Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
Thanx guys, My paybax have never been smoother and sharper. Brilliant. NEC was impressed. Geoff b On 10 Jul 2009, at 5:29 AM, iJohn wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:17 PM, tortoisecymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: In this case I am not sure what the strategy means. It could mean the end of ppc support, it could mean that the project as a whole is considered complete and the team is breaking up, in which case someone may do minor updates or take it over and/or big changes in the program will ensue shortly. Well, the following is a brief excerpt from the web site: The VideoLAN project is pleased to announce the release of the first version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.0. This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions. I haven't noticed yet what the differences are from the 0.9 releases, but I trust that they are there. As for what platform it runs on ... my primary use of VLC has been on Windows. I only started using it on OS X a few months ago when I got a MacBook. -irrational john --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [G3-5]VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On 7/7/09 12:02 PM, Len Gerstel at lgers...@gmail.com wrote: VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. http://www.videolan.org But it has been crashing when I am tryong to run it here on my Beige G3 with 6MB VRAM onboard video and 512MB RAM...:-/ -- MaGioZal. http://fotolog.com/_magiozal/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [G3-5]VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Jul 9, 2009, at 1:38 AM, MaGioZal wrote: But it has been crashing when I am trying to run it here on my Beige G3 with 6MB VRAM onboard video and 512MB RAM...:-/ Read the VLC instructions. v1.0.0 is LEOPARD ONLY. This means that ALL G3 Macs can only use v.0.9.9a, and only if they have 10.4.11. You can get the PPC version of 0.9.9a here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html Also - it is possible to install Leopard on Beige, but you'd need a G4 CPU, a Radeon or nVidia PCI card, and some persistence. See instructions here: http://www.macmod.com/software-mods/mac-os/1571-leopard-on-pre-pci --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Jul 7, 8:02 am, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: In an extremely rare milestone, a valuable open source project has released a 1.0.0 version. Its not rare really. Some developers prefer not to number 1.0 or above where others would be up to version 3. Its just a style of doing things. For instance if OSX had been versioned in this style 10.1 would have been maybe 10.0.1 and 10.2, 10.0.2, etc. Some developers actually stop around 0.2 or 0.3, believe it or not. In this case I am not sure what the strategy means. It could mean the end of ppc support, it could mean that the project as a whole is considered complete and the team is breaking up, in which case someone may do minor updates or take it over and/or big changes in the program will ensue shortly. The program is called VLC, Video Lan is the project name. It is basicly a Linux program ported to osX, which means the culture is a bit different for some mac users --- It even works on PPC, but only for 10.5. VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. Myself I use 0.8.6 in Tiger and it works great, I see no need to upgrade. Also my experience says never use anything with a double zero ending, but that may be a personal preference. Anyway the 1.0 thing means very little positive significant other than perhaps there was some publicity pressure due to ignorance in the OSX world... They have been saying for a long time, don't expect VLC to work very well on a g3. The best thing about VLC is their excellent g4 support (besides the freedom derived from free software, I mean) -- that enables one to play many things on a slower g4 that would be skippy with other players. There is a plug-in for the 0.8.6 version BTW (not in newer versions currently) which might be able to serve as a better flash player in browsers ... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:17 PM, tortoisecymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: In this case I am not sure what the strategy means. It could mean the end of ppc support, it could mean that the project as a whole is considered complete and the team is breaking up, in which case someone may do minor updates or take it over and/or big changes in the program will ensue shortly. Well, the following is a brief excerpt from the web site: The VideoLAN project is pleased to announce the release of the first version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.0. This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions. I haven't noticed yet what the differences are from the 0.9 releases, but I trust that they are there. As for what platform it runs on ... my primary use of VLC has been on Windows. I only started using it on OS X a few months ago when I got a MacBook. -irrational john --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Jul 7, 12:40 pm, John Martz zjo...@gmail.com wrote: VideoLan is somewhat amazing to me. Given all the (video) players out there from all the different companies, the only one I have had a consistently good experience with is VideoLan. To fall back on a perhaps over used phrase, it just works. At least for me. To use VideoLan, do you trash all other video player plug ins? Or do they just live peacefully side by side? If there are more than one video player, which takes precedence? Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Al Poulin wrote: On Jul 7, 12:40 pm, John Martz zjo...@gmail.com wrote: VideoLan is somewhat amazing to me. Given all the (video) players out there from all the different companies, the only one I have had a consistently good experience with is VideoLan. To fall back on a perhaps over used phrase, it just works. At least for me. To use VideoLan, do you trash all other video player plug ins? Or do they just live peacefully side by side? If there are more than one video player, which takes precedence? VideoLan is an application, not a plug-in, and so precedence is like every other application on a Mac. It is determined by what the file metadata says, that is, what you see as the default program when you do 'Get Info' on a file. It's no different than having both Photoshop and Graphics Converter, or Firefox and Safari on your Mac. Embedded players will still use whatever Quicktime plugins that are present on your Mac. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
In an extremely rare milestone, a valuable open source project has released a 1.0.0 version. It even works on PPC, but only for 10.5. Users of 10.4 are stuck with 0.9.9a. VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. http://www.videolan.org Len --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On 7/7/09 12:40 PM, John Martz of zjo...@gmail.com sent On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Len Gerstellgers...@gmail.com wrote: VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. http://www.videolan.org Thanks. Downloading now. VideoLan is somewhat amazing to me. Etc I can't say that about the players that come with either Windows or OS X. (Though the WMP in Windows 7 seems to suck a bit less than previous versions of WMP ... that's about as generous as I can be with the faint praise). -irrational john You are (still) generous indeed. My sentiments exactly. Best regards, Dana --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Len Gerstellgers...@gmail.com wrote: VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. http://www.videolan.org Thanks. Downloading now. VideoLan is somewhat amazing to me. Given all the (video) players out there from all the different companies, the only one I have had a consistently good experience with is VideoLan. To fall back on a perhaps over used phrase, it just works. At least for me. I can't say that about the players that come with either Windows or OS X. (Though the WMP in Windows 7 seems to suck a bit less than previous versions of WMP ... that's about as generous as I can be with the faint praise). -irrational john --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Dana Collins wrote: VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. Too bad they don't have same for 10.4 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0
On Jul 7, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Nestamicky wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Dana Collins wrote: VideoLan has released version 1.0.0 of its software, one of the more robust and format inclusive video players for OS X. Too bad they don't have same for 10.4 I tried to use VLC 1.0.0 on my Dual 533 DA under Leopard 10.5.7, and it played the original VIDEO_TS file fine. I have a HandBrake conversion to m4v (Quicktime/mp4 I believe its also called), and it didn't play that well at all. Quicktime plays it ok, just not VLC. Dual 533 speed issue? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
