Goodbye, WMP for Mac OS X

Has anyone had better luck with the new version (v2.0.1) which was released in the last 12-24 hours?

Flip4Mac IS stable with 2.0.1 QT 7.0.4 created a conflict which was easily found and fixed. MS is NOT in charge of Flip4Mac engineering. There are a bunch of darn good engineers at Telestream who make every effort to produce the kind of product we all want with media processing on the Mac. The support side of the company is just as motivated to solve problems, and have everyone satisfied.

If anybody has issues, you must send them an email detailing your problem or request, and they will respond asap...usually within the same day:
http://www.flip4mac.com/request.htm

If you've got a site that won't stream properly, forward that to them. There are tons of different protocols, formats and network varieties, so it's gonna take a little time to cover all those bases.

WMP sucked ass anyway. I haven't used it in a long time, I just stay well clear of any WMA/WMV files altogether.

Actually, I tried viewing Billy G's keynote for a laugh, but after about 5 minutes of intro music and constant stuttering and rebuffering on a 2Mb DSL line, I remembered why I hate WMP so much.

Cheers;
Poncho

For one, this sucks for me. I just recently bought flip4mac. Its only $10 but it still ticks me off. Two, flip4mac does not play absolutely everything the official player does. So I really don't think they should have killed WMP for OSX. How can we be sure WMP 11 media will play with flip4mac too? Meh, I saw the trend so I'm not that surprised. I'm sure they'd kill the messenger if it wasn't somewhat tied to Entourage. Maybe they will soon once they realize 2 people total use it. Adium all the way!

I am just sad that I can't stream NPR with Flip4MAC anymore. That did it for me and I immediately uninstalled it and went back to the old WMP.

Every movie I've seen looked ok in the Quicktime Player itself... but using Camino, CNN streaming was very odd. The streaming signal was playing about 1/2 an inch too low, so the lower portion of the of the video flickered and generally looked like garbage.

By the way... the current beta of Camino blows away Firefox on the Mac.

Ahh yes, the ever awful, sputtering, skipping or not playing movies at all Windows Media Player, which was developed thanks to the open patent agreement between apple & microsoft from '97 to '02. They get the idea & technology from Apple Quicktime, then flood the internet & PCs with their inferior version making it the standard, then stop making it for Macs. And people ask why I hate Microsoft so much?
No Class, stinking dork f**ks. Here's to hoping in the near future Apple releases a version of Mac that runs on PCs & seriously hurts Windows markershare. And here's to Bill gates going blind, deaf & becoming a paraplegic.

works on my albook, 10.3.9, using safari on limited tests (i viewed a few movies found on yahoo). on cnn, i did get audio, but no video. can't say i'm very surprised about the announcement, wmp hasn't been updated since '03. at least there are no crashes.

you need to uninstall wmp first to avoid that problems

Calm down! A 2.0.1 update will fix current QuickTime crashes very soon.

You will find it at http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm