VLC 0.8.5 released with Intel Mac, Growl support, many improvements

post processing doesnt seem to work anymore. choosing it will freeze the movie screen.

the reason is because the binary is 15MB of the 35MB download. a universal binary would raise the download size to 50MB.

also, xcode or not, anyone can make universal binaries. there are command line tools to assemble and reassemble them. its called "lipo"

Nah, they didn't use Sparkle. A shame, too, since their update solution freezes the program when I try to use it. o_O

As far as WMV - they cant do it because there is not a free codec for Mac that they can incoporate. That is what they have claimed on their site for a while anyway.

They would have to use the Flip 4 Mac one.

Although, since it is a Quicktime component, why the hell cant they call from within VLC for playback?

Either way, VLC completely rocks.

"Can anyone explain why one would compile two separate versions versus an universal binary."

Maybe they aren't using XCode, and can't generate one.

When o when is VLC going to have

a) WMV support - I hate playing videos in non-fullscreen mode, and I'm too tight to splash out on Quicktime Pro. Also, it'd be much better to have one program for all videos. If anyone knows how to get WMVs to work, please let me know!

b) On-screen controls - You know, when you're in fullscreen mode, to rewind or whatever without exiting fullscreen.

That is all :)

Sorry, no skins support on Mac OS X.

Don't use the mozilla/safari plugin -- playing streams still very buggy. Stick to QuickTime augmented with divx/xvid/wmv3 support.

VLC is not a universal binary because that would require a move to Xcode. VLC currently has a very flaky cross-platform build system -- so flaky because it's so portable. http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=16725

To compile universal binaries they need to use gcc 4.0 which did not become available until 10.3.9. Panther users who haven't downloaded all their point upgrades and all jaguar, puma and cheeetah users cannot run universal binaries becuase their machines only support code compiled with gcc 3.3. To maintain some backwards compatibilty some programmers are choosing to compile intel builds with 4.0 but stay with 3.3 for ppc. This is why it took firefox so long to release an intel version, they were trying to fit 4.0 code and 3.3 code into the same universal binary. I don't know if they ever got it or what solution they used.

Great news, thanks. I've been wating for a VLC update for a while now.