Development of VLC for Mac 64-bit is on hold, project needs developers

i tried every video player for mac and must say:

vlc
playback: increase the cache a little and it's smooth. the best so far.
subs: low quality, few customizing options, font size changes with aspect ratio.

mplayer osx extended

playback: good. some quirks now and then, even by increasing the cache.

subs: good quality even with a few customizing options, font size changes with aspect ratio.

movist

playback: very good. a quirk now and then, no option for cache or dropping late frames.

subs: great quality. excellent customizing options and font size doesn't change with aspect ratio.

movist uses ffmpg and quicktime, is the youngest of them but finally understood that the subtitle font size that i chose should persist, independently from the movie aspect ratio changes. something every other player failed to understand.

i keep both movist and mplayer osx extended in my hard disk, to see which comes first in beating vlc's playback quality.
since i need good subtitle support, i stopped using vlc long time ago, but it sure conquered a place of its own and it's still one of the (few) best.

One thing about quicktime bugs me: When I drag the slider to fast forward or rewind, playback pauses instead on continuing. Any way to change this behavior?

In the VLC dev's note, they mention that Apple is working to undermine VLC on the Mac platform. I'd like to hear more about this -- what exactly Apple is doing and speculation as to why, for example -- if anyone happens to have any more detailed information on it.

cheers, I've noticed that there's no mention to Movist.
I've found it to be better than VLC on WMV palyback. The con is it is not still possible to customize shortcuts.

http://code.google.com/p/movist/

VLC for Mac is NOT dead:

http://www.osnews.com/story/22629/VLC_for_Mac_Death_Greatly_Exaggerated_

The main developers are working on an alternate solution for maintaining a new cocoa interface.

http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/

You're welcome.

I would throw a party if VLC just suddenly dropped dead, worst video player ever. They just have stuck to its original purpose, being a client for streaming video. People insist on using it for everything and then complain H264 video is slow or that their subtitles aren't rendering correctly, etc, etc.

There is a way to by-pass the loading of files incrementally, you'll need to add the app/s to a list that imports files completely before opening. This is found in the Flip4Mac pref pane, player tab, click advanced and add your apps, I have Quicktime X and WMV Player added WMV's load in full and scrubbing is available when the video pops up.... it does take a while on some clips before it does load; but usually no more than a few seconds.

I vote for a VLC for iPhone which costs money. This will generate money for the ongoing, great project!
I´m aware of the already Cydia-version as well as Streamer-app in App Store; it´s a start but it should be developed even more and cost a buck!

VLC is not only a player, you may use it to stream video. I think a good group of developers could redesign the interface, fix the bugs and turn it into a real one-for-everything video application.
It would be great.

Personally, I like "Mplayer OS X Extended" better than vlc. But I would like to see vlc still being developed. A 64 bit version is the next logical step.