Flip4Mac WMV v2.2 Released

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Flip4Mac WMV v2.2 Released
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Posted by: Brian

Telestream has announced the release of Flip4Mac WMV v2.2. Flip4Mac WMV is a collection of Windows Media Components for QuickTime that allow you to play, import, and export Windows Media video and audio files on your Mac using your favorite QuickTime-based applications. According to the company, this release includes improved support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Other changes include:

Player:
- Added JavaScript support to the browser plugins
- Added support for URL Stream Scripting
- Improved ASX handling
- Improved support for MMS servers and live streams
- Improved compatibility with many different web sites
- Removed the user enabled "Create Streaming Movies" preference
- Added support for manual Deactivation/Reactivation
- Fixed potential security issue reported by Drew Yao where an attacker could potentially cause a security issue by deliberately malforming WMV files.

Exporter:
- Significant encoding speed improvements for Intel Mac
- Improved video quality when encoding 2-pass VBR

Flip4Mac WMV v2.2 requires an Intel-based or PPC-based Mac, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and QuickTime version 7.0 or later. You can download the free player from Microsoft's website here. Prices for the full version of Flip4Mac WMV range from $30 to $100.



http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/842.html

[PanicSteve]

Does Flip4Mac support Silverlight playback?

[mdgm]

Removing the Create Streaming Movies option is really annoying. It was an extremely useful feature especially for long streams.

[chapito]

[Aargh-a-Knot]

Can this be used to view steaming Netflix video? It seems a shame to be paying for it, and not be able to use it.