I removed Flip4Mac months ago …I have yet to find any movie I couldn't either play in QT with Perian installed, or through VLC or mplayer.
Interesting. I guess Perian does do WMV, which is the only reason I have Flip4Mac installed. I'm going to try without it. I can play everything else sans VLC or mplayer now. At least what I watch.
#561824 - 07/24/1102:31 PMRe: Feedback/opinions on OSX Lion
[Re: Jim_]
zwei
soporific
Registered: 06/26/04
Posts: 2479
Loc: Near an iPad
There are so many different Microsoft video formats and perian won't play everything. Mplayer and/or VLC are much better at it.
I have always hated messing with flip4mac because of all the extra for-pay junk we don't need associated with the install. Reminds me a lot of StuffIt.
I haven't had a single problem thus far. Only a few niggling things:
I find LaunchPad to be completely frivolous and useless on a desktop Mac, and only mildly useful on a laptop.
I don't like the way some of the gestures contradict themselves depending on how/when you use them.
I hate how if you have an app set to open in a specific Desktop (space), let's say Desktop 2, and you're currently in Desktop 1, if you click the Safari icon in the Dock, it doesn't automatically switch to Desktop 2. In fact, it does nothing.
Other than that, I'm loving it so far.
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#561847 - 07/25/1107:20 AMRe: Feedback/opinions on OSX Lion
[Re: MacBozo]
Mike
ZigMeister
Registered: 09/01/01
Posts: 2300
Loc: SW Illinois
(From the ecamm webpage/site) ' iGlasses 2 is not compatible with OS X Lion. iGlasses 3 is coming soon, with amazing new features and full support for Lion. Upon release, iGlasses 2 customers will become iGlasses 3 customers at no additional charge.'
Yet another reason why I'm holding off on the 'Lion' installation...
#561848 - 07/25/1111:15 AMRe: Feedback/opinions on OSX Lion
[Re: Mike]
MacBozo
Nut Dood
Registered: 04/20/02
Posts: 16605
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
Originally Posted By: Mike
(From the ecamm webpage/site) ' iGlasses 2 is not compatible with OS X Lion. iGlasses 3 is coming soon, with amazing new features and full support for Lion. Upon release, iGlasses 2 customers will become iGlasses 3 customers at no additional charge.'
Yet another reason why I'm holding off on the 'Lion' installation...
#561850 - 07/25/1111:31 AMRe: Feedback/opinions on OSX Lion
[Re: zwei]
six_of_one
Pool Bar
Registered: 04/19/02
Posts: 3885
Loc: Alexandria, VA
So far, so okay here ... most everything works except all but one of my Freeverse games don't work anymore and they have no plans to make them Lionized, so that's a bummer.
Gonna wait a while before switching over on my work machines given things like Flip4Mac also don't work, and i need that functionality =)
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