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Is VLC for Mac development almost dead?
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article published on 19 December, 2009
VideoLAN, the group behind the extremely popular free media player VLC has said that development for the Mac version of the software may come to an end soon, as volunteers have almost completely disappeared.
All VLC versions are developed on a volunteer basis but it seems that the Mac version has had its volunteer corps drop to zero for most of the time.
A 64-bit Mac VLC has already ... [ read the full article ]
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19. December 2009 @ 15:43 |
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Can you blame them.
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KSib
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19. December 2009 @ 19:11 |
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Why do you think they stopped volunteering? When you said "can you blame them?" I'm not entirely sure what has been happening. Can I be enlightened? :)
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EvilDeeds
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19. December 2009 @ 19:44 |
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It's a shame - one of the best players on the mac. :(
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19. December 2009 @ 21:31 |
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Originally posted by KSib:
Why do you think they stopped volunteering? When you said "can you blame them?" I'm not entirely sure what has been happening. Can I be enlightened? :)
...probably the coders are using "real" hardware;none of them is using a MAC hardware for serious programming, so they quit...~)))
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KSib
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19. December 2009 @ 21:57 |
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Tell that to my comp sci professors :P
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19. December 2009 @ 23:47 |
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Uh, it is now based on Qt and Qt requires very little changes for each platform to build on. The only thing to be concerned with is the huge amount of other libraries that VLC uses that are platform-dependent or require many changes to stay working with Mac OS X. I am surprised they maintained an Cocoa version so long, when Qt looks almost 100% identical on Mac.
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20. December 2009 @ 14:44 |
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20. December 2009 @ 14:53 |
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Originally posted by david94:
at least Macs dont use sh*tty media players like Windows media player.
If a Mac's default player is the greatest invention since sliced bread, why people use something like VLC on a Mac(don't get me wrong, I am not defending WMP, I never use it), but I wouldn't ever touch Quick Time either...
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20. December 2009 @ 14:56 |
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Originally posted by david94:
at least Macs dont use sh*tty media players like Windows media player.
yeah they have there own sh*tty media Player called QuickTime.
why else would having an alternative on mac be greatly wanted.
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20. December 2009 @ 15:07 |
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Recently, I have had some issues with VLC. I had a couple of MKV/H.264 that were stuttering in VLC. I tried KMPlayer a couple of weeks ago(free version).KMPlayer handles those MKVs beautifully. I am also able to play incomplete video downloads much better in KMPlayer, to preview them. Now I am just going back and forth between the two of them.
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KSib
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20. December 2009 @ 17:06 |
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*shrug* never really had any problems with windows media player. I certainly wouldn't use it if I had a bunch of music though.
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21. December 2009 @ 01:10 |
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There only two things I liked about vlc over other player. First was the ability to adjust the volume. Most other players only let you turn it up to the system max, which might still be way to low for some video files. VLC let you jack up the volume as loud as you wanted. It was real good when something else beeps on your computer behind the video because it doesn't sound like a loud crack of thunder since you didn't turn up the physical speakers loud.
The other thing, when part 1 of a video file ends, part 2 auto opens and plays.
Otherwise, vlc sucks balls. When your first start the video it's all blocky and grainy for the first few seconds, and if anything in the background uses any cpu then vlcs video gets grainy and blocky again and sometimes freezes for up to 10 seconds. Seriously wtf, never ever had that problem with any other player ever.
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21. December 2009 @ 03:03 |
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Originally posted by bomber991:
There only two things I liked about vlc over other player. First was the ability to adjust the volume. Most other players only let you turn it up to the system max, which might still be way to low for some video files. VLC let you jack up the volume as loud as you wanted. It was real good when something else beeps on your computer behind the video because it doesn't sound like a loud crack of thunder since you didn't turn up the physical speakers loud.
The other thing, when part 1 of a video file ends, part 2 auto opens and plays.
Otherwise, vlc sucks balls. When your first start the video it's all blocky and grainy for the first few seconds, and if anything in the background uses any cpu then vlcs video gets grainy and blocky again and sometimes freezes for up to 10 seconds. Seriously wtf, never ever had that problem with any other player ever.
Never had any issues with VLC, and besides VLC is a lightweight client it doesn't have any padding option. so what you put in is what you get out.
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KSib
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21. December 2009 @ 03:18 |
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"padding option?"
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21. December 2009 @ 03:45 |
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Originally posted by KSib:
"padding option?"
Full featured Media players attempt to compensate for bad or corrupt bits of information in the Video/Audio stream or source. some do it so well its like there is nothing wrong.
VLC reads streams and sources Bit by Bit so if there is a bad bit it must still read it, and because it lacks the ability to Pad(compensate) the bad bit it looks/sounds garbled. or worse if there are to many bad bits it may go out of sync.
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KSib
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21. December 2009 @ 03:55 |
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So I don't follow your argument then, wouldn't the average user _want_ padding?
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21. December 2009 @ 04:08 |
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Originally posted by KSib:
So I don't follow your argument then, wouldn't the average user _want_ padding?
yes must would, but VLC can Play broken video/audio files, i also like to see how much quality goes into my compression software. i can do this with VLC knowing that it wont Lie(Pad)my content. its also lightweight and has no dependency's with the registry meaning its highly portable even with locked out machines.
So it has its uses.
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KSib
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21. December 2009 @ 04:20 |
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Oh yeah, I'm sure. I keep a portable version of it on my USB. I need a Blu-Ray player though honestly...it's annoying that I have to download yet ANOTHER (shareware) player just to play Blu-Ray movies. After I installed Windows 7, I lost my HP blu-ray player software somewhere in there. I need to find it again I suppose..
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22. December 2009 @ 03:37 |
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Originally posted by KSib:
Tell that to my comp sci professors :P
If they knew what they were doing, they would not be teachers.
I don't like windows media player for a lot of reasons, the most important being the fact that you cannot skip the commercials on dvds. The only two players that seem to work even worse are Quicktime and Gom...oh, and nero's media player makes them all look good.
VLC isn't perfect, and they need to add bluray support...but it is still the best player I have found for individual files.
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KSib
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22. December 2009 @ 04:28 |
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You can't? I remember being able to on a few by right clicking and hitting Menu, maybe they changed something since then. I've also used AnyDVD in the past to get rid of all those ads and go straight to the menu. What a good app :)
That teachers comment made me smile and then doubt my education :P
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22. December 2009 @ 14:04 |
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VLC aint all that.. all u need is the proper codecs and you can play any type of media with pretty much any player..
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22. December 2009 @ 14:32 |
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Originally posted by lxfactor:
VLC aint all that.. all u need is the proper codecs and you can play any type of media with pretty much any player..
...and then wait until you install all the stupid codec packs and splitters and they start conflicting...VLC IS all that just for the fact that it requires no codec installation.Hell, you can even have it on a thumb drive, with no installation...
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22. December 2009 @ 17:27 |
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It's weird cuz I've always heard about these conflicting codec problems, but I've never had them any time I used K-Lite Codec pack on any machine. Weird. I just don't like needing to have 2 players when I can just have one and a codec pack. Don't get me wrong, for any other person I'd tell them to DL VLC in the off chance the codec pack does screw up their codecs cuz I can't be there to fix it for them, but for me... I just want the codecs.
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22. December 2009 @ 17:45 |
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Originally posted by KSib:
It's weird cuz I've always heard about these conflicting codec problems, but I've never had them any time I used K-Lite Codec pack on any machine.
Same here. As to players, i only use VLC and Media Player Classic (as supplied by K-Lite). I don't own a Mac though.
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22. December 2009 @ 20:55 |
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