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VideoLAN Releases VLC 0.8.6d
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Posted by: Brian
The VideoLAN team has released VLC 0.8.6d. The new version of the popular media player improves compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard. This includes the following fixes and enhancements:
- Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
- Improved Video Output compatibility
- Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
- Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
- Support for current Ogg file formats
- Improved H.264 encoding
VLC 0.8.6d requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The download weighs in at 23.4MB.
http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/824.html |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: VideoLAN Releases VLC 0.8.6d |
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| admin wrote: | - Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
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I mentioned this wackiness the other week. I'm glad they fixed it.
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| I'm still a little choppy at full-screen with my MacBook. The rest seems to be working fine. |
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the update royally screwed me!
1) Now when a movie is done, it remains in fullscreen and just black.
2) if I select "screen 2" and hit command "F" it goes full screen on whatever screen the mini window is on, not to the screen it is supposed to got to
I know it doesn't sound like much but, after using VLC for so long and it working like that, this just sucks.
Now I have to actually quit VLC to remove the Fullscreen window from my 2nd screen and I have to physically move the mini window to the second screen before going fullscreen...
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| hackersmovie wrote: | | 1) Now when a movie is done, it remains in fullscreen and just black. |
Does it do this with all file types? Mine seems to be going back to the main menu just fine.
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| curt wrote: | | hackersmovie wrote: | | 1) Now when a movie is done, it remains in fullscreen and just black. |
Does it do this with all file types? Mine seems to be going back to the main menu just fine. |
about 98% of my videos are in .avi containers. I'll try some others but it's the .avi's that are most important. I'll also try crappin' the App and reinstalling it....
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| This actually feels like the most stable version of VLC that I've played around with in a while, so no complaints here. |
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Awesome.
I have had no issues. |
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Hmm..I cannot scan/fast-forward through FLV files. It stops the video. Anyone know a fix?
On another note--what the heck is the problem with the Nightlies archive? They haven't had an update since Nov 2nd.
No nightlies and yet a new release seems a bit...odd? |
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| therealduckie wrote: | | Hmm..I cannot scan/fast-forward through FLV files. It stops the video. Anyone know a fix? |
until you've "cached" the video (played through it, and only in that session), I don't think seeking in FLV files has ever worked.
Flash video has been a bane on the world wide web. sure, the quicktime/real/windowsmedia debate was really stupid, but once quicktime started using MPEG-4 and windows media player included MPEG-4 support, there was never any reason not to just use MPEG-4 for everything. now we have MPEG-4 wrapped in FLV which makes playback retarded-slow with terrible Flash-based interfaces. plus, Flash is proprietary. ugh.</rant>
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| zuzu wrote: | until you've "cached" the video (played through it, and only in that session), I don't think seeking in FLV files has ever worked.
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It works fine in the nightlies, hence my other question. That's reason #2 why I miss the updates to the nightlies...#1 being new features like the new full screen mode I have known about and been using since October. </snobbery> |
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