VLC has been downloaded over a billion times • Hacker News Board

Post by feepk » Wed, May 16, 2012, 2:33 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #12

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…

Not to mention VLC 2.0 it breaking the helper libs needed for DVD backup. The fix should have been automatic: http://www.macworld.com/article/1165549/fix_handbrake_dvd_ri...

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 change anytime.

Anyway, we informed the Handbrake devs about a month prior to VLC's 2.0 release, which is why they came up with a fix in their latest version shortly after.