Do I need to install the Flip4Mac uninstaller to uninstall Flip4Mac..?

Question

I updated Quicktime to 7.5 and am now, along with many others, having problems with choppy playback.
I have Flip4mac installed and now want to uninstall this to see whether that may be accentuating the problem. Spotlight has revealed a package called Flip4mac uninstaller which if I double click on it comes up with an install window...in other words it seems I am being prompted to install an uninstaller in order to delete Flip4Mac..!
Is this correct? Seems a long winded way of getting rid of an application. Won't this just leave another piece of the software associated with Flip4mac that then needs deleting itself.?!
Is there a better way of deleting Flip4Mac off my system?

Answer 1

You may be interested in this exchange with Hoodster, who posted the following in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7656336#7656336
Right, i got fed up and did some messing around of my own. In my QT components folder were a load of codecs, as you would expect, including Perian, which i installed earlier as it seemed to have helped others. On a hunch, i figured that if 2 of the components in a folder could both be used by QT to open a movie, QT would use the first one installed. Therefore i took components out 1 by 1 until i got audio playing. This happened after i removed the XVid 1.0 alpha component. To make sure i was right i swapped them over a few times, and had them in the same folder as well, and indeed, QT would play audio when the XVid component was not present, or if it was present but had been added after the Perian component.
So now i had audio. However, now QT would take a ** of a long tome to load any videos, a very frustratingly long time in fact. So now i investigated the new problem and found a post here http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=22923 about how Perian 1.1 makes this happen, with a tip to go to http://mac.majorgeeks.com/ and replace it with it's previous version. I did this, and bingo bango, video _+ audio loading as it should.
So, installing Perian will fix the problem of the audio - if you remove certain other components first, and then replacing it with its previous version (1.0) will solve the slow-loading issue.
To which I made the following response:
That is a most interesting observation, and confirms that the location and version of plug-ins for QT plays a part.
In my HD Library/Quicktime I have Perian 1.1, Flip4Mac components, Apple Intermediate Codec, and AC3 Movieimport component. I don't have XVid.
The link you provided to Macupdate, as far as I can see, refers to problems with Perian 1.1 and QT 7.4.1, not 7.5, and another 'variable' is that you are running Leopard and I am running Tiger.
It may therefore be that Perian 1.1 works better with Tiger than leopard?
Or that Perian 1.0 works better with Leopard than Tiger?!
Either way, and this needs further exploration, it seems that certain combinations of third party plug-ins do not work when you have QT 7.5, and possibly that updating those components cures the issue with QT 7.5.
The presence of DivX in that folder when Perian is present is known to cause problems.
Thank you for posting your findings.
You may find that worth exploring.