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Universal Flip4Mac coming soon (Today!)
People who want to play Windows Media files on their Intel Macs can rejoice, eventually. That's right, Telestream, the makers of the very cool Flip4Mac which enables Quicktime to play Windows Media files, have posted a note on their website. It basically says that they are working on a Universal Binary and they hope to release it within the next few weeks.Update: The real story here is that the Universal version of Flip4Mac (2.1) is available from Microsoft right now. Go forth and download. Thanks, Andy!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Neil Christie said 8:35PM on 7-27-2006
This is around a month old. They must be getting close now.
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Jorge Asch said 8:41PM on 7-27-2006
The beta works really good...
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Fra said 8:45PM on 7-27-2006
Damn Scott, I was just thinking that, you stole my thoughts!
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Cletus said 8:48PM on 7-27-2006
there is nothing more stale than yesterdays (last months) news.
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Scott McNulty said 8:48PM on 7-27-2006
Damn it, Fra! You found me out! And, hey, anyone notice that TUAW really sucks as of late? ;)
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Daniel D said 9:06PM on 7-27-2006
They have been taking the piss with this. I know nothing about how long it takes to makethis stuff but they have been taking their sweet ass time. I am soooo glad someone leaked the beta of this other wise well... I would have to wait longer and bitch about it on the internet.
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tydes said 9:07PM on 7-27-2006
I've been going back there every few days waiting for that download.
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Andy said 9:57PM on 7-27-2006
Maybe you guys didn't notice but the Uni WMV components are up on MS's site at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=915D874D-D747-4180-A400-5F06B1B5E559&displaylang=en
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Shane said 10:00PM on 7-27-2006
Waiting waiting waiting... I think thats been there for a good 2 months. Hardly news worthy. Where did you get the beta from? I would love to demo it...
shane
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kongfused said 10:30PM on 7-27-2006
Looks like Microsoft has it posted here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
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Kyle M. said 12:21AM on 7-28-2006
Come on Scott, you stole that off of my blog! News can only be on one blog! Jeeze, I hate TUAW!
For those of you that dont know, Im joking!
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Bryan said 1:03AM on 7-28-2006
How is it that Parallels Desktop was developed and SHIPPED in far less time than it took F4M to make a universal binary?
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Jon said 1:12AM on 7-28-2006
"How is it that Parallels Desktop was developed and SHIPPED in far less time than it took F4M to make a universal binary?"
I don't think you can compare the development times of two completely different pieces of software.
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The Truthbearer said 3:00AM on 7-28-2006
Funny thing is the official version still is screwy on so many sites. Kinda shoddy workmanship on this software....
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Chris G. said 6:47AM on 7-28-2006
Just a FYI, this appears to be a slightly newer build of the beta compared to the one that came out a month or two ago. So this is newsworthy.
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kissthering said 8:56AM on 7-28-2006
well it's about time, now where is my non-buggy intel/universal ac3 and a52 codecs
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