VLC for Mac might be abandoned

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d0b33

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Indeed we have a kind of lack of manpower on the Mac interface of VLC.

The VLC core (in C) and most other plugins work pretty fine, just not the OS X GUI (1% of the code of VLC) in Objective-C.

That explains the issues you have seen in latest version of VLC 1.0.x on mac, and the drop of 64bits version in 1.0.3

In consequence, VLC on Mac might use the Qt interface in the future.

We may have an alternative in a near future: stay tuned.
Apple

Finally, we have a few issues, since Apple doesn't want us on the Mac platform and is blocking us a lot, and refuses to explain why.
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:cry: This is sad, VLC is a life safer, I am able to play DTS DVDs with it, the DVD app does not even support it.
 
MadMailMan said:
And Apple takes another leaf out of M$s notebook. Guess it's time to admit defeat and get a PC? :p
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Over these retards making every thread a mac vs pc thread. Many alternatives to VLC. Will b sad to see it go, but doesn't mean ur current version won't work.
 
VLC will still work. It's not like the DVD spec changes you n00bs. It's all muxed MPEG2 files.
DVD Video has been a fixed standard since the 90s.

As for playback of video, Matroska support on VLC was always lame. VLC still plays all the H264, AVC, DivX, xViD, MPEG2 content out there.
 
MadMailMan said:
And Apple takes another leaf out of M$s notebook.
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Please explain? :confused:

Videolan.org said:
Finally, we have a few issues, since Apple doesn't want us on the Mac platform and is blocking us a lot, and refuses to explain why.
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This is quite a strong statement. How is Apple "blocking" them?

Personally, I don't use VLC much. I use a DVD player and TV for watching DVDs and Quicktime + Perian copes with all my video needs on my MBP. I keep MPlayer around for the odd thing that doesn't work, but I don't recall that happening much, if at all, over the last two years.
 
No need to bust out in :cry:.

I still use an older version of VLC in Windows because I prefer it. You guys will just have to stick with what works. It's not like you've ever been on the "bleeding edge.":rolleyes:
Except I believe you either invented the mouse or GUI (or both). Did we ever thank you for that? Well thanks (again):p
 
Sputnik said:
Guess, I'll have to check it out. I've been using vlc to watch .mkv's mostly.
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Well VLC will still work. There is no need to panic. The current version on your machine will still play .mkv!! Its not like they can click a button and delete it from ur machine!
 
koffiejunkie said:
Personally, I don't use VLC much. I use a DVD player and TV for watching DVDs and Quicktime + Perian copes with all my video needs on my MBP. I keep MPlayer around for the odd thing that doesn't work, but I don't recall that happening much, if at all, over the last two years.
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The DVD Player app is "nice" but very limited, also if you have the internal optical drive removed it will refuse to work, you need to hack(luckily $ sudo nano ... is something I'm used to because of my Linux experience so it's easy for me.) the app to allow external drives without an internal present. Another fail is no DTS support, VLC plays DTS perfectly on my macbook with the DVD app it's just silence.
 
MadMailMan said:
Because this....

Finally, we have a few issues, since Apple doesn't want us on the Mac platform and is blocking us a lot, and refuses to explain why.
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is the kind of thing we expect from M$ and not the "good folk" at Apple.
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Except that's a completely unsubstantiated claim at this point. I thought you might know more about this.
 
Apple probably coming with a new player that will blow VLC out the water :P
 
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