Most of the sites I frequent with video content offer either RealOne or WM. There is plenty of Windows Media content out on the web right now, and this will continue to grow. I was beginning to fear that MS was abandoning all things Mac with that IE discontinuation announcement. At higher resolutions/bitrates, the WMP9 codec is really nice - much cleaner than DivX/Xvid when it comes to encoding cartoons.Īnyway, I think this is good for the platform. I know a lot of people here don't care for MS, but after using the codec on my Windows box, I'm impressed. Looks like the Mac folk will see WMP9 (in some form) after all.

Microsoft is also working on a version of the Windows Media 9 Series Voice codec for Windows Media Player 6.4.

In addition to the Windows Media 9 Series Voice codec, it appears that Windows Media Player 9 Series for Mac OS X will support all of the 9 Series codecs. We showed the new player running with Apple's Safari browser at their Thanks for your patience'

In the WMTALK e-mail listserv, Kevin Unangst, a Microsoft employee, stated the following: 'We are definitely planning to support WMA 9 Voice in the upcoming release of Windows Media Player 9 Series for Mac OS X.

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