Anyone using "Flip4Mac" wmv to QT app/plug-in?

[Jimmypoo]

Whatever this thing is.... it permits WMV playback via QT.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows...nents.mspx

Anyone using it and have a review?

[Seacrest]

I use it to watch standalone WMVs, even though I have the old WM Player.
Works pretty well.

I have not been able to get it to play content embedded into web pages, not that I care, since I don't generally like that.

[Jimmypoo]

v2.02 got some negative press at VersionTracker ---- amazingly, because Orifice X wouldn't work!

[elmo3]

Every time I got a .wmv in an email, Eudora would blow up the minute I opened the email.

I had to quit and restart Eudora. But Eudora would open to its previous state...which was with the email open....and it would blow up.

Ad nauseum.

I tossed Flip4Mac and never looked back.

[3d]

Flip4Mac works great on .wmv pr0n clips. Don't really use it much for anything else.

[Seacrest]

Anybody sends me a wmv in email, I punch 'em right in the nose.
Through the computer screen even.

I also changed my mail prefs so that it would not try to run attachments.

[PeterB]

It works, and plays back in my browser (Camino), BUT... screws up the display of the window it's in, and of all other windows. For standalone playing, it works great.

[Grumpyguy]

the WMP for Mac, though discontinued still works better than Flip4mac. For every file flip played correctly, 3 other times it cause every browser I had to crash.

As noted, when you simply use it to have QT player play WMV files, it seems to work fine. But as a browser plug in, well, it sucks....

[karsen]

I use it with Safari and have never had had a problem with it. I use it to listen to streamed MLB games which, sadly, are not available in Quicktime.

[Tofer]

I use it and have had a few problems, so I keep WMP around. It's worked relatively well for me.

-Tofer