Telestream today announced the availability of Flip4Mac WMV 2.1. Highlights of the new version include Universal support for Apple’s Intel-based Mac systems and significantly faster Windows Media encoding for PowerPC Mac users. The Flip4Mac WMV update is free and available for download on Microsoft and Flip4Mac Web sites. Flip4Mac WMV is comprised of a collection of QuickTime components that enables Mac OS X users to play, import and export Windows Media files using QuickTime-based applications. In addition to Universal support, this release includes significantly faster export optimizations for PowerPC Mac users, who will see encode speeds four to six times faster with version 2.1.