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Open-source DVD/MPEG development for OS X

updated 05:10 am EDT, Fri April 20, 2001

 
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VideoLAN is an open-source DVD and MPEG development project by students from the ecole Centrale Paris whose "main goals are MPEG and DVD playing and broadcasting on the campus, but it also features a standalone multimedia player that can read DVDs and MPEG files. It will also eventually support streams from a satellite or from an MPEG2 compression card. VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License." Early developmental builds are available for Mac OS X.


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    Sweet

    The screenshots look amazing, but I couldn't get it to compile. Could someone offer a binary?

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    Binary

    http://homepage.mac.com/~volrath/vlc.tgz
    I compiled that version. Currently, it is extremely unstable, and does not play any DVDs (for me at least). What it can do, though, is play mpeg movies extremely choppy. I can't guarantee that it will work, though, because you might need some of the libraries that I used (not really sure how those things work). I might put up some newer versions there every so often.

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    Binary

    http://homepage.mac.com/~volrath/vlc.tgz
    I compiled that version. Currently, it is extremely unstable, and does not play any DVDs (for me at least). What it can do, though, is play mpeg movies extremely choppy. I can't guarantee that it will work, though, because you might need some of the libraries that I used (not really sure how those things work). I might put up some newer versions there every so often.

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    Agh!

    Well I accidentally hit reload and it posted it twice. Gotta hate that. I moved the files around a little so now you can just go to http://homepage.mac.com/~volrath/ and follow the links. Enjoy.

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    Great!

    Thanks!

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    looks promising

    Well, i got it to compile, with no mucking around at all. Played about 20 seconds of a DVD (about 3-4 frames/sec, with sound), then the sound started doing weird things and vlc segfaulted. Definately not ready for anything but development right now i'd say.....but, it is a kick to see OS X play a dvd :)
    i posted a screenshot of vlc playing Evangelion at http://scuzzybug.dyndns.org/

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