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Huy
23rd September 2009, 10:09 PM
An update came out today/yesterday, thought some of you might be interested if you didn't know already:


After almost 2 months and 27 million downloads of VLC 1.0.1, the VLC team is proud to present the third version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.2!

This version introduces many fixes, notably for SSA decoding, v4l2, MacOS interface, ogg/theora, x264 modules and security issues. It also introduces the port to 64bits for Mac OS platform and 2 new languages (Kazakh and Croatian).

Because of the security issues, we strongly recommand everybody to update its version of VLC.

64-bit VLC 1.0.2. (Intel) download:
VideoLAN - Download from mirror (http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.2/macosx/vlc-1.0.2-intel64.dmg)

32-bit Intel (http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.2/macosx/vlc-1.0.2-intel.dmg) and PPC (http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.2/macosx/vlc-1.0.2-powerpc.dmg) are here (as well as Universal (http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.2/macosx/vlc-1.0.2.dmg) if you want that):
VLC media player for Mac OS X (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)
canonafficionado
23rd September 2009, 11:09 PM
Thanks for the heads up Huy!

Never see much at the front end, but VLC updates usually do a lot of good background things.
davidw89
24th September 2009, 03:07 AM
Gonna try it out, can't wait to test the 64bit!

Edit: The subtitle font looks heaps ugly, Arial, BOLD and White, is there anyway to make it transparent/gray, similar to he way Roadmovie treats subtitle?
Huy
24th September 2009, 08:01 AM
Preferences > Subtitles & OSD > Display Settings

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9410/screenshot20090924at802.png
tintinaujapon
24th September 2009, 09:49 AM
Me luv VLC longtime.
Gerbils
24th September 2009, 05:08 PM
I hope they've gotten rid of the stuttering playback bug that plagued 1.0 and 1.01... I downgraded to 0.99 because of it.
KaighNyne
25th September 2009, 12:02 PM
Me luv VLC longtime.

LOL...

I can haz VLC 1.0.2!!!
grfxninja
25th September 2009, 01:42 PM
Excuse my ignorance here, but err… which one should I download…?
32 or 64-bit


Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.12f5

EDIT: According to this thread (http://forums.mactalk.com.au/46/72291-ooh-click-here-make-all-64bit-any-intel-mac.html), it doesn't matter?
Huy
25th September 2009, 01:52 PM
Are you running Snow Leopard? If so, get the 64-bit application. The kernel will still be 32-bit but this does not matter.
grfxninja
25th September 2009, 02:25 PM
Yep, Snow Leopard since launch, so I downloaded the 64 bit version and all seems fine
tintinaujapon
30th June 2010, 10:43 PM
Version 1.1.0 'The Luggage' just became ready for download. It's the first version that I've seen advertise itself as 64 bit Intel on my Mac. I can't see any huge differences, but I assume it's a meaty upgrade under the hood.
yagankiely
1st July 2010, 01:11 AM
Awesome, that means I can use 64-bit handbrake too.
tintinaujapon
1st July 2010, 01:22 AM
Pardon my ignorance. What does it mean if we use 64 bit VLC and 64 bit Handbrake - much faster performance?
gehenna
1st July 2010, 07:09 AM
Pardon my ignorance. What does it mean if we use 64 bit VLC and 64 bit Handbrake - much faster performance?

It gives you the ability to use more RAM at any given time. Depending on how much RAM you actually have this could speed up or slow down performance.