Flip4Mac now Free
It appears that Microsoft bought or made some kind of a deal with Flip4Mac as it appears that they are releasing Flip4Mac through their website for free.
This is awesome news. WMP was not too good, and they don't have to spend time with a new version. Just distribute it as a QT plug-in and be done with it. They should have done this a long time ago.
One question: do you need Safari to play .wma and .wmv content on your browser, or does it work with any browser?
This is awesome news. WMP was not too good, and they don't have to spend time with a new version. Just distribute it as a QT plug-in and be done with it. They should have done this a long time ago.
One question: do you need Safari to play .wma and .wmv content on your browser, or does it work with any browser?
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Originally posted by Gene Clean
It appears that Microsoft bought or made some kind of a deal with Flip4Mac as it appears that they are releasing Flip4Mac through their website for free.
This is awesome news. WMP was not too good, and they don't have to spend time with a new version. Just distribute it as a QT plug-in and be done with it. They should have done this a long time ago.
One question: do you need Safari to play .wma and .wmv content on your browser, or does it work with any browser?
Indeed good news. Overall, this has been an amazing day.
I'm not trying to dog free software, but is it supposed to be this bad? At least we can now play WMVs in something other than Windows Media Player, and we now have a way to export WMVs to our video iPods. Hopefully Microsoft can work with them and make it a little better.
Originally posted by bborofka
It seems to crash Safari and QuickTime Player with every WMV I play (Safari 2.0.3, Quicktime 7.0.4). It also doesn't seem very well integrated with QuickTime... I have to select "WMV Player" from the Open With menu, instead of just "QuickTime Player". WMVs can also take a very long time to open, and they don't always look as good as they do in Windows Media Player.
It does crash QuickTime, but only when you close it. So it's tolerable so far. They'll fix it, I'm sure.
You can Get Info on one of the files you want to play and tell it to play all files of that nature in WMV Player (QuickTime basically). They should automagically play in QuickTime from then on.
Uninstalled.
Going back to the earlier version (1.0.2) which seemed fine under 10.4.4.
hell, that's actually a philosophy i can get behind.
Originally posted by m01ety
It's incompatible with the very latest point update to QuickTime (from a few days ago) -- hence the crashing. They're aware of the problem and are working on a fix.
The fixed has been posted. It seems to have done the trick.
Originally posted by Mr. Me
The fixed has been posted. It seems to have done the trick.
Mine is still crashing when I close a video. I have the latest Quicktime and just downloaded and installed the latest Flip4Mac.
Edit: Sorry, I didn't get 2.0.1, I had downloaded 2.0. Now it works.
Go by www.dailyshow.com and see if you can get their clips to work. I can´t. It doesn´t load anything for me
Originally posted by Anders
For those who has it installed:
Go by www.dailyshow.com and see if you can get their clips to work. I can´t. It doesn´t load anything for me
Comedy Central seems to have lots of traffic. My guess is that the server is overloaded.
Originally posted by Anders
For those who has it installed:
Go by www.dailyshow.com and see if you can get their clips to work. I can´t. It doesn´t load anything for me
Everything I try get the same -2048 error. Locally, on my iBook, i get tons of dropped frames. I sure hope Microsoft help them program this so it doesn't suck.
Also, you still can't watch MSNBC because Windows Media 10 isn't supported. Is Microsoft trying to lock-out Mac's from digital media?