[vlc] Multiple Instances of VideoLAN on Apple

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello Dave,

this behaviour cannot be changed because it is the way applications  
work on Mac OS. However, you may use OSX's Terminal application to  
launch multiple instances of VLC. Just open it, enter "/VLC.app/ 
Contents/MacOS/VLC" (assuming VLC.app was installed to /Applications  
and wasn't renamed) and hit return. VLC will launch as expected. You  
may open as many Terminal windows (or tabs) as you want, so you can  
repeat these steps as often as you need.

Future releases of VLC may include support for multiple playback  
streams within a single instance to prettify the current situation.

Best,

Felix

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Felix Paul Kühne
Co-Developer of VLC's Mac OS X port
http://www.videolan.org/vlc

On 03.12.2007, at 22:19, David Devereaux-Weber, P.E. wrote:

> I'd like to use VideoLAN to monitor several multicast video  
> streams. This is on an Apple system.  With vlc on Widows, each  
> double-click on the program icon results in an additional instance  
> of the program.  With vlc on Mac, each double-click of the program  
> icon returns the single instance of vlc to the foreground.  Can the  
> behavior on Mac be changed to supporting multiple instances?
>
> Dave
>
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