Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.14 for Mac

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Price: Free
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Date added: October 15, 2009
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CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars
Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 11 votes
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Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on November 16, 2009

Most PCs can handle QuickTime videos, but playback for Windows Media (WMV) files on a Mac isn't always predictable. Flip4Mac WMV is a free collection of QuickTime components that lets you play WMV and Microsoft Silverlight files on your Mac, either through QuickTime Player or right in your browser. You can also pay to upgrade Flip4Mac for more advanced WMV features, such as importing, exporting, and creating encoding profiles, which integrate with other QuickTime applications like Final Cut Pro.

If you just want to play videos, you only need the free Flip4Mac WMV Player. Flip4Mac then installs plug-ins that let you play Windows Media streams and Silverlight media in Safari and other browsers. (You can also customize your installation if you don't want to install Silverlight.) You can change your settings in the Flip4Mac preference pane later, but for the most part this app's functionality is invisible once installed, with playback in your browser that's nearly indistinguishable from QuickTime.

Flip4Mac isn't perfect--for example, it can't play Windows Media Digital Rights Management, and it hasn't fully made the jump to handle Safari's default 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard. But if you ever visit the growing number of sites that use WMV and Silverlight (such as Netflix and its Watch Instantly titles), Flip4Mac gives you a free, easy way to watch videos on those sites.

Publisher's description

From Telestream :

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.

The Windows Media Components for QuickTime have been highly optimized and support playback of Windows Media HD.

What's new in this version:

Added support for Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard. 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 functionali... see all new features

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Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 11 votes
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4 stars

Version: Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.14

"does what it is supposed to do"

by john hartscroft on November 15, 2009

Pros: works fine

Cons: Nothing that I
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Summary: does its job

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4 stars

Version: Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.14

"Works for me, but my needs are minimal"

by elcondew on November 11, 2009

Pros: It is just there, doing what it is meant to do.

Cons: I've not found anything that I don't like about Flip4Mac.

Summary: I don't need to worry about whether a video is PC-based or not. Isn't that what we want from our software?

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3 stars

Version: Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.14

"For viewing PC-related video files not covered by OS-X."

by Jules Black on November 3, 2009

Pros: It relieves the frustrations of Mac people who should be able to anything graphical but who were unable to view various PC-related video file formats.

Cons: Nil I I have found.

Summary: A helpful, almost necessary arrow in our quiver to help Macs read anything graphical from the PC world.

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4 stars

Version: Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.14

"works fine"

by habo.jongsma on October 31, 2009

Pros: no problems sofar

Cons: no cons encountered yet

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5 stars

Version: Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.14

"It works for me and that is what counts!"

by KarinCobb on October 27, 2009

Pros: When you consider that 90% of the web is based on the Windows systems, this does come in handy.

Cons: Some people have problems installing it; I have not.

Summary: It is needed, in my humble opinion.

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