(ANN) Universal Flip4Mac shipped

Hi,

They shipped final version. Get from:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/17787

I think this is finally the time to completely get rid of windows media
player (on 10.3.9+ OS X) which does already have problems with Tiger.

Not just universal, what's new includes:
Version 2.1:
>>> ¥ Added universal binary support for Intel Macs
>>> ¥ Added playback optimizations for Intel Macs
>>> ¥ Added significant export optimizations for PowerPC Macs
>>> ¥ Added multi language audio support in player
>>> ¥ Added overlay when importing WMV content in trial mode
>>> ¥ Added support for web authors to disable "save as" feature in web browser
>>> ¥ Improved support for MMS servers and live streams
>>> ¥ Fixed DCT Blocking issue (progressive deterioration with increasing
>>> distance from previous keyframe)
>>> ¥ Fixed encode errors when the audio bit rate is set higher than the
>>> video bit rate. Ê

Also as a side note, it didn't need admin password while upgrading this
time. Perhaps it doesn't need in fresh install too?

If that is the case, it will stop needless discussions/accusations
which are deserved by DivX people in fact. They are the ones who want
us to grant "browser toolbar" installation.

Have a nice day

Ilgaz

In article <>,
Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> They shipped final version. Get from:
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842
> http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/17787
>
> I think this is finally the time to completely get rid of windows
> media player (on 10.3.9+ OS X) which does already have problems with
> Tiger.

I've had good results with Flip4Mac on my G4 iBook. It's basically
transparent and I find that the Quicktime player works better than WMP
ever did on my computers. Apple should just buy this and install it by
default.

> Also as a side note, it didn't need admin password while upgrading
> this time. Perhaps it doesn't need in fresh install too?

That's odd. Did it come as a .pkg file?

On 2006-07-28 15:33:47 +0300, Tim McNamara <> said:

> In article <>,
> Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> They shipped final version. Get from:
>> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842
>> http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/17787
>>
>> I think this is finally the time to completely get rid of windows media
>> player (on 10.3.9+ OS X) which does already have problems with Tiger.
>
> I've had good results with Flip4Mac on my G4 iBook. It's basically
> transparent and I find that the Quicktime player works better than WMP
> ever did on my computers. Apple should just buy this and install it by
> default.

In fact Microsoft bought their universal license.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...omponents.mspx
Previously you had to pay $10 to those folks to run their stuff instead
of buggy wmedia player. I mean if you came to a point to delete one
programs prefs to make it function normal, it is buggy and not
compatible with OS. It is my plain end user rule anyway

>
>> Also as a side note, it didn't need admin password while upgrading this
>> time. Perhaps it doesn't need in fresh install too?
>
> That's odd. Did it come as a .pkg file?

It came as wmediacomponents.pkg , yes a pkg file. Perhaps they need to
change something at fresh install and not in upgrade? Well perhaps I
identified myself to system recently and forgot about it? It still have
some "timeout" before asking for password again.

Well as I said before, company is clean. I am sure MS also reviewed the
source line by line before distributing and paying for universal
license.

There is another company , I just hope Apple never allows "browser
toolbars" in Safari in future.

Ilgaz

In article <>,
Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:

>
> There is another company , I just hope Apple never allows "browser
> toolbars" in Safari in future.
>

Speaking of which, I set up F4M and everything, but when I try to run
video feeds whilst browsing in Safari (most specifically CNN's) I get an
error message that says it is looking for WMP 9 and gives me a link to
download it. Do I need to do something to let Safari know that F4M is
there or is this just CNN not being up to speed?

In article
<kurtullman-
>,
Kurt Ullman <> wrote:

> In article <>,
> Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:
>
> > There is another company , I just hope Apple never allows "browser
> > toolbars" in Safari in future.
>
> Speaking of which, I set up F4M and everything, but when I try to run
> video feeds whilst browsing in Safari (most specifically CNN's) I get
> an error message that says it is looking for WMP 9 and gives me a
> link to download it. Do I need to do something to let Safari know
> that F4M is there or is this just CNN not being up to speed?

I can see CNN's videos with F4M and Camino (but not the NYT's, IIRC,
which demands MSIE, Netscape or Firefox). Have you tried logging out
and logging back in again? Sometimes that updates something or other to
make software work. If that doesn't work, try restarting. If *that*
doesn't work, you need advice from someone smarter than me.

On 2006-07-28 19:47:19 +0300, Kurt Ullman <> said:

> In article <>,
> Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:
>
>>
>> There is another company , I just hope Apple never allows "browser
>> toolbars" in Safari in future.
>>
>
> Speaking of which, I set up F4M and everything, but when I try to
> run video feeds whilst browsing in Safari (most specifically CNN's) I
> get an error message that says it is looking for WMP 9 and gives me a
> link to download it. Do I need to do something to let Safari know that
> F4M is there or is this just CNN not being up to speed?

In fact CNN webmaster must do changes to browser sniffing code it seems.

If you check
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/plugins_detail.html

You will see it reports to the host as "I can handle these files" if
flip4mac installed.

I think it is best to send feedback to those webmasters as "we,mac
users don't use official plugin,we use a plugin officially distributed
by microsoft instead"

If they have DRM enabled, flip4mac can't do DRM so they are right
suggesting you don't have neccesarry plugin though.

Best is, use sites giving you quicktime/realplayer and now Flash option
in fact.

Ilgaz

In article <>,
Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:

> On 2006-07-28 19:47:19 +0300, Kurt Ullman <> said:
>
> > In article <>,
> > Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> There is another company , I just hope Apple never allows "browser
> >> toolbars" in Safari in future.
> >>
> >
> > Speaking of which, I set up F4M and everything, but when I try to
> > run video feeds whilst browsing in Safari (most specifically CNN's) I
> > get an error message that says it is looking for WMP 9 and gives me a
> > link to download it. Do I need to do something to let Safari know that
> > F4M is there or is this just CNN not being up to speed?
>
> In fact CNN webmaster must do changes to browser sniffing code it seems.
>
> If you check
> http://gemal.dk/browserspy/plugins_detail.html
>
> You will see it reports to the host as "I can handle these files" if
> flip4mac installed.
>
> I think it is best to send feedback to those webmasters as "we,mac
> users don't use official plugin,we use a plugin officially distributed
> by microsoft instead"
>
> If they have DRM enabled, flip4mac can't do DRM so they are right
> suggesting you don't have neccesarry plugin though.
>
> Best is, use sites giving you quicktime/realplayer and now Flash option
> in fact.
>
> Ilgaz
Thanks to both you and the other respondent. I closed down and
restarted and it works fine. First time through CNN said I needed an
update, but at least let me the option to go ahead. This never showed up
again, even after I closed Safari again. So, it appears now as though,
at least to my experience, the problem has been solved. Cool!

Thanks again for all your help.

In article
<kurtullman-
>,
Kurt Ullman <> wrote:

> In article <>,
> Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:
>
> >
> > There is another company , I just hope Apple never allows "browser
> > toolbars" in Safari in future.
> >
>
> Speaking of which, I set up F4M and everything, but when I try to run
> video feeds whilst browsing in Safari (most specifically CNN's) I get an
> error message that says it is looking for WMP 9 and gives me a link to
> download it. Do I need to do something to let Safari know that F4M is
> there or is this just CNN not being up to speed?

I've had this problem even with WMP installed. I think the problem is
with the CNN site, not F4M.

André

--
n.b. there are no monotremes in my email address

> > Speaking of which, I set up F4M and everything, but when I try to run
> > video feeds whilst browsing in Safari (most specifically CNN's) I get an
> > error message that says it is looking for WMP 9 and gives me a link to
> > download it. Do I need to do something to let Safari know that F4M is
> > there or is this just CNN not being up to speed?

Yahoo movie trailers work again. Previously it said it could not find WMP
version "0.0" and would offer to install it. I had WM 9 installed.

--
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com

In article <timmcn->,
Tim McNamara <> wrote:

> In article <>,
> Ilgaz Öcal <> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > They shipped final version. Get from:
> > http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842
> > http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/17787
> >
> > I think this is finally the time to completely get rid of windows
> > media player (on 10.3.9+ OS X) which does already have problems with
> > Tiger.
>
> I've had good results with Flip4Mac on my G4 iBook. It's basically
> transparent and I find that the Quicktime player works better than WMP
> ever did on my computers. Apple should just buy this and install it by
> default.
>
> > Also as a side note, it didn't need admin password while upgrading
> > this time. Perhaps it doesn't need in fresh install too?
>
> That's odd. Did it come as a .pkg file?

Yep.