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VLC 1.0.0 Released
rift321 writes "VLC media player, which we all know for simplifying the playback of pretty much any codec out there, has finally released version 1.0.0. Here's a quick list of improvements: live recording, instant pausing and frame-by-frame support, finer speed controls, new HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0), new formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS) and major improvements in many formats, new Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder, video scaling in fullscreen, RTSP Trickplay support, zipped file playback, customizable toolbars, easier encoding GUI in Qt interface, better integration in Gtk environments, MTP devices on Linux, and AirTunes streaming."
VLC is a nice student project, but it's got problems. They can't get the mutexes right. Something that fundamental, and they screw it up. Imagine how bad the bugs are when they deal with non-trivial problems.
I prefer the frog. Ogg Frog. It's cross platform, GPL, rock solid, and designed/written by a professional with years of experience. Ogg Frog.
Oooh, another cutting edge video player that likely wont be able to play a 2 year old 1080p h246 file I have on my 6 month old quad core. I could be wrong, but I dont see any notes about this supporting multiple cores ona windows machine.
Well, if you're too dumb to use a computer, you can always use the build/package of someone else, an continue playing with your Playmobil/VTech computer.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
(Yes, I am sure I could dive into the mplayer code, locate the closed-captioning bits, extract them, and submit them to both VLC and xine as patches. I'll get right on that, mmm-hmmm!)
So I cd into my mplayer tree, do a nice "grep -R caption *", and what do I find in sub_cc.c ?
"uses source from the xine closed captions decoder"
Wow. Someone had too much mod points, and decided to go on a flamewar, by modding all my posts on this story as troll or flamebait.
Have you really nothing better to do, and are you really not getting the humor in my posts?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I definitely agree. Compiling programs is not user friendly for regular users who just want to get things working right away and have them run out of the box. Linux really does need to work on this, and also on better backwards compatability. There is definitely a situation where kernel developers system developers, etc, just cant understand the fact that normal users dont want to have to wonder about if their hardware will work, have to figure out of software will work on one of twenty linux distro and kernel version combinations, deal with 20 different compilations of a driver or software program for different linux versions. they just want to download the software, click install, and use it. Users should be able to use one version of a driver supplied by their hardware vendor on any installation of Linux with complete backwards compatability, and any packaged software with complete backwards compatability without having to deal with compilation and configuration marathons and shaninagans. Most users arent interested in messing around with compilers and so on. They dont want to mess around with configuration files. Either Linux developers are arrogant bout regular users or they just dont care and want Linux to remain a fringe OS.