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Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad

Posted by timothy on from the might-make-'em-temptinger dept.

Stoobalou writes "The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to throw at it — should appear some time next week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple. The Open Source Video Lan Client has been tweaked to run on the iPod by software developer Applidium."

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  1. Re:Android by korean.ian · · Score: 5, Funny

    OT:
    I'm holding out for an Android phone with a flash *and* picture quality as good as an iPhone. The Samsung Galaxy S is the closest but no flash and no image stabilization. VLC would be a must it it existed but I'll setting for a phone/MP3/Camera for now. I'm sick of nursing multiple batteries/chargers and SD cards.

    I do not care to join the growing iPhone penile colony.

    Are you ejaculating that Apple has erected a large user base of which you do not want to be a member?

  2. Re:I missed something by Miseph · · Score: 5, Funny

    You sir are a God among men. Short Men, who aren't terribly bright... more like dwarves with learning disabilities. You are a God among Drawves With Learning Disabilities. Hmm... doesn't quite roll off the tongue that way, I think we should stick with the original, but imply the meaning of the second. Right then.

    But seriously, that was a troll par excellence. Your bridge must be enormous, and located in the farthest, darkest, foulest depths of the wilderness simply to accommodate your awesome power.

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  3. Re:summary and article incorrect: iPod != iPad by sootman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The iPad is just a big iPod touch--in the same way that a swimming pool is "just a big bathtub." People who say that tend to not realize that size alone makes totally different things possible. (Cue corny jokes in 3... 2... )

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  4. Re:GPL Violation? by coolsnowmen · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a problem, I answer rhetorical questions even though I know they are.
    My abacus is can represent 13 decimal digits. The binary number required to do that is 44 bits. So my abacus is can store about 5 1/2 bytes.