Flip4Mac & Windows Media Player 9
May 15, 2008
Microsoft:
As an alternative to Windows Media Player for Mac, Microsoft has teamed up with Telestream to make its popular Flip4Mac program available to Macintosh users. With Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.
Note: Flip4Mac does not support content that is protected with Windows Media digital rights management (DRM).
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About Windows Media Player for Mac.
Microsoft will continue to offer Windows Media Player 9 as a free download for Macintosh users, but has no plans to provide future updates or product support for Windows Media Player for Mac. With Windows Media Player for Mac, you can use Windows Media Technologies, including the following:
| • | Windows Media content playback |
| • | Plug-in support for Internet Explorer (Windows Media Player 9 only) |
| • | Netscape® and Safari™ browsers |
| • | High-quality audio and video |
| • | Mac Classic skins |
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Yes…this is a fantastic thing for us Mac users. There is SO much wmv content out there, and no way, previously, to view it since MS dropped support for any new versions of WM Player. The expanded features for encoding are very useful, too. I converted a 160mb mov to 6mb without any apparent loss in quality.