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VLC is open source right? It would be nice if they put up the source for the iPad app so at least developers could make a build for themselves.
Seems that they do http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html unless it's a different iOS version of VLC than the one on the app store that was removed.
If you want something smaller, faster and tons more efficient for OS X, I highly recommend MPlayerX instead. It's everything VLC is, and more, with none of VLC's bloat.
Or just install Perian. Which installs most popular codecs system wide. That means things will work fine in any app that uses the OS X APIs to render video. Including QuickView .. really nice to be able to just hit space bar in the Finder to see a quick preview of a movie.
There's a lesson in how to make a product in VLC's success. It has a horribly unfriendly interface, and is certainly not pretty, but it doesn't matter - Whatever media file you point it at, you can feel confident that VLC will play it, without hassle.
Strangely reminiscent of the success of Apple products.
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The interface might not be the prettiest, but I don't think it's "horribly unfriendly". Can you contrast it with another player? I have been using vlc for a long time now and although I just switched to Mac OS, I can't say that I find other players on the platform particularly appealing. But again I think it depends on what you do it. In my case its usually either in minimized mode or playing a movie on full screen m…
mplayer, for example, is just as capably at playing just about any media format, but is definitely far more user-unfriendly than vlc
I feel that people too often confuse a user-friendly interface with an intuitive or noob-friendly one. But I guess seeing as most programs' user base's large majority are non-technical people that's fair.
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Plex runs on a computer at home. You then stream that computer's media over the Internet on the iPad/iPhone using the Plex app. To make things super-easy you can register your home Plex server on myPlex and sign into it using myPlex on the iPad/iPhone. Bam! No need to bring a computer OR move files to the device. You can even stream over 3G with pretty decent quality.
That works so well on an airplane without wifi, or a tent in a valley in the wilderness :)
Much like a laptop.
I know that it's a fallacious statistic but here is the VLC all time OS market share (rounded): Windows: 89.38% OS X: 10.27% Other: 0.35%
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…
- Skype back to 2.8
- VLC back to 1.1.12
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VLC is open source right? It would be nice if they put up the source for the iPad app so at least developers could make a build for themselves.
Seems that they do http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html unless it's a different iOS version of VLC than the one on the app store that was removed.
VLC used to be a nice simple program that just did what it said on the tin. Now much more bloated with really slow start up. I use GOM player mainly (Windows)
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Or you can use AirVideo. It converts while it streams or you can have it just do the conversion and dump it in iTunes so it will sync to the ipad automatically for offline usage.
Sure, but then you'll have to use up precious gigabytes for video storage. Via plex I have streaming access to my entire video library.