Hi. Here is an article from The Unofficial Apple Web Log about the VLC situation. Darcy
Begin forwarded message: > Date: December 17, 2009 1:00:00 PM EST > Subject: Development of VLC for Mac 64-bit is on hold, project needs > developers > Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) > Author: Michael Grothaus > > Filed under: Multimedia, Video, Freeware, Developer > > Development on the 64-bit version of VLC Player for Mac has hit the pause > button. The Videolan team is looking for Mac development talent to help move > the project forward, and revamp the program's interface to be more Mac-like. > While the team says that reports of VLC Mac's death are 'greatly > exaggerated,' they could definitely use some help. > > As we've mentioned before, VLC is a free, open source media player that > supports various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many > more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols. While the 32-bit > version still works fine on Snow Leopard, the 64- bit version (which briefly > appeared as 1.0.3, only to disappear again with 1.0.4) is intended to be > higher-performance; it also would work more seamlessly with the 64-bit > version ofHandbrake. > > The news of VLC for Mac's 64-bit freezeout started today with this post on > videolan.org: > This is going to sound like a PBS sponsorship drive, but it needs to be said: > > While VLC is an open source project provided to you free of charge, as with > other open source projects, its existence depends on everyone who provides > support to the project. This support can come in many forms, such as: > - joining the team and contributing code > - spending time in the forum helping out other VLC users > - making a donation > > Every bit helps, since without it the community dies and the project with it. > > As mentioned [earlier] we are in desperate need of Mac developers who can > help maintain the Mac side of VLC. If you or someone you know is in position > to join the team then please let us know. Until we have more Mac developers > then the 64-bit version of VLC for MacOS X will be on hold! > Though the new QuickTime X Player has much room for improvement, I've gotten > quite used to it and watch all my movie files in it save WMV (which QuickTime > plays via the Flip4Mac plugin). From some reason, QTX requires WMV files to > go through a loading process before you can skim through the video. On VLC > there is no loading process for WMV files before you can skim. This is only > one of the many benefits of using VLC, as I'm sure many of our readers can > attest. > > There are still some alternatives to VLC, including 3ivX, FFmpeg and Perian. > There's also this little preference pane to make QTX more enjoyable. But > these are all alternatives, not replacements for this great app. Here's > hoping that the holiday spirit will inspire a few Mac devs to step up and > keep VLC moving forward. > TUAWDevelopment of VLC for Mac 64-bit is on hold, project needs developers > originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 > 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. > > Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments > > > > Apple - opensource - Mac OS X - QuickTime - Multimedia > Read more… > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
