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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 oldschooltaper »

cellularmitosis wrote: post #71
itg wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If OSX is anything like other OS's, you have to turn down the volume through OSX, not mplayer. mplayer's volume control is a way to "fine tune" the system volume. It sounds like your system volume is set high to begin with. Lower it. Then launch mplayer.

I would tell you how but I don't use OSX. Surely someone else can tell you, or you could learn yourself. It's worth learning how to use mplayer, if you are serious about audio.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by mparlane »

getsat wrote: post #80
Dejital wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yea, I get that on any 720p + movie. Basically any mkv that may have subtitle support.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by mparlane »

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

Were you paid? Or part of a "help a free project" endeavor ?

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by grecy »

st3fan wrote: post #46
hackermom wrote: post #29

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.

The developers just announced the next version of Perian will be the final version. http://perian.org/?eol

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by ealloc »

lmm wrote: post #15
praptak wrote: post #14

If you value all the the time you saved by skipping "unskippable" DVD crap in VLC, please consider donating to this amazing project.

Doesn't it just use mplayer's libraries for playing DVDs? Seems like they would be a better target for donation (particularly since most efforts to support new formats e.g. bluray seem to happen there)

I think the parent is referring to libdvdcss, which is the library that cracks the DRM encryption on the dvd. Without it you wouldn't be able to skip unskippable parts, nor even play the dvd using non-authorized dvd players like vlc.

libdvdcss is developed by the videolan project, which is the umbrella project for vlc.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by SiVal »

efnx wrote: post #48
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…

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.

How would this help? (And I'm actually asking, not disputing.)

I don't have an iPad. Does Apple allow you to load your own app (as in an app you write or at least compile for yourself) onto your own iPad, or do you have to load everything through the store, which requires getting Apple's approval?

If you can't directly load your own app (which is my, perhaps mistaken, impression), how would having the source help? If you can, then that sounds like a potential solution.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by SiVal »

hkmurakami wrote: post #63
ElliotH wrote: post #47

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.

"It just works." Strangely reminiscent of the success of Apple products.

Except, arguably, for QuickTime which, for half the media I care about, just doesn't work.

Re: VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

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Post by barrkel »

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. :-)

Only 3 GBP / MB when roaming. Remotely viewing a movie with a high-res encoding might only cost approximately the same as a car.
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