Re:VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out
by travisjeffery on Thursday December 17, 2009 @12:38AM
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Perian and QT have definitely not replaced VLC at all. I'll give you one example: VLC's filters kicks the functionality that QT can give square in the nuts. I often apply VLC's Audio tempo scalar synched with rate filter for listening to sped up lectures. That feature alone makes VLC necessary for me, not to mention all the other stuff it does.
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Re:VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out
by justinl on Thursday December 17, 2009 @01:02AM
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VLC is also used by other programs (such as Handbrake) to perform decryption of protected DVDs.
Re:VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out
by ajg1977 on Thursday December 17, 2009 @03:21AM
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Technically it's not. Programs use the libdvdcss functionality built into VLC, but there are other alternatives (such as Fairmount) that also use libdvdcss. VLC is just more likely to be installed. Indeed, if you're running 64-bit Handbrake then the lack of a (stable) 64-bit version of VLC makes Fairmount a better option.