Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / March 2006

It does seem odd since that will probably be the first port of call
for Mac users if they're using MS products. I'll mention it about and
see if there's any interest in adding the link to that page (or
Corentin will ;-)

NB the plugin doesn't support any form of DRM media which
unfortunately will become increasingly prevalent over the coming
years. That isn't addressed by the current WMP9 for Mac either (other
than the old DRM1 style of content locking which is rarely used these
days).

Since can't play drm tracks is one of the more frequent complaints
here, I think there's still a disconnect which could be addressed.

That's nice, isn't it. Though I guess it must cut both ways - Flip get
extra exposure for their product, in particular a larger installed
base means more conversions to the paid-for content production
version. It's all good though.

Agree, had one unexplained QT crash yesterday when attempting to
change file attributes (in this case the clip "Title" attribute).

I'm looking into that in case it needs the full version to modify text
attributes, it could be an unintended side effect which hasn't been
tested, or my machine needed a reboot (even though I'd closed all QT
before the install).

Preliminary testing of the embedding code using QT embedding in Safari
and passing in a mime type of video/quicktime, but a source video of
bla.asf caused QT to render the 4mb of video data as text instead of
video. Still to check a lot of things there though before I get on
their forums. to report apparent errors.

The thing is about this, it will make some interesting changes to the
landscape for me as a web developer and digital media hacker. Lots of
things to test and check, so little time !

I get the feeling with the Flip crew that they'll be quite responsive
to well documented feedback of problems and bugs in this product, so
I'm looking forward to an interesting few months !

Cheers - Neil

Can't find the plug-in on MS site.  Please provide more info.

A quick Google search will show you the Flip4Mac website as the top
listing. I got it there.

I think they haven't had time to update their section of the site.
Thy have never been in charge of WMP and many of them were at MacWorld
this past week :-)

Corentin

Hi,
I do not know if you had to get this Flip4Mac because you had problems
with WMP for OS X, but maybe you have an idea.
I just upgraded to Tiger on my powerbook. Now, I have downloaded and
installed WMP 4 or 5 times, and it will not open and will not play any
clips.
Have you heard of this and do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Drew