Windows Media Components for QuickTime, also known as Flip4Mac WMV Player by Telestream, Inc. was one of the few commercial products that allow playback of

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's proprietary audio and video codecs inside

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for

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. It allowed playback of: *

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7, 8, 9, SD and HD *

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7, 8, 9, Professional and Lossless It also included 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

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by Apple as well as countless third party players. WMV Player also allows Windows media files to be associated to QuickTime Player. On January 12, 2006, Microsoft discontinued support for

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for Mac OS X and began distributing a free version of WMV Player as Windows Media Components for QuickTime on their website. As of June 2015, there is no longer a free version of this application offered. Flip4Mac was retired as of July 1, 2019. "If you are a current user of Flip4Mac, or your Flip4Mac stopped functioning when up upgraded your operating system, we invite you to take a look at Switch."

Timeline

*July 8, 2006 – Flip4Mac did not officially run on Intel-based Macs. *July 15, 2006 – version 2.1 of Flip4Mac now supported Windows Media Player 10 content, which was previously inaccessible to Macintosh users. This newer version also supports Intel-based Macs. *July 27, 2006 – version 2.1 is a non-beta release of the

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format for Mac OS X. *September 20, 2016 - Flip4Mac doesn't work in macOS Sierra (10.12) *July 1, 2019 - Flip4Mac officially discontinued by Telestream (Telestream had stopped development as of 2016

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