Cannot open mpeg

[The DJ]

on 23-05-2002 08:04, Fredrik Cerha at fredrik.cerha at telia.com wrote:

> 02-05-23 00.04, skrev Christophe Massiot på massiot at via.ecp.fr följande:
> 
>> À (At) 10:27 +0200 22/05/2002, Fredrik Cerha écrivait (wrote) :
>> 
>>> I downloaded the dmg file from the website and copied it to my OSX partition
>>> and restarted from there.then I clicked the file and I saw an icon appearing
>>> on the desktop.I opened it, and everything looked as though the program was
>>> already installed.
>>> 
>>> Well...ehh...was it?
>> 
>> No it wasn't, it's a disk image, you have to copy the application
>> where you want to put it.
> 
> Please forgive my poor knowledge.I am used the sort of installers that
> require Stuffit for expanding and which will show progress bars and give you
> messages etc.
> 
> Q:Shall I just drag the whole image inside any folder...will it be installed
> then?
> Ithink it is confusing that I could browse the folders, open documents and
> poen windows in the app if it was not installed.......

You will see this method of distribution a lot with MacOS X applications.
Most programs are distrubuted on an diskimage and require you to drag and
drop the application into /Applications.

Mabye this should be in the MacOS X Read This First file. Checking CVS from
15 may I see that this file is outdated. When I have finished breakfast I
will update it.
 
>>> if I click the VLC icon awindow o pens which is called VideoLan Client
>>> 3.0(Cocoa)
>>> There are a few buttons for play stop etc.Itried to open mpegs from the file
>>> menu,but nothing happened,except that sometimes the horizontal slider jumped
>>> to the end position.I was not even able to open movies that was recognized
>>> by quicktime (guess why I got Videolan)
>>> 
>>> I dont even see a movie window at all.What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> Apparently you're using an old version. 0.3.1 is better, and 0.4.0
>> will be great, and will be released in a few hours.
> 
> OK ,then I´ll wait for  its release.Do I have to know a bit of programming
> to make things work?(no sarcasm intended)

Not at all. That is the whole point of the 0.4.0 release. Making it a REAL
MacOS product.

> I read a document where I was told to type certain commands....somehow I
> came to a box where it said "welcome to Darwin"I tried typing whatever was
> recommended,but I could not make any valid commands.

Oke, the box was the "Terminal" application. You can best compare this to a
DOS-prompt. It gives you access to the underpinnings of MacOS X. Because in
previous releases the applications possibilities exceeded the options that
were available from the User Interface, these directions were needed to
perform certain duties.
The "Terminal" should not be necesarry anymore if you want to use the 0.4.0
release of VideoLan.
And you could not make any valid commands, because you had not installed the
application.

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