VLC on OS X 10.1

[Florian G. Pflug]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:40:33PM -0600, Dave Thorup wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting VLC to run on OS X 10.1.  I downloaded the
> binary from the website and the "vlc.app" application doesn't seem to do
> anything when it is launched.  I tried using vlc from the command line:
> Went to the "vlc.app/Contents/MacOS" directory and ran "./vlc
> dvd:/dev/rdisk1" where /dev/disk1 is the mount point for the DVD.  This
> launched the vlc.app application but didn't do anything.  I had no processor
> activity and vlc was using 0% of the CPU (as shown by top), so I doubt vlc
> was doing any decryption or anything.  I also didn't get any output in the
> Terminal (I would expect to see error messages).  I even tried making
> /dev/disk1 read/writable (by changing the permissions via chmod like it
> mentions in the FAQ) but this had the same results.
CSS support seems to be broken for some machines at the moment. Playing mpeg
(and also) .VOB _files_ works, but the css code seems to still have some
problems on OSX.

> If there's anyone that can help me get this up and running on OS X
> I'd appreciate it.  Just let me know the steps I need to go through to
> get it running.  I should mention I'm using OS X 10.1 on a PowerBook G3
> 333 Mhz (Lombard) with the Apple-supplied DVD ROM, 384 MB RAM, Sixth
> Sense DVD.  (I don't have any other DVDs with me at the moment, but I'll
> try it on others)
Could you try playing a mpeg or VOB file, and see if this works (especially
results when using the fullscreen-output-module would be interesting)

greetings, Florian Pflug