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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by JohnTHaller on Thursday July 18, 2013 @01:50PM (#6065245)
MPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things like SMPlayer (Windows-specific front-end and MPlayer backend) and the like. MPC-HC is pretty popular in the Windows world. But neither of them come close to approaching VLC's userbase. We make SMPlayer, MPC-HC and VLC all available in portable form at PortableApps.com alongside each other and VLC's downloads blow the other two away.
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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by Osmium on Thursday July 18, 2013 @01:58PM (#6065314)
There are some MPlayer-powered releases for OS X too, e.g. http://mplayerx.org

There are others too, though I'm not sure what the differences are.

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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by JohnTHaller on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:16PM (#6067926)
There are a bunch of them on Windows, too. It's hard to keep track of them all.
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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by simcop2387 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @03:06PM (#6065733)
smplayer isn't windows only. It does work on linux fairly well too. That being said, I have grown to like VLC more lately.
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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by JohnTHaller on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:16PM (#6067924)
Quite right, my mistake. The point still stands, though, as Windows (the dominant OS by a huge margin) has no stable releases of the base MPlayer app, so there's no one version people can grab. Whereas VLC runs quite well on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Re:VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-... by simcop2387 on Saturday July 20, 2013 @10:14PM (#6077507)
Yep, that's the same reason I recommend VLC. It's definitely improved since the days of 2005 or so when I used it to stream dvds over a lan to a machine that didn't have a DVD drive. I wonder if anyone has screenshots of it over the years...
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