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If people would prefer to use something else than pay for VLC, then VLC is literally not worth it. It's quite possible that's the case; I think most people on

If people would prefer to use something else than pay for VLC, then VLC is literally not worth it. It's quite possible that's the case; I think most people on Mac would rather use Quicktime (w/ Flip4Mac [1], which is Microsoft-supported) for free than pay for VLC. But if there were a trivially easy way to pay a dollar, I think a lot of folks would. Ultimately, open source projects that aren't fun to work on will live or die by the micropayments problem. 1 or whatever; I'd never heard of Perian before this thread, and I just switched back to Linux from OS X.

jamesbritt 17y ago
"It's quite possible that's the case; I think most people on Mac would rather use Quicktime (w/ Flip4Mac [1], which is Microsoft-supported) for free than pay for VLC." I'm probably an atypical Mac user. I sometimes use my Mac to watch movies, but generally don't care for the OSX UI and don't care if something doesn't have a true OSX feel (n fact, non-OSX may suit me better). (I have a Mini for development purposes but do most things on Kubuntu.) I like using VLC because, aside from its feature set, I use it on Vista and Kubuntu as well and know what it can do and how to do it. (Usually; for whatever reason, the default keyboard shorts are oddly different on different platforms. I don't think it's because of collisions with preexisting shortcuts, and I usually just reassign them to suit myself.) This thread has informed me about some other OSX options I'll try out, but so far VLC is about the most full-featured player I've seen. Couldn't live without the equalizer, gamma/brightness control, audio sync adjustment, and such.
- randallsquared 17y ago
  There are other differences, too. The playlist showed up by default on the OS X version of VLC, and I haven't found a way to make that happen on the Ubuntu version. Also, the OS X version has a very nice "jump 10 seconds" feature which the Ubuntu version seems to lack entirely (or I couldn't find it). It's weird that the OS X version of VLC actually seemed to have more features and a markedly better interace than the linux version, to the point that although I used VLC almost exclusively on OS X, now that I use linux I usually use Totem.
  - jamesbritt 17y ago
    Not sure about the playlist thing, but on linux there are keyboard shortcuts for jumps of varying lengths (some combo of left or right arrow and ctrl|alt|shift variations).

jamesbritt 17y ago

"It's quite possible that's the case; I think most people on Mac would rather use Quicktime (w/ Flip4Mac [1], which is Microsoft-supported) for free than pay for VLC." I'm probably an atypical Mac user. I sometimes use my Mac to watch movies, but generally don't care for the OSX UI and don't care if something doesn't have a true OSX feel (n fact, non-OSX may suit me better). (I have a Mini for development purposes but do most things on Kubuntu.) I like using VLC because, aside from its feature set, I use it on Vista and Kubuntu as well and know what it can do and how to do it. (Usually; for whatever reason, the default keyboard shorts are oddly different on different platforms. I don't think it's because of collisions with preexisting shortcuts, and I usually just reassign them to suit myself.) This thread has informed me about some other OSX options I'll try out, but so far VLC is about the most full-featured player I've seen. Couldn't live without the equalizer, gamma/brightness control, audio sync adjustment, and such.

randallsquared 17y ago
There are other differences, too. The playlist showed up by default on the OS X version of VLC, and I haven't found a way to make that happen on the Ubuntu version. Also, the OS X version has a very nice "jump 10 seconds" feature which the Ubuntu version seems to lack entirely (or I couldn't find it). It's weird that the OS X version of VLC actually seemed to have more features and a markedly better interace than the linux version, to the point that although I used VLC almost exclusively on OS X, now that I use linux I usually use Totem.
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  Not sure about the playlist thing, but on linux there are keyboard shortcuts for jumps of varying lengths (some combo of left or right arrow and ctrl|alt|shift variations).