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VLC for Mac Development on Life Support
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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There are now effectively zero Mac developers of VLC according to this post on the Video Lan Forum, a situation which the author calls critical. This sounds like bad news for the health of alternative Mac video viewers.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Clinically Insane
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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That's unfortunate. I'm not sure why VLC always seems to have so much trouble getting Mac devs. I know the platform has a much lower ratio of coders to users, but VLC seems to be uncommonly hard to find people for.
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Chuck
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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I should hope that the core of the app would be written using cross-platform code, and that the only part that would be affected by the lack of Mac devs would be the interface (which any Joe on the street could fix up and submit a patch should the need arise).
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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How many programs do you know with truly cross-platform code so reliable that you can test it on one platform and feel reasonably certain that it will work anywhere?
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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VLC is still alpha, isn't it? We've always been the ones doing the testing anyway.
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Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
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version 1 came out a few months ago or more, so they're out of the decade-long (or close to it) sub-1.0 phase.
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Clinically Insane
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It's not labeled as alpha anywhere I can see. And I don't know about you, but I've never gone into VLC with a debugger and tracked down any problems, much less written and tested a patch, so our testing is of limited utility as far as having a working Mac version goes.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2005
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That's very disappointing to hear about VLC especially since it finally has reached the version 1 final stage.
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