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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 cellularmitosis »

itg wrote: post #21
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…

Try MPlayerX for OSX, I prefer it over the new VLC.

I tried MPlayer OSX once, and found that it turned my mac's volume up to max everytime I played a video. Sorry guys, endangering my audio equipment is terminally bad QA in my book. No thanks.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by xyzzyb »

moheeb wrote: post #70
xyzzyb wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Dude it's 2012...gigabytes haven't been precious for over a decade.

Neither has bandwidth. :-)

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by xyzzyb »

zxoq wrote: post #55
xyzzyb wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While offline?

Not so much. If you're going to need to view video away from data service or WiFi then, yeah, you have no choice but local storage.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by PiracyApologist »

NathanKP wrote: post #39

Every time I see the VLC website I have to laugh, because I coded it a few years ago back when I was still doing general consulting. It has changed a little bit but it is still nice to be able to look into the code and still see some of my old stuff in there. And yes.... I know some of the markup is terrible. :P

Nice humblebrag there.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by Erunno »

I'll just add another data point. After the release of VLC 2.0 I was slightly dissatisfied with the new interface on OS X and used the opportunity to try out a couple of alternative players. In the end I stuck with MPlayerX because of short startup time and the minimalistic interface. But it was only a short love affair. The keyboard controls are pretty much non-existent, it can't open DVD menus, it only shows half the available duration of some of my music DVD rips (dual-layer?!?) and I have some occasional weird timing issues with regard to subtitles (image and subtitles suddenly not in sync). In the end I returned to VLC and all of my issues disappeared.

So kudos to the VLC team for producing such a great product (despite some questionable interface decisions). I'll take a player which "just works" over the pretty and shiny competitors every day.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

res0nat0r wrote: post #68
zachanker wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm debating buying an iPad and not being able to play all media formats is a big one. Can I drag mkv 720p files to my iPad and will VLC play them if I can get it installed via above? Also hows the battery life if trying to play a 720p or 1080p file?

FWIW my Android Transformer plays everything using MX player. There's a seperate install for the codecs, but its easy and painless. All in the android play store. No sideloading needed.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

hackermom wrote: post #30
program wrote: post #26

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 wonder how many percentiles of the Windows number comes from Windows' re-re-re-re-install-ish nature. "Dang, my FPS is low, I gotta "format Windows" again."

Pretty sure that died out in the XP days and even then it was due to malware.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by sanswork »

xyzzyb wrote: post #72
moheeb wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude it's 2012...gigabytes haven't been precious for over a decade.

Neither has bandwidth. :-)

When travelling it often is. Mobile data rates are still prohibitively high in most places and wifi services have low caps.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by getsat »

Dejital wrote: post #51
Zirro wrote: post #23

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Unless you have a different bug, "the audio delay for volume changes is multiple seconds instead of instant" was fixed in version 2.0.1 along with several other issues.

The audio delay issue persists for me in version 2.0.1 like the parent commenter. Among other issues is an increase in random crashing. The new interface isn't particularly inviting, either. Reading through the other comments here has caused me to revert to the older version with which I was never unhappy with.

I also see it "rebuilding font cache" on every fresh start. Is anyone else seeing that? Very annoying.
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