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1. 841.▲
   by jbk 14y ago

   VLC Windows updater?
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   by jbk 14y ago

   Ubuntu does not download a .exe...
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   by jbk 14y ago

   This is impossible, seriously. I cannot share the details, but the HTTP headers shows clearly that this is not that case. And more than 10 millions downloads per day?
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   by jbk 14y ago

   No idea, seriously. VLC scammers, mainly. The .asc is a logstalgia visualisation bug, because in fact, it merges the few .exe.asc requests with the massive .exe requests
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   by jbk 14y ago

   Maybe. Seriously, no idea.
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   by jbk 14y ago

   Disclaimer: VideoLAN president and lead VLC developer here. The attack started on our new mirroring system (powered by mirrorbrain) 2.5 days ago, during the night (after 2am, so we were sleeping). We were woken up (OP and I) in the morning
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   by jbk 14y ago

   > read the rules first. If there is anything that could be interpreted in any way to affect you get clarification. And how do you get clarification, if I may ask? I've been asking for over 2 years about a clarification on the iOS terms
8. 848.▲
   by jbk 14y ago

   Free for users does not mean free for publishers. If there are open implementations, there can be free publishers.
9. 849.▲
   by jbk 14y ago

   Or maybe "we need revenue because we are bleeding money, so we'll try to monetize this one" ?
10. 850.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    How can you build it without native code?
11. 851.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    As soon as there is a GPLv2 compatible decoder available? See https://github.com/smarter/libav/commits/hevc
12. 852.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    Yes, it is. And very heavily.
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    by jbk 14y ago

    > The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other connected devices. No. H.264 was already used by HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, DVB (since
14. 854.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    For the same reasons mozilla.org is not firefoxbrowser.com
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    by jbk 14y ago

    Thanks :)
16. 856.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    Completely free, no adware, no spyware and full source is provided. This is rare :)
17. 857.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    OK, for next major!
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    by jbk 14y ago

    Please read: > I can speak quite a bit about this "industry" I never mentionned IM. Also, see the comment from patio11 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060399
19. 859.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    What do you mean?
20. 860.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    VLC for Windows is hard to compile to be honest. But binary patching is doable, indeed.
21. 861.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    Sorry, I cannot answer to that publicly. Mail me.
22. 862.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    Maybe because I spent almost 3 hours per week to clean it.
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    by jbk 14y ago

    I can speak quite a bit about this "industry": We (VLC) receive 1 of those offers per day. They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous. They have all those great offers for you, but they refuse to give any detai
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    by jbk 14y ago

    Then, there is no DRM.
25. 865.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    The localization should be fixed, to be honest, since a few version.
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    by jbk 14y ago

    Thanks :)
27. 867.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    Yes, this is exactly why we are doing it :)
28. 868.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    Not approving Windows 8 and not porting a popular open source solution to Windows 8 are two different things.
29. 869.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    You have simple options to have the old UI back.
30. 870.▲
    by jbk 14y ago

    VLC next version will have this add-on integrated.