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feepk

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About feepk

VLC's lead developer for Mac OS X and iOS.

http://feepk.net

http://about.me/fkuehne

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49083541

    HDR, dual subs, new codecs, liquid glass on iOS 26 and most importantly: all of VLC 4!

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    Comment #47701676

    You can find all binaries, including the one for iOS and Android, on our website, signed by the core developers. If you trust us, it is totally up to you. GitHub is used as a mirro…

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    Comment #47701648

    As a developer of the VLC-iOS app, I can confirm that the binary itself is completely unchanged. It is indeed the signature that was updated.

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    Comment #9121358

    No, this is a 3.0.0 feature.

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    Comment #9121354

    Enter your details here: http://cl.ly/2p2B3S2y2w3Y

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    Comment #9121342

    This is untrue. Apple is just publishing it in different regions at different times. I had a call with them 3 hours ago and they told me that it can take up to 12 hours (!) until a…

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    Comment #9120274

    According to our WWDR contact, there is no way to blacklist trademarks you own on the App Store, so we need to send DMCA take-down notices for all infringements. We sent 39 against…

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    Comment #9003697

    It is not like we voluntary did either the removal nor being silent about it.

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    Comment #8990866

    Just update as usual :)

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    Comment #8990843

    This is because you downloaded our app a while ago and we did something so you can re-download it to your device now. This is in preparation of our actual release in the next days …

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    Comment #8990804

    Ok, at first, the app provider added advertisement to the app using Google AdSense to make a personal profit. Further, the license is not MIT but MPLv2 and GPLv2 which is intrinsic…

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    Comment #8990276

    This is the last in a long row of copyright violations permitted by Apple to the store despite app review and multiple complaints by us in the past. This binary is based on buggy, …

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    Comment #7039176

    This is one of the reasons why you have to use a wrapper for the VLC binary to execute it within a root environment. Said wrapper is usually in an extra package on Linux and not pr…

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    Comment #6067134

    VLC is free (both as in beer and in speech) and will always be :) However, you can donate to our non-profit organization, which e.g. paid the iPad I used for development, as well a…

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    Comment #6067109

    75% are written by me with major contributions by https://twitter.com/gpinigin and some improvements by Applidium :) So, it's a VideoLAN initiative.

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    Comment #4904420

    I'd like to invite you to have a look at my blog post detailing on how to customize the new Mac UI to suit your needs: http://feepk.net/customizing-vlc-for-mac If this isn't enough…

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    Comment #3982169

    Sorry, but we aren't responsible for 3rd apps who try to use VLC's functionality in a completely unsupported way. Stuff within an application bundle is considered private and can c…

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    Comment #3982158

    This will be fixed in VLC 2.0.2 :)

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