Flip4Mac flips 4 version 2.2

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December 26, 2007

Oh, Flip4Mac—what did I do before you were part of my life? Well, mainly I didn’t watch WMV files if I could at all help it. Or, on the rare occasion that that latest movie trailer was only available in Microsoft’s horrid format, I’d *shiver* boot up my PC and go through the laborious process of transferring the file over. Anything to avoid having to open up Windows Media Player on the Mac (half the time it didn’t even work, for heaven’s sake).

Telestream has released Flip4Mac 2.2 which boasts improved Leopard compatibility and the amazing promise of five times faster encoding performance on Intel Macs. That’s a whole lot of performance increase, innit? As a bonus, they’ve improved ability to encode video with Variable Bit Rate (VBR). Of course, to use the encoding functions, you’ll need to shell out $29 for Telestream’s encoding software; but in the meantime, if all you want to do is play WMVs back, you can grab the software for free.

[via Macworld]