Flip4Mac acquires PopWire

[CallMeTheArrow]

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Flip4Mac acquires PopWire

Kind of big news considering these are the only two solutions to run Windows Media on Macs (under Mac OS X natively, anyway). So now they are one in the same going forward. They are to merge the best of both solutions in the future. Sorry if this was already reported on MacRumors but I didn't see it anywhere.

For those that don't know, see PopWire's solution here: link and Flip4Mac here at this one: link

 

[Makosuke]

This is a bit of a surprise.

Not sure what Flip4Mac will get out of it--I ran Popwire until F4M went universal, and it played far less files than Flip4Mac and didn't handle embedded video, either. Maybe they have some good encoding tools or something?

Popwire, I can understand--they have an inferior solution and F4M's is free (yet not, from a development perspective) thanks to the Microsoft deal.

Maybe Popwire decided to throw in the towel and figured selling to Flip4Mac was the best option.

[Edit: Ok, should've actually read the article; looks like it was more the Popwire multi-format compression system that Telestream wanted, and the WMV-9 codec was just along for the ride.]

 

[CallMeTheArrow]

This is a bit of a surprise.

Not sure what Flip4Mac will get out of it--I ran Popwire until F4M went universal, and it played far less files than Flip4Mac and didn't handle embedded video, either. Maybe they have some good encoding tools or something?

Popwire, I can understand--they have an inferior solution and F4M's is free (yet not, from a development perspective) thanks to the Microsoft deal.

Maybe Popwire decided to throw in the towel and figured selling to Flip4Mac was the best option.

[Edit: Ok, should've actually read the article; looks like it was more the Popwire multi-format compression system that Telestream wanted, and the WMV-9 codec was just along for the ride.]

Well you are probably right but also bear in mind - less competition to an extent, though Flip4Mac was widely used a lot more than PopWire I think.

 

[gadgetgirl85]

What exactly does Flipnote do is it worth downloading?

 

[Nermal]

What exactly does Flipnote do is it worth downloading?

I can't find any reference to a "Flipnote" on either Telestream's or Popwire's sites and you can't possibly be asking what Flip4Mac does, because it's described in the first paragraph of the article. Care to enlighten me?