Comments on: Microsoft Ports for Mac still suck http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Jeremy Clarke http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3986 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:46:53 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3986 Ha ha. Oh man. Normally I'd delete that kind of shameless promo (I mean really, if you're going to use a blogspot account to try and make yourself look neutral don't sign posts with an @telestream.com adress ((telestream is the company that developed flip4mac, which has a paid upgrade from the free version))) but it really is good software and your little blog plug is cute. Ha ha. Oh man. Normally I’d delete that kind of shameless promo (I mean really, if you’re going to use a blogspot account to try and make yourself look neutral don’t sign posts with an @telestream.com adress ((telestream is the company that developed flip4mac, which has a paid upgrade from the free version))) but it really is good software and your little blog plug is cute.

]]> by: Antonio http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3985 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:41:12 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3985 Flip4Mac is a great plug in for me. Some good info bits can be found here: http://flip4mac.blogspot.com/ Quite cheap to upgrade features, too. Flip4Mac is a great plug in for me. Some good info bits can be found here: http://flip4mac.blogspot.com/
Quite cheap to upgrade features, too.

]]> by: Jeremy Clarke http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3984 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:48:23 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3984 well 1. I'm pretty sure WMV drm didn't play well with the Microsoft player as nothing really did. 2. I <3 VLC and use it whenever I watch videos off my hard drive but have found it's support for wmv files spotty and a bit buggy (they have a tendency to show all glitchy and scrambled like porn on the pay channels when you just have basic cable). Also that wrestling thing offers a flash version of the show i navigated to (maybe there's others where it doesn't...), which is of course the way everything is heading, especially since Adobe/Macromedia made the swf specs open-source or whatever it was they did. Eventually all you'll have to do to watch any movie is download the 10-second flash-plugin which will already be part of your browser anyway. YES! (see <a href="http://video.google.com" rel="nofollow">Google Video</a> for an example of this) well 1. I’m pretty sure WMV drm didn’t play well with the Microsoft player as nothing really did. 2. I <3 VLC and use it whenever I watch videos off my hard drive but have found it’s support for wmv files spotty and a bit buggy (they have a tendency to show all glitchy and scrambled like porn on the pay channels when you just have basic cable).

Also that wrestling thing offers a flash version of the show i navigated to (maybe there’s others where it doesn’t…), which is of course the way everything is heading, especially since Adobe/Macromedia made the swf specs open-source or whatever it was they did. Eventually all you’ll have to do to watch any movie is download the 10-second flash-plugin which will already be part of your browser anyway. YES! (see Google Video for an example of this)

]]> by: tom http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3982 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:50:05 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3982 VLC player is pretty good (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). It works in fullscreen without having to pay for a Quick Time Pro account and plays pretty much all files - other than DRM WMV as well, I think. VLC player is pretty good (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/).

It works in fullscreen without having to pay for a Quick Time Pro account and plays pretty much all files - other than DRM WMV as well, I think.

]]> by: Louis http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3981 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:41:45 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/2006/04/03/microsoft-ports-for-mac-still-suck/#comment-3981 Flip4Mac does not play well with DRM WMV. Example: Video on http://www.WWE.com Flip4Mac does not play well with DRM WMV.

Example:
Video on http://www.WWE.com

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