[vlc] Re: [ANN] VLC 0.5.0

[yakima at clbry.de]

Wow! Finally!
This is a great release and a real step forward - and i have anciously 
waited for it

Just some observations i have made using vlc 0.5.0 on MacOSX - i really 
don't have time for anything more detailed (verbose output and the 
like), but i wanted to give some feedback on some maybe trivial issues 
(all using the gui) and maybe find out if others know more/ experience 
the same:
- i guess divx-subtitles do not work yet for macosx? (if they do: how?)
- strangely enough, there are no shortcuts for some useful controls, 
e.g.: pause, play
- is it really a wanted behavior that vlc starts playing files 
immediately, same if paused and the slider is moved?
- responsiveness of the program is not too good at least on older macs 
(g3-400); as soon as you mess with e.g. screen size, you have to be 
rather patient (could that be some bug?) - even more testing: when 
playing a dvd, vlc does not let anything interfere, no force quit, only 
a forced restart (or is there a way to tell vlc to quit?)
- strange as well, fullsceen playback of divx content seems to be 
slower than normal size (before it was rather the other way around)
- (this again pertaining to slower macs) it seems that the ffmepg codec 
is slower on mp4 files than on avi files; is there a reason for that? 
do mp4 files need to be hinted for better playback even if used locally?
- is there any documentation on the various options, particularly 
ffmpeg (i have checked the docs, looked around ffmpeg)?

Well, thanks once more for this nice app, hope i don't bother you too 
much ...
yakima


On Montag, Feb 3, 2003, at 20:09 Europe/Berlin, Sam Hocevar wrote:

>    The VideoLAN team is absolutely delighted to announce version 0.5.0
> of VLC, the most beautiful cross-platform multimedia player that has a
> traffic cone as its logo, codenamed "sleeping is for weenies".
>
>
>    It is our extreme pleasure to deliver the following long-awaited
> major features:
>
>     - DVD navigation
>
>     - new stream output architecture, allowing to act as a stream 
> server
>
>     - new audio output architecture, with S/PDIF support, multi-channel
>       support, volume setting
>
>     - new codecs: Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, ADPCM, Xvid, DV, and many more
>
>     - support for DivX subtitles
>
>     - a Mozilla plugin based on VLC
>
>     - localization support
>
>
>    Unfortunately the feature list would be too long to post here, and
> spam filters would block it because there is so much sexy stuff in it,
> thus we suggest you have a look at the release notes here:
>
>      http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
>
>
>    You can download VLC for most operating systems here:
>
>      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
>
>    Enjoy!
>
> -- 
> Sam.
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