Comments on: VLC Media Player: One billion downloads and counting

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Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:59:16 +0000

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By: Lantz

Lantz — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:44:11 +0000

I used QT with Perian (farewell) for just about anything. However I use VLC with Fairmount to mount DVDs as unencrypted folders on my desktop for various use.

By: John Halbig

John Halbig — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:35:50 +0000

It was funny to watch the SLOOOOOOW increment of the version number as it marched to 1.0. Indeed, as it has added codecs I use other players less and less, and wonder what the deal with Apple is.

One of Apple’s biggest mis-steps was Indeo 5 video. For YEARS the only way to play those videos was to fire up classic under OS X, as the QuickTime plug-in would not work under OS X. When Apple dropped support for classic I began to consider using a VM running Windows just to convert those files. For many years VLC’s compatibility chart said that it was never going to support that codec… until they suddenly did.

Bless the VLC coders, and long live VLC!

By: Bill Dalzell

Bill Dalzell — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:18:44 +0000

I have been using VLC Media Player for many years on my Macs both at home and at work. For me it was just great to find a player, free yet, that would play all those proprietary codecs that otherwise wouldn’t play on the Mac. I’m glad to see VideoLAN getting the recognition they so richly deserve.

By: Bob Forsberg

Bob Forsberg — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:47:47 +0000

Great player but lacks the “jump” feature…10 second advance.