Windows Media Components for QuickTime: Difference between revisions

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It also includes a web browser plug-in to allow playback of embedded Windows Media files in web pages.

With the components installed, any QuickTime-compatible application is able to directly play WMV content. This includes the official [[QuickTime Player]] by Apple as well as countless third party players, like [[NicePlayer]]. It even has a clever mechanism allowing the Windows Media files to be opened in QuickTime Player when [[double click]]ed. An application called WMV Player in the Applications folder is the program the Windows media are associated with. When a file is double clicked, WMV Player lauches and immediately tells QuickTime Player to open the file, providing a transparent experience for the end user. In addtionaddition to this, the file [[icon (computing)|icons]] in WMV Player are done in the same style as the QuickTime Player icons, further encouraging the illusion that they are QuickTime Player files.

On [[2006-01-12]], Microsoft discontinued [[Windows Media Player]] for Mac OS X and began distributing a free version of WMV Player as Windows Media Components for QuickTime on their website[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/flip4mac.mspx].

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==Timeline==

*As of July 8, 2006, Flip4Mac did not officially run on Intel-based Macs.

*As of July 15, 2006, version 2.1 of Flip4Mac now supported Windows Media Player 10 content, which was previously inaccesibleinaccessible to Macintosh users. This newer version also supports Intel-based Macs.

*As of July 27, 2006, version 2.1 is a non-beta release of the [[Universal Binary]] format for OS X.