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DESCRIPTION
Flip4Mac WMV Player... With the Windows Media Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a web browser.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.3.0.14:
- The installer also includes a browser plug-in for Microsoft Silverlight, which allows you to play Smooth Streaming video content. This is installed by default. To disable its installation, click the Customize button on the Installation Type pane and uncheck the Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in option.
- Added support for Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
- Audio encoding and decoding is now handled by CoreAudio.
- Components now support multi-threaded applications.
- Added 64-bit support to the WebKit plugin and the Flip4Mac WMV Preference Pane.
- Opening WMV files from the Finder now finds the latest version of QuickTime Player.
- While support for the latest OS is good news, we'd like you to be aware of some changes in Snow Leopard that affect Flip4Mac WMV (see Flip4Mac WMV FAQs for more details):
- QuickTime Player X has removed export functionality to all formats other than standard Apple formats, including WMV. If you need this functionality, Apple continues to provide QuickTime Player 7.
- In Safari 4, Flip4Mac WMV runs with limited functionality.
- Safari 4 now runs in 64-bit mode by default, which causes Flip4Mac WMV to run with limited functionality. However, you have the option to run Safari in 32-bit mode.
- Local files now import in the background by default so that your movie is available for viewing almost immediately. If you prefer the previous behavior, this can be changed on a per-application basis in Flip4Mac WMV by going to System Preferences > Flip4Mac WMV > Player and clicking the Advanced button.
- Fixed bug that prevented ASX streams from playing in Firefox 3.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- QuickTime v 7.0 and later (for Free Player)
- QuickTime Pro v7.0 and later (for exporting movies in Player Pro, Studio, Studio Pro and Studio Pro HD)
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| Flip4Mac WMV Player User Reviews (177 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 13 2009 |
ZIPO13 ahhhh - nothing like adding crapware (silverlight) to a software. At least they say how you can not isntall it.
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| Oct 16 2009 |
ILGAZ Good thing about still having Mac PPC is, MS didn't have decency and/or capability to code Silverlight 2 for PPC so PPC owners doesn't get Silverlight installed with this thing. Still flaming Adobe? At least they can and will maintain Flash with PPC code no matter how hard it is.
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 | Oct 16 2009 |
MEDUSA Still not 64-bit (PreferencePane) and sneaky push of SilverLight Software
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| Oct 16 2009 |
KIT WALKER In the What's new, they say : "Added 64-bit support to the WebKit plugin and the Flip4Mac WMV Preference Pane" Is it true or not ?
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| Oct 15 2009 |
JAMUS The Silverlight installation gets a star drop right from the start, which is too bad overall considering the Flip4Mac software is useful sometimes for when clients send over a dreadful WMV file, but the inclusion of Silverlight is not welcome. It is nice that Telestream does tell us about the Silverlight inclusion during the install (although most users will never actually read it), it is disappointing to see it added in to the install. If we wanted Silverlight we would install it ourselves. I wonder if Telestream is being forced/pressured by Microsoft to include Silverlight in their default install?
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| Oct 16 2009 |
ILGAZ I wonder what will happen when Silverlight, part of MS culture gets some "remote execution" security issue. Will the team at MS who still have face to ship that performance/security disaster named MS Windows Media Player to Intel macs give up all work in hand and ship a security update for OS X which shows their every attempt as joke? This is a company who managed to ship MS Office latest version installed as user 502, traditionally no power, secondary account on OS X and people pay huge amount of money to them for it. Silverlight on the other hand, is "free". Not a political thing, rather a technical thing since I know how MS works (like most do), I would opt out of Silverlight even if my Mac was supported. I don't allow it even to my Windows machines/managed clients since it is a really needless failed attempt to kill Adobe flash and nothing else. Even MS joint ventures doesn't use it.
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| Oct 15 2009 |
JIMSANDER This installer "helpfully" installs the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in. There's no option. Sorry, not interested. Maybe later I'll "Show Package Contents" and selectively install only the parts I really want.
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| Oct 15 2009 |
JIMSANDER OK, silly me - I missed the checkbox in the "installation type" - saves me a bit of trouble. That will teach me to read comments before posting. :)
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| Oct 15 2009 |
ICONZ113 during the install process you can click customize and deselect the silverlight installation
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| Oct 16 2009 |
ILGAZ You could have easily missed it since it defaults to ON and carefully buried under "customize" which no OS X user uses. They really know nobody will click Customize and that is why they default to ON rather than OFF. Another issue with installer is, it "phones home" by needlessly embedding remote images from MS web server in "success" screen. When I got some time, I will sure alert Apple about this potential abuse of Installer/Webkit integration. If we had REAL security experts and non snake oil AV companies, it is their job to alert their customers and Apple about such ABUSE of Installer.app.
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 | Oct 15 2009 |
DJCZ There is a bug in the installer. If your account is Filevaulted, the installer squawks that it can't find a needed disk. It then sits there patiently waiting, but there is nothing you can do and it won't let you quit normally, so you need to force quit the installer application. Please insert the "xyz" disc to continue installation. You have chosen to install software that requires this disc.
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| Oct 15 2009 |
SJK Moving the installer package out of the FileVault volume is a workaround described in this Knowledgebase article. http://www.telestream.net/telestream-support/knowledge-base/kb-0083.htm
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| Oct 15 2009 |
DJCZ I've never seen an installer behave like that, but the workaround did the trick..... silly me, for not taking an hour or so, to search the knowledgebase for a problem that shouldn't have occurred in the first place. But, I do appreciate the response. Thank you!
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| Oct 15 2009 |
SJK I'd noticed that FileVault issue/workaround somewhere else a few hours earlier when installing the update, then was frustrated not to find it again after seeing your post. Fortunately it was an easy search for that KB article instead. :)
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| Oct 16 2009 |
ILGAZ If one uses Apple's standard installer, it is his job to "workaround" some issue (!) which is in fact the built in functionality of OS X since 10.3 or .4. No need to apologize, they should care about such issues more than sneaking silverlight and remotely pulling images from MS servers in success screens.
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| Oct 15 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART Wow, this looks like a monumental overhaul on Telestream's part to make this nifty (and to me, indispensable) utility work with Snow Leopard. Reading the changes they were forced to make to deal with 32 vs. 64 bit issues, I think they did all they could to maximize functionality of the program. Too bad QuickTime X doesn't support non-Apple formats, but at least QuickTime 7 still available. Although some might protest, the Silverlight support is also welcome to this user, since some sites require it, and frankly, I've never had any problem with it on my machine, and they give the option of not installing if you want. The bottom line for me is that it's working great on my machine, within the limitations of the whole 32 bit vs 64 bit issues that so many developers are having to deal with now. Hats off to Telestream for a remarkably powerful program that gives a heck of a lot of functionality for *free.*
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| Sep 22 2009 |
HRYCIUK Not happy with the inclusion of silverlight.
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| Oct 15 2009 |
ORION MK. V Just disable it during installation.
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| Oct 15 2009 |
MATTHEW GREEN agreed, one bespoke Microsoft technology on my Mac is enough for me
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| Sep 21 2009 |
ILGAZ They forgot to post this to "What's new?' and IMHO they should be carefully watched by Macupdate admins in the future. "This installer also includes a browser plug-in for Microsoft® Silverlight™, which allows you to play Smooth Streaming video content. This is installed by default. To disable its installation, click the Customize button on the Installation Type pane and uncheck the Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in option." They should also add "We abuse Apple's installer.app architecture so each time final screen appears, our application phones home via pulling a remote webpage". Guys, I come from Windows land and this is something we had to deal in 2001-2003 period. We should all raise our voices against this kind of treatment or, serious, OS X will be really really infested. Speaking from experience, these are first steps...
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 | Sep 20 2009 |
JIMBLU to get rid of silverlight the two things to delete are HD/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin and HD/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Silverlight
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| Sep 20 2009 |
NOOKSTER +1 Smiley for you, a simple task for those that didn't pay attention to the installer. I'm surprised that I my post below yours (regarding the truth about both MS and Apple's installer tactics) isn't -10 though, maybe there's more common sense around here than I give this place credit for.
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