VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by m_for_monkey » Mon, May 14, 2012, 12:03 PM UTC

VLC has been downloaded over a billion times
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Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by fierarul » Mon, May 14, 2012, 12:54 PM UTC

I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc.

It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go.

Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on-screen-display changed.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #2

I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc. It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go. Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on…

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Post by taligent » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:05 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #2

I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc. It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go. Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on…

You mean that giant pill shaped toolbar ?

If so I hate it too. Raised a bug report for it being too large and one of the developers told me to buy a Retina Mac and that my 17inch MacBook Pro has too small a resolution.

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Post by vasco » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:12 PM UTC

No Linux stats. That's too bad! I would really love to see how they would compare to mac and windows download counts.

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Post by gaving » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:15 PM UTC

I used to love VLC, pity they ruined the OSX version.

MPlayerX all the way now and I don't look back.

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Post by reitzensteinm » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:16 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #2

I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc. It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go. Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on…

The new VLC really has regressed. It crashes for me now (I don't remember the last time it did before the latest update). Also, the audio delay for volume changes is multiple seconds instead of instant, and for some reason, the "repeat this video" is always on whenever I start it up. Plus, the interface is ugly.

Even with all that though, VLC has regressed from being an amazingly solid piece of software to being merely above average.

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Post by gulbrandr » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:18 PM UTC

gaving wrote: post #6

I used to love VLC, pity they ruined the OSX version. MPlayerX all the way now and I don't look back.

Why is MPlayerX better than VLC on OSX? (Sell it to me)

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Post by andyking » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:18 PM UTC

vasco wrote: post #5

No Linux stats. That's too bad! I would really love to see how they would compare to mac and windows download counts.

I guess most people get it from their distribution's repository, so there are no centralised stats kept for downloads.

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Post by withad » Mon, May 14, 2012, 1:20 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #2

I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc. It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go. Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on…

I've lost count of the number of times I've gone to click play on the new OSX version of VLC and accidentally clicked forward or backward, completely losing my place in the video I was watching as it skips to another. Horrible UI.