vlc on Mac OS X 10.1

[Florian G. Pflug]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:35:17PM -0800, Al Heynneman wrote:
> I downloaded your latest vlc for Mac OS X 10.1, but I can't get it to 
> play anything (DVD's).
> 
> I insert a DVD disc and it shows on the desktop with a DVD icon, but 
> with an ISO? name like "BODYGUARD_4X3_REDO". Is that correct?
> 
> Anyway, I try the OPEN menu, and it shows me the full directory 
> structure of the DVD disk, but I can select any file, and it doesn't do 
> anything.
> 
> Trying from terminal app doesn't help either.
> 
> Ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Try starting it from the command line using
vlc dvd:/dev/rdisk1

If you want to use h/w rgb->yuv transformation (speeds up output quite a
bit), than call vlc with
vlc -I macosx_qt -V macosx_qt dvd:/dev/rdisk1

The cvs version of vlc has better osx support, but there is no binary
release available yet.

You can get the source-code from cvs as described on the vlc homepage, and
compile it using
./configure
make

But if you want to play a DVD (and not some VOB or mpeg file on our hd) you
still need to call vlc from the command line. I'm working on resolving this
;-)

greetings, Florian Pflug