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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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22. December 2009 @ 23:19 |
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I just realized the fundamenta problem that most of the programmers probably figured out long ago...
Apple users love apple products; even when they are complete trash, such as iTunes and Quicktime. It does not matter if you make something that is better in every way; they will not use it because it is not made by apple.
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xnonsuchx
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23. December 2009 @ 01:56 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I just realized the fundamenta problem that most of the programmers probably figured out long ago...
Apple users love apple products; even when they are complete trash, such as iTunes and Quicktime. It does not matter if you make something that is better in every way; they will not use it because it is not made by apple.
It's the Windows versions that are arguably trash...they work much better on Mac OS.
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23. December 2009 @ 03:33 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I just realized the fundamenta problem that most of the programmers probably figured out long ago...
Apple users love apple products; even when they are complete trash, such as iTunes and Quicktime. It does not matter if you make something that is better in every way; they will not use it because it is not made by apple.
It's the Windows versions that are arguably trash...they work much better on Mac OS.
Indeed.
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23. December 2009 @ 03:51 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I just realized the fundamenta problem that most of the programmers probably figured out long ago...
Apple users love apple products; even when they are complete trash, such as iTunes and Quicktime. It does not matter if you make something that is better in every way; they will not use it because it is not made by apple.
It's the Windows versions that are arguably trash...they work much better on Mac OS.
They could not work any worse...more than one person has sugested the conspiracy theory that apple intentionaly broke these programs in a short-sighted attempt to make windows look bad. The file format support in windows quicktime is virtual non-existant, and iTunes is super-slow, plus it automaticaly re-encodes MP3s into an even-more-lossy apple file with DRM. I hate Windows Media Player...but at least it does not destroy my archive.
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xnonsuchx
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23. December 2009 @ 04:02 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I just realized the fundamenta problem that most of the programmers probably figured out long ago...
Apple users love apple products; even when they are complete trash, such as iTunes and Quicktime. It does not matter if you make something that is better in every way; they will not use it because it is not made by apple.
It's the Windows versions that are arguably trash...they work much better on Mac OS.
They could not work any worse...more than one person has sugested the conspiracy theory that apple intentionaly broke these programs in a short-sighted attempt to make windows look bad. The file format support in windows quicktime is virtual non-existant, and iTunes is super-slow, plus it automaticaly re-encodes MP3s into an even-more-lossy apple file with DRM. I hate Windows Media Player...but at least it does not destroy my archive.
Odd...I haven't have ANY of those problems w/ iTunes on my Windows computers, so I have no idea what you're doing with it. The only issues I ever had (other than being slower on Windows than Mac OS and having more limited format support in Windows, though it handles any formats I really use much) are some video/sound driver issues (which turned out to be the drivers, not the software).
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25. December 2009 @ 01:49 |
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Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I just realized the fundamenta problem that most of the programmers probably figured out long ago...
Apple users love apple products; even when they are complete trash, such as iTunes and Quicktime. It does not matter if you make something that is better in every way; they will not use it because it is not made by apple.
It's the Windows versions that are arguably trash...they work much better on Mac OS.
They could not work any worse...more than one person has sugested the conspiracy theory that apple intentionaly broke these programs in a short-sighted attempt to make windows look bad. The file format support in windows quicktime is virtual non-existant, and iTunes is super-slow, plus it automaticaly re-encodes MP3s into an even-more-lossy apple file with DRM. I hate Windows Media Player...but at least it does not destroy my archive.
Odd...I haven't have ANY of those problems w/ iTunes on my Windows computers, so I have no idea what you're doing with it. The only issues I ever had (other than being slower on Windows than Mac OS and having more limited format support in Windows, though it handles any formats I really use much) are some video/sound driver issues (which turned out to be the drivers, not the software).
I think that they removed the auto-reencode "feature" after massive users complaints. As for the windows slowing, it is quite noticable even with the current version...it is worse than enabling the indexing service; even when iTunes is not running. I know several people with iPhones who have to install iTunes to do updates...once the updates are done, they have to uninstall iTunes to get their performance back.
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