June 10, 2006
First Impressions: Flip4Mac Intel beta
Posted Jun. 10, ’06, 2:09 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Video
Perhaps I spoke rather hastily the other day in regards to the Flip4Mac WMV plug-in. A comment to that story provided a link for acquiring the beta version of the Intel-native software and I jumped at the chance to give it a try.
The beta showed up in my inbox yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to install it until this afternoon. Having done so, I gave it a quick run through its paces, testing it in the three browsers I had on hand: Safari, Camino, and Firefox. Flip4Mac worked great in Safari, with some occasional stuttering on a really high-quality WMV, performed adequately in Firefox, and somewhat disappointingly in Camino. Those last two results were particularly surprising as I was using a Univeral version of Camino (1.0) and a PowerPC-native version of Firefox (1.5.0.3). WMVs played fine in QuickTime Player as well.
As I said before, I don’t often find myself needing WMV support, but when it comes up, it’s certainly annoying not to have, so I’m glad Flip4Mac will be releasing the Intel-native version soon. In the meantime, their beta seems to be progressing quite well.
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Yep...Flip4Mac is perfect for viewing all the web content offered in WMV format (which there seems to be a lot of).
I'd suggest avoiding any sites offering the beta in a bootleg form....stick with Telestream for the real deal. They have a closed beta group testing the UB version now....if you're desperate, send an email to support@flip4mac.com and ask them if you can be included.
This was actually from Telestream, so it's definitely the legit copy.