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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac

Posted by timothy on from the vlc-generally-rocks dept.

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."

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  1. Moot by zokuga · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple is poised to take over the whole video world in the next year. It'll be windows that needs the fancy VLC to watch Mac-made movies

    1. Re:Moot by Selfbain · · Score: 4, Funny

      So... you're saying next year will be the year of Mac?

      That sounds oddly familiar.

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      Well, it has never been successfully tested.
    2. Re:Moot by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

      On the desktop!

      And gaming! I predict 2010 will be the year Apple becomes the gaming platform of choice for trust-fund babies, unpublished writers who hang at Intelligentsia and men who tweeze their eyebrows.

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      You are welcome on my lawn.
  2. Sick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's going to be a million and two volunteers now since this is ./'d