Mac OS X

[neps at mac.com]

Because Apple does not support all DVD capable machines... machines they 
release and work fine in OS 9, but no longer in OS X. These machines are 
the laptops Wallstreet and Lombard, the first two to have DVD in the 
laptop line. Apple claims they are too old to handle DVD in X, even 
though they are more than capable in OS 9.

A real pisser.


On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Arnoldussen wrote:

> I was just curious.  For what reason do you want to use VLC on Mac OS X 
> when
> Apple has provided a player?  Is the Apple player poorly done?  Is it
> becuase VLC is open source (the reason I'm running Mozilla on all my 
> site's
> machines.)  I was just wondering.
> --
> Jonathan Arnoldussen
> Atmospheric Computing
> (403)330-4438
> www.atmospheric-computing.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "neil epstein" <neps at mac.com>
> To: "Neil Epstein" <neps at mac.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 6:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Mac OS X
>
>
>>> Could you tell me what configure says for these lines :
>>> checking if $CC groks Altivec inline assembly...
>>> checking if $CC groks Altivec C extensions...
>>> checking if linker needs -framework vecLib..
>>
>> checking if $CC groks Altivec inline assembly... no
>> checking if $CC groks Altivec C extensions... -faltivec
>> checking if linker needs -framework vecLib... yes
>>
>>> Do you have a standard compiler ? Do older versions (0.2.91, 0.2.90)
>>> compile on your machine ?
>>
>> I have the compiler that comes with the Dev Tools of OS X 10.1. Yes,
>> older version had compiled on my machine. A CVS on Sunday worked. 
>> 0.2.90
>> worked. 0.2.91 worked. CVS between the two worked. Of course this is
>> saying the building worked, not necessarily the player.
>>
>> neil
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