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Title: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: th.Sentinel on January 12, 2006, 07:28:14 pm According to one of my favorite mac-sites, Microsoft decided to quit developping their Media Player for Mac OS X.
Don't think that we won't be able to play wmv's anymore. Microsoft bought a company called 'Flip4Mac'. This company made a plug-in so you could watch wmv's in quicktime. With their free trial you were able to watch half of your movie. Now that Microsoft bought it it is available for free. You can still buy the full-version which will let you convert wmv's into other formats. But at least you can watch your movie. Download Link (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/flip4mac.mspx) Be advised: there have been complaints about the compatibility with OS X 10.4.4 and Quicktime 7.0.4. If you haven't updated to the new versions yet, you won't have any problems. But if you have, it is better to wait untill they release a 10.4.4 (QT 7.0.4) version. Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: BFG on January 12, 2006, 08:21:29 pm Flip4mac is great, just in case your wondering about getting it, i dumped WMP ages ago for a copy of flip4mac and have never booted WMP since! :D
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: :MoD:Shade on January 12, 2006, 08:29:01 pm Woot, bout time.
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: BFG on January 12, 2006, 08:43:55 pm btway you don't have to go to windows website... try http://www.flip4mac.com/ - more info plus diff copies available like Pro HD version :D
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: :MoD:Shade on January 12, 2006, 08:58:26 pm I've got a problem with viewing movies then going hitting the < arrow key in safari to go back, it crashes safari.
It was a movie on ebaums - dunno if it's just that site or what. Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: BFG on January 12, 2006, 09:29:17 pm hmm, try a different site. what version of quicktime you using? what version of safari? etc etc
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: BTs_Mysterio on January 12, 2006, 09:38:43 pm Flip still has a lot of problems doing streams inside of Safari. I hope either WMP does another release [as in when IE mac was reborn to die in beta] or flip gets much better.
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: Civrock on January 12, 2006, 09:46:57 pm Flip4Mac 2.0.1 is out.
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: :MoD:Shade on January 13, 2006, 03:38:08 am I got the Flip4Mac version 2.0.1
I've got Safari 2.0.2 Quicktime 7.0.4 Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: BFG on January 13, 2006, 10:10:52 am very odd im having no problems... not quite sure what to suggest mate other than sending your logs to fip4mac
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: Ethion on January 13, 2006, 05:52:54 pm Flip still has a lot of problems doing streams inside of Safari. I hope either WMP does another release [as in when IE mac was reborn to die in beta] or flip gets much better. They won't make another upgrade at all. They are stopping productions on it, as of their new five year contract with Messenger and office. And I certainly hope they won't try and make another release of it. would be better if they helped Flip4mac instead. Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: BTs_Mysterio on January 13, 2006, 06:38:14 pm As a side note, it hasn't worked on my G5 since 10.4....
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: PandabeaR on January 20, 2006, 06:35:54 pm Ahem... Yes, they bought flip4mac and made it free. As to where before unless u payed, it only played half of the wmv in Quicktime. But i dont know if this means we dont get anymore more WMP.
So we should be happy about this ::applause:: good job microsoft, you did something RIGHT! Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: th.Sentinel on January 21, 2006, 01:15:15 pm New update out that corrects the problems with QT 7.0.4.
Title: Re: No more Windows Media Player for Mac OS X Post by: Civrock on January 21, 2006, 07:52:54 pm New update out that corrects the problems with QT 7.0.4. The update to 2.0.1 is over a week old and has been posted about a few posts above yours. ;) |