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Flip4Mac WMV tool launches public beta of v3

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 7th, 2012)

Mac owners who work in a Windows environment know how difficult it can be to play a Windows Media file on their laptop. One popular solution that lets customers play and edit a WMV/WMA file is Flip4Mac, a QuickTime component that is developed by Telestream and supported and hosted by ...

iMovie, other non-Apple QuickTime components updated

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 26th, 2010)

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Aperture 3.0.2 update, Apple has released iMovie 8.0.6. The update improves reliability when working with videos from Aperture and requires Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later and iLife '09. The update weighs in at 35.84 MB and is available via the download link above or ...

Flip4Mac 2.1.1.70 adds Windows Media 9 Advanced playback

by Mat Lu (Apr 30th, 2007)

The essential QuickTime plugin for playing Windows Media files, Flip4Mac, has been updated. In addition to bug fixes, etc., the new beta version 2.1.1.70 adds the significant improvement of support for Windows Media 9 Advanced playback. If you've been running into incompatibilities with a favorite ...

Get 35% off Flip4Mac

by Brian Liloia (Mar 6th, 2007)

Ok, so for whatever reason you just need to have the ability to encode darling little WMVs on your Mac, Flip4Mac is probably the way you'll want to go, and macZOT! makes the encoding software more appealing with a nice 35% off discount. The full-fledged Flip4Mac WMV Studio package typically runs ...

Universal Flip4Mac coming soon (Today!)

by Scott McNulty (Jul 27th, 2006)

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 ...

Flip4Mac begins beta testing Universal Binary WMV QuickTime components

by David Chartier (Jun 5th, 2006)

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 ...

Goodbye, WMP for Mac OS X

by Dave Caolo (Jan 12th, 2006)

Yesterday, we wrote about the extraordinary generosity that Microsoft displayed by distributing the Flip4Mac player available for free. Flip4Mac is a tool that allows you to play WMV files with Quicktime. Before you get a warm fuzzy for Microsoft, check this out: They've suspended development of ...

Microsoft offers Flip4Mac for free

by Scott McNulty (Jan 11th, 2006)

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 ...