Well I have a tablet computer and on certain websites you can purchase some movies for download and a page appears with a link to a file in .wmv format and it says to right-click it for download to your computer and select Save Target As to download it onto your computer but when I tap it a message says right-click and select Save Target As however I have a tablet which is a Lenovo TB-7104F with a GBoard keyboard on the screen and you can only tap the screen and there is no way to do a right-click at all. Now does anyone here know how to do a right-click on a tablet if it is even possible and if I can download a .wmv file directly to it? Also it recommends Mozilla Firefox if I was to download Mozilla Firefox would it be necessary to use a Google Account and would it help to download it and I don’t have Windows Media Player either so what software would I use to play it on the tablet and things like these?
If you tap and hold on the link, do you get a popup of options?
I assume there is some kind of Android OS on your tablet? Tap and hold wmv link in your browser. Then chose “Share - Copy to.” Or send it to your gmail or google drive, if you have an account.
Tap and hold, and a menu should appear. Select “download link”.
As others have said, long press should bring up right-click menu options. However, doesn’t directly tapping the link allow you to direct the movie?
What is recommending Firefox and what is it recommending it for? It might help if you mentioned what site or app you’re trying to download the movie from.
Didn’t your tablet come pre-installed with a media player? You can go to Google Play store and search for free media players.
I would very much be wary of any file that has a wmv extension. Mp4 or MkV is your safest bet
The best free media player for a lot of devices, IMHO, is VLC. It does have an official version for Android (which is your OS, BTW). There are some better ones but those are free crappy ad crippled ones that require payment to get the good “pro” version. Note that there are a ton of apps with similar names out there that you don’t want anywhere near your device. Make sure you get the official one. Link below.
You can download the app directly from the web site* if for some reason you are averse to the Google Play Store. (I avoid it as much as possible but I’m far from a n00b. So how I do it is not recommended for the naive.)
Finally, if you are so inexperienced that you are asking these questions, you may want to rethink clicking and downloading on such movie links. Esp. ones that have the .wmv extension. (You’d normally see .mkv, .mp4, .avi (!) instead.)
- Link. Look for the “download APK” link.
Why?
There’s a system setup up my MS in its media player to deal with DRM issues. One aspect of this is that a URL can be embedded and then a pop-up or some such to ask you to download a codec or some such to play the video.
So malware writers have exploited this to provide a misleading thing that they hope you will click on and thus open a malware installing site. (Other things involving MS’s media player and/or .wmvs like reporting what videos you watch are worrisome.)
A player like VLC tries to self-contain a lot of the most common codecs so you don’t need to worry about this most of the time.
(Keep in mind that .wmv, like a lot of formats, doesn’t use just a single codec. So the extension often tells you little about the encoding and what codec might be needed.)