Apparently they just happened to overlook the bug that Flip4Mac crashes all the time for everyone. 2.0.1 is fixed. However, 2.0 also claims to support WMV3-in-AVI, but it seems this doesn't work for anyone either, but just gives the useful error message "unknown error (-50)".
It's a nice plugin to have, but the developers seem a little bit optimistic.
Also, no matter how much I prefer OS X to Windows, OS X is really lacking in the video playback architecture department. QuickTime is nowhere near Windows' DirectShow in terms of actually working. It's just plain silly that a plugin that decodes the WMV video streams in files needs to actually handle the container format, too. DirectShow (and most open-source all-in-one video players) properly splits up the work of components into demuxers, decoders, renderers and so on, and builds graphs to combine them to play files. QuickTime is feeling horribly outdated in this respect.
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It's a nice plugin to have, but the developers seem a little bit optimistic.
Also, no matter how much I prefer OS X to Windows, OS X is really lacking in the video playback architecture department. QuickTime is nowhere near Windows' DirectShow in terms of actually working. It's just plain silly that a plugin that decodes the WMV video streams in files needs to actually handle the container format, too. DirectShow (and most open-source all-in-one video players) properly splits up the work of components into demuxers, decoders, renderers and so on, and builds graphs to combine them to play files. QuickTime is feeling horribly outdated in this respect.