TechThisOut!

The universal version of Flip4Mac, the program to allow WMV files to be ran through Quicktime, is now being redistributed throughout a closed beta. Although just a little buggy, you can now play embedded clips on web pages, along with the standard Quicktime player. Unfortunatley, because it is a closed beta, it is not public and you can not get it. Fortunatley, though, there was a brave soul who uploaded it to Rapidshare and you can now download it here. Please note that tech this out! is not redistributing it but only linking to where it is being hosted. Imroved bug fixes and new features include:

• Added universal binary support for Intel Macs
• Added significant export optimizations for PowerPC Macs
• Added multi language audio support in player
• Added overlay when importing WMV content in trial mode
• Improved support for MMS servers and live streams
• Fixed DCT Blocking issue (progressive deterioration with increasing distance from previous keyframe)

Not yet added/known issues (to be included in future beta versions):

• Optimizations for WMV playback on Intel machines.
• 2-pass VBR green shift issue
• 2-pass VBR keyframe issue

Movies play perfect on my 1.83 GhZ Intel Core Duo iMac, both embedded and not embedded. Enjoy!