[lkalliance]

This was just announced today:
Microsoft to Stop Developing Media Software for Macs
Looks like they'll be partnering with a company to do a plug-in for Quicktime so that Mac users can play WMV files. I wonder how it'll stack up to Flip4Mac's software.
This makes me wonder: I find the quality of Quicktime video on my Mac to be much better than the quality of WMV files. Is that a flaw of the codec or of the player? Will WMV files look better on my Mac via this Quicktime plugin (either the existing Flip4Mac plugin or whatever Microsoft comes up with for Telestream) or will they still look awful because they're in the WMV codec?

[d00d]

I wrote about this yesterday. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Actually, Telestream develops Flip4Mac, so that's the new official software. And the new 2.0 version is absolutely free (and installed on all my machines).

[Tom_Diola]

Good riddance Windoze Media Player more hard drive space for good apps.

[lkalliance]

Pffffftttthhhhbbbt. Sure, you "wrote" about it, if you loosely define "write" as "stringing together words and sentences into a structured, coherent document that successfully communicates one or more facts, themes and/or opinions." Specious, at best. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
There seems to be discrepencies, though, between your story and the AP story: You're saying that MS has stopped development of its player (or its codec?) entirely and contracted Telestream to do it all...the AP story and the Macworld story each say that MS has only stopped support for the Mac version.
And that still leaves my question, or rather a different version of it: If I find that WMV media is still lesser quality than native QT media, is that a problem with the codec itself, or are Windows users experiencing the opposite?

[skymedic5]

I recently installed this. It seems that everytime I play a WMV file whether with QT or in Safari with QT plug in the program will crash eather Safari or QT. Any idea's how to fix this issue???
Thanks
Marc

iMarc G5 1.6Ghz 768Ram OSX 10.4.4

[Typhoon14]

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This makes me wonder: I find the quality of Quicktime video on my Mac to be much better than the quality of WMV files. Is that a flaw of the codec or of the player? Will WMV files look better on my Mac via this Quicktime plugin (either the existing Flip4Mac plugin or whatever Microsoft comes up with for Telestream) or will they still look awful because they're in the WMV codec?

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The video quality of anything played through the mac version of WMP is very bad - the quicktime plugin provides a much nicer-looking image, although much still depends on the bitrate and resolution of the particular file you're viewing.