flip4mac no go

Matsaki

Matsaki

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Is there any body else who installed the free flip4mac and don't get it to work?

I even try to manually insert the wmv URL in to Quicktime but I always get

QuickTime cannot open the URL: "5yearoldnecklace.wmv"
it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)
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what do I do wrong??
 
Yeah, for some reason it doesn't work properly with all Windows Media file formats or it won't display properly when embedded in the web page. Just looks like we went from one option that didn't work to another one that also didn't function, but not as horribly as WMP for Mac. :p
 
There are tons of different formats, and the Flip4Mac people are working everyday to get as many comaptible as possible. If you have a specific link, send it to me or support@flip4mac.com and Telestream will try to get it to work within the next update. This is the great thing about having a company that isn't part of the huge Microsoft...you can actually contact someone who will listen to your requests and do something about it. I've pointed out several sites to them and in the latest 2.0.2 version they are now working. The only thing that MS won't give, is the license to view DRM content, so that's a no go, but I'm quite pleased with F4M now.
 
Both links worked perfect for me. Each streamed in QT thru Safari. I would suggest you create a new user account, and only install the latest 2.0.2 Flip4Mac, then try the sites. This is a good way to insure that you don't have any other plug ins getting in the way. It will help to isolate the issue. Lemme know what happens.
 
I have a bug from the time when I was experimenting with the flip4mac pro things I think. Now when I klick the WMV symbol in the prefs. the prefs.quits.

I tried to take away all the pluggs in /library/quicktime and only use flip4mac plugs, but same. Some file or plug is making the hustle :(
 
I will test it out. I just realized that I failed to mention that I was using Flip4Mac in Camino and Firefox, so that might be why. I haven't tried it under Safari mainly because it's not my browser of choice. :)
 
I tried those links in Camino, and they worked for me. I have experienced trouble with flip4mac, as well. Sometimes, video content opens Quicktime player, and just the Quicktime content page opens, and no video playback.
The world would be a great place if window's media player format did not exist.
 
I found the problem :)

I ha some old plugin called eSellerate_Engine that crashed everything!

Now it's working great :)
 
What still doesn't work is WMV-3 in .avi containers. This is not about DRM'd files, merely another form of packing WMV-3... But I guess it'll take a while. For some reason it seems to be difficult.
 
Matsaki said:
Here is one that don't work for me:

[URL="http://***************************[/URL]
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It didn't load in the browser window as an embedded video, but it worked fine after clicking on the download link. That said, I strongly suggest that no one do so (if its still there).

Matsaki: REREAD the Board Rules immediately. The content of that video is in no way appropriate for the forums.
 
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