vlc
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As we reported, VLC 2.0 shipped last week. With it comes a new UI and experimental Blu-Ray support. Sadly, one of the changes with this release makes it impossible for third party applications to take advantage of VLC's DVD decryption capability. [quote]Starting with VLC 2.0, libdvdcss is no longer available as an individual dylib in the VLC application package, which means HandBrake can no longer use VLC's libdvdcss for DVD decryption.[/quote] Unfortunately, that means that ripping DVDs in Handbrake is no longer as easy as dragging VLC.app and Handbrake.app into ... more
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VLC, the popular open source media player, will be hitting the 2.0 release this week, and with it comes some significant UI changes. [quote]VLC 2.0's interface for Mac is dramatically different from its previous revision, both technically and usage-wise. Playlist and video output share the same window, service discovery modules can be easily accessed through a sidebar and various audio + video filters are available through the respective panels. Besides that, the interface is noticeably faster and easily expandable. Speaking of that, we also added support for VLC's lua-based extensions, which ... more
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After Snow Leopard was released, it became very clear which applications were 64 bit capable, and which were not. For chunky applications, like video transcoding, there was a rush to make the apps 64 bit capable. Even if the 64 bit label didn't improve the application's performance, nobody wanted to be left out of the gold rush. Unfortunately, that lead to a few problems. Applications like HandBrake and FairMount rely on libraries that are included with VLC. If you're running a 64 bit build of HandBrake, you'll ... more
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[Download This Episode] In this episode, Grant talks about VLC 1.0. [01.7 MB] [0:03:30] [Hosted by: Josh Schnell & Grant Brunner]
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[Download] [02.2 MB] [0:04:40] Hosted by: Josh Schnell & Grant Brunner In this episode, Grant talks about VLC, Quicktime, iTunes, DVD Player, and Adobe Media Player. Josh adds that Perian is a great codec package for Quicktime.
