[vlc] Re: VLC.app gets BIGGER in file size (every item inside it) after some special issue_not a crash (Mac OS X)

[Thomas Reuter]

Sure you picked the appropriate thread? I guess not...

Thomas

Verne Kleinsmidt wrote:
> I was told that VLC cannot unblock regional coding. Is this true? I was 
> under the impression that it could, but am told otherwise.
>  
> many thanks
>  
> Verne
>  
> On 2/9/07, *Thomas Reuter* <t.reuter at netcologne.de 
> <mailto:t.reuter at netcologne.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Very mysterious, I try to describe:
> 
>     I was working on an issues with Firefox PlugIns (did not start the
>     VLC application).
>     Testing Firefox with my installed Internet PlugIns, ran into a
>     conflict between VLC PlugIn and
>     QuickTime. Nothing involving the VLC application.
> 
>     Just in the process of narrowing down possible causes, in try to get
>     a fresh copy of the PlugIn, I
>     redownloaded a fresh VLC 0.8.6a, reinstalled it, compared it against
>     that old suspicious copy.
> 
>     The fresh copy is 41,9MB in size, the "old" is 72,7MB!!!
>     Every file inside the package has "grown" to BIGGER. Must have
>     happened 5 days ago according to the
>     modification dates. Don´t remember a certain crash or issue that day.
>     E.g. vlc_libdirac_decoder.dylib from original 364kB to 752kB (and so
>     on).
> 
>     Don´t know if this is interesting for anyone there.
>     I´ll keep copies of the logs and that "grown app", ready to
>     send/post/investigate if told so.
> 
>     B.T.W.:
>     Getting the PlugIn
>     I sure remember I have installed the VLC Plugin (v 0.12) from a
>     dedicated dmg file (just lost it
>     because of a head crash of my USB hard drive). I am sure I
>     downloaded it more or less recently.
>     But I can´t find by any means where to obtain that image again, only
>     by "building it myself".
>     Has it been pulled back by someone?
> 
>     Thomas
> 
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