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VLC Media Player 0.8.4 is out
mctk writes "This new release features many improvements including a new VLC cone, new Mac OS X wizard and extend controls dialogs, tree playlist skins2 support, HTTP interface CGI handling, linux binary codecs loader, UPnP and Bonjour service discovery, shoutcast stream forwarding, new languages... Have a look here for the full list of changes. Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page." Always been one of my favorites on any platform.
mplayer is a command-line program that sometimes opens up a window to play movies. The OS X gui just happens to make it easier for people who are too dumb to type "mplayer Movie.file".
As for the keybindings inside the GUI, I love them. I used mplayer under Linux and it works the same under OS X. VLC has a bloated GUI that makes easy tasks hard and hard tasks impossible.
q to quit, arrows to seek, f for fullscreen. What more could you want?
If there's something more that you want, then code it yourself. That's the point of OSS... you can code the features you want. Bitching and whining like a fucking crybaby is not part of the deal.
BTW, you could have saved yourself hours of randomly hitting keys (like a monkey trying to reproduce Shakespeare) if you had read the fucking manual.
I think what we've learned from this post is that you are a complete idiot. Please turn in your computer at the nearest police station... or something.
My other car is first.
> I haven't been able to find ANY documentation as to what the default keyboard shortcuts are for Mplayer on ANY platform.
Use the source, Luke. That's the point of OSS... you can open up the code in emacs and see what it's doing. If that's too hard, then maybe you shouldn't be using a computer.
My other car is first.
Which is no doubt illegal under the DMCA... at the very least, you will receive a stern lecture on the ethics of not obeying region codes from Lord Jobs himself -- and knowing you Mac fags, you'll all wet yourselves and promise to never *ever* do it again, your majesty.
And then when the next version of the Mac prevents you doing it at all, thank Lord Jobs for profusely for removing any temptation.