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  1. Re:Mark parent "troll" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

    since the MPlayer developers develop ffmpeg.

    I've never heard this, and it surprises me. Mplayer ships with mencoder - and although both FFmpeg and mencoder use libvacodec (and I'd bet that FFmpeg and mencoder developers also contribute to libvacodec), it seems odd that a development team would work on two competing projects. Do you have any links for this?

    But VLC has a significantly better UI

    Obviously it's subjective - but, have you tried SMPlayer (Linux/BSD/Windows), or if you use OSX, MPlayer OSX Extended? I have nothing against VLC (it beats everything at streaming, hands-down), but Mplayer seems to give nicer playback quality, has more options, and the UIs I linked are closer to their respective platforms' look-n-feel (the most obvious example is that VLC UI is MDI and Windows/OSX/Linux don't particularly embrace MDI). HTH, HAND.

  2. Re:Mplayer OSX Extended by plasmacutter · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

    Sad to see VLC struggling, but there's always Mplayer OSX Extended for the mac. Get the extra codec pack and it can play anything!

    Compare 1080p H.264 matroska playback in vlc to mplayer:

    on my macbook pro (exactly a year old at this point) vlc plays it without a stutter, mplayer extended will drop frames like an epileptic. Im sure they both drop frames, but VLC does so much more gracefully, resulting in no noticeable distortion, while mplayer extended makes it obvious (and incredibly annoying) to the viewer. Nothing like watching blade runner final cut and being slowly infuriated by those epic scenes being subjected to massive chop and screen tears.

  3. Mplayer OSX Extended by The+J+Kid · · Score: 5, Informative · on Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

    Sad to see VLC struggling, but there's always Mplayer OSX Extended for the mac. Get the extra codec pack and it can play anything!

  4. Re:What every player is missing by ThePhilips · · Score: 3, Informative · on Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released

    No. On Mac OS X best shot is the the MPlayer OSX Extended. At H.264 playback it's better than vanilla CCCP, but not as good as commercial CoreAVC.

    VLC sadly is as hopeless as it was before. When I heard that they finally supported ASS subtitles I was excited to try it out - only to find that it still sucks at any contemporary media job.

  5. Re:So it plays back media by 4v4l0n42 · · Score: 1 · on VLC 1.0.0 Released

    I am not afraid to stand up for VLC for I've never found something that has worked so flawlessly crossplatform

    How about MPlayer and its various Grafical User Interfaces?

  6. Re:Better than mplayer? by skinlayers · · Score: 5, Informative · on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better

    Sorry... though I appreciate VLC, I think its far from the best media player. My vote would go to the numerous incarnation of MPlayer. From Xbox Media Center to SMPlayer on Linux and Windows to MPlayer OSX Extended on Mac OS X, MPlayer has always been able to play whatever weird codec or container I toss at it. Meanwhile, every time I've attempted to use VLC (mainly on OS X) I've become frustrated by hangs and crashes... Maybe I'll hate this version a little less?

  7. Re:Doesn't support Dirac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on FFmpeg Finally Releases Long-Awaited Version 0.5

    I recently came across MPlayer OS X Extended, which is almost as good as VLC is on OS X - unlike the normal mplayer builds. You might want to check it out if you haven't tried it before.

  8. Re:The question is- by frogblast · · Score: 1 · on FFmpeg Finally Releases Long-Awaited Version 0.5

    Have you tried MPlayer Extended: http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/

    though i do agree that overall the video player lineup on os x is pretty weak