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Flip4Mac begins beta testing Universal Binary WMV QuickTime components
For Intel Mac users who either love or hate WMV but have to deal with it one way or another, Flip4Mac has just begun beta testing the long-awaited Universal Binary version of their WMV QuickTime components. Announced in their forums today, it is more or less an invite-yourself program, as I had to contact them weeks ago to get on their email announcement list.After briefly testing on my MacBook Pro, it seems like everything is working just fine. I'm able to play embedded WMV files with no problem, but I unfortunately don't have any locally saved WMV's to try at the moment. So far, the beta seems like a success, and while I hate the WMV format just as much as the next Mac user, it's nice to no longer receive that 'plug-in not found' error.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jack Burton said 5:19PM on 6-05-2006
Has anyone spotted the download elsewhere? Emails are going unreturned :
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matt said 5:25PM on 6-05-2006
here is a link to the .dmg that way you dont have to be on the beta list
http://nicklin.us/Flip4Mac_WMV_v2_1_0_24.dmg
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Quentin said 5:26PM on 6-05-2006
If I can get XM radio to work on my MBP using this, then I will be happy as a lark. Anyone who is beta testing, please drop some info.
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ChillyWilly said 5:35PM on 6-05-2006
'bout damn time. I really want to dump this stand alone, non-web integrated Windows Media Player.
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Jack Burton said 5:50PM on 6-05-2006
Thanks Matt.
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brian said 6:01PM on 6-05-2006
thanks matt! both embedded and downloaded files are working on my macbook.
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heat said 6:03PM on 6-05-2006
needs an option to make embedded videos FULL SCREEN ahh,,good program
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Gustavo said 6:07PM on 6-05-2006
Does it work with Windows Media Video 11? Or is just WMV 9 like the player for Mac from Microsoft?
Gus
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Ryan said 6:27PM on 6-05-2006
Thanks Matt. Works perfectly!!
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lapblisters said 7:24PM on 6-05-2006
It crashes in Firefox and Camino. Seems to work in Safari.
Anyone tried popwire?
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Rob Roark said 8:13PM on 6-05-2006
#10, you need to log out and log back in for it to work in most browsers.
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lapblisters said 8:17PM on 6-05-2006
I rebooted after installing the components.
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Daniel D said 8:40PM on 6-05-2006
`Matt I could kiss you! they have annoyed me so long with their crap about taking so long and stupid reasons on the forums its frustrating and now they have this beta crap where you have to sign up. You have made me very happy!
Also reporting that it works fine (so far) on my Intel core duro 17" imac
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iband said 10:33PM on 6-05-2006
Works great - Quentin - the XM widget works great with this so far! Much better than my previous iBook. MacBook and XM - what a great combination.
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Bryan said 1:06AM on 6-06-2006
#7: in the flip4mac pref pane, if you click "Launch QuickTime Player", the video will be launched in an external qt window instead of embedded in the browser. at that point you can make your qt window full screen. bit of a work around, but it works!
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paul said 1:27AM on 6-06-2006
Does anybody have another download link? The one given in comment #2 doesn't seem to work anymore.
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Pollibus said 5:43AM on 6-06-2006
try this at home!
http://rapidshare.de/files/223...WMV_v2_1_0_24.dmg.html
Pollibus
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Peter Adkins said 7:00AM on 6-06-2006
A big bummer! It automatically closes the browser window when loading a WMV movie in Safari or Firefox.
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Sigsegv said 2:57PM on 6-06-2006
D'oh! It's gone from the link in #17 now. Anyone got another link?
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tavdog said 4:21PM on 6-06-2006
somebody upload it usenet or something? download links are not surviving.
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