Filed under: Macworld, Software, Video
Microsoft offers Flip4Mac for free
Flip4Mac is a plugin for Quicktime that allows you to watch Windows
Media files in Quicktime itself, and that's pretty cool. However, what is even cooler is that this great little plugin
is now available for free thanks to Microsoft.You read that correctly, Microsoft is freely distributing Flip4Mac thought they are only offering the viewer, if you want to create WMV files in Quicktime you'll still need to pony up the cash.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
arkowi said 12:17PM on 1-11-2006
those rat bastards.
i just bought it like a week ago.
frack.
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Neil said 12:19PM on 1-11-2006
Lucky me, I was gonna buy it but then this came along =)
Still no WM10 though :(
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CyBeR said 12:33PM on 1-11-2006
" if you want to create WMV files in Quicktime you'll still need to pony up the cash."
Well, luckily there is no legitimate reason to want to encode WMA or WMV, so we're all good o/
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Machine said 12:42PM on 1-11-2006
I can't believe I'm saying this but... way to go Microsoft?
(I feel so dirty)
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Chris Meisenzahl said 12:44PM on 1-11-2006
Very cool, I'll grab it tonight. The only thing worse than Windows Media Player on the Mac is RealPlayer anywhere! ;-)
Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/Very cool, I'll grab it tonight. The only thing worse than Windows Media Player on the Mac is RealPlayer anywhere! ;-)
Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/
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Dan said 12:45PM on 1-11-2006
Wow. Now everyone can screw up their WindowsMedia settings for free!
To be fair, I couldn't be bothered to fiddle with it. I probably could have gotten it to work if I had worked on it a while.
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Marc Melkonian said 12:48PM on 1-11-2006
Currently is not working with QT 7.0.4. TeleStream (who make Flip4Mac) is aware of this issue.
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LD said 12:56PM on 1-11-2006
Haha. Just released and it doesn't work. Sounds like MS :)
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Samuel McConnell said 12:58PM on 1-11-2006
Oh my. Microsoft, doing something not-so-evil? :o
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codeman38 said 1:01PM on 1-11-2006
For what it's worth, you also need to pony up the money if you want to export WMV to any other format; the free plugin only does playing, not transcoding.
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Christian said 1:18PM on 1-11-2006
Working very well on 10.4.4 with QT 7.0.4!
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Brandon M said 1:36PM on 1-11-2006
Last I checked Microsoft does not make flip4mac. They just provided a download on its website. If you would bother to go to their website you would see that they are offering it free, not microsoft.
Sucks too, i just bought it a while back! Oh well...
Still kicks ass. the new version lets you save movies in webpages just like qt.
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fra said 1:39PM on 1-11-2006
the Windows Media Player on OSX is old and I'm happy MS knew that, Since there formal with Apple now, they have to please us.
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Billy K said 1:46PM on 1-11-2006
Two weeks after I paid for it.
Will Microsoft send me a refund, ya htink?
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pdh1978 said 2:14PM on 1-11-2006
This crashes Safari every time I try to play a .wmv within the browser.
Also, out of curiosity, does anyone know why Apple have provided a Quicktime 7.0.1 reinstaller?
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/quicktime701reinstallerforquicktime704.html
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jonas said 2:58PM on 1-11-2006
#2, wm10 isn't a codec. it's just the latest player (for windows). windows media 9 is the latest encoder series.
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stainboy said 3:30PM on 1-11-2006
actually, if you now go to Flip4Mac's site, you can get the free download. they have a new version in their lineup--a $30 version that only imports. the $50 version both imports and exports WMV.
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Guilhas said 3:51PM on 1-11-2006
Nice piece of sh..!
Works ok until you stop a wmv file, that's when QT crashes!!!
(10.3.9 + QT 7.0.4)
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John said 4:16PM on 1-11-2006
Guilhas, the same thing is happening to me too! Howcome more people are not complaining about it or is it just a bug for certain people?
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Andres said 4:32PM on 1-11-2006
This doesn't work for me. When i try to oen a .WMV file a popup says:
"QuickTime cannot open the file.
It is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/cayayofm/screenshot2.jpg
Looks like i'll be staying with WMP...
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