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Is there a way to preview a file before it's finished? There is no good way to do this. Because the BitTorrent protocol downloads pieces in arbitrary order, there is no guarantee that the part of the file necessary for previewing (usually the beginning of the file) is present. To further complicate...

Simon: Please tell me who to contact and how. All it states on that page is to contact your local EU guy. I am outside of Europe. I have no local one. There needs to be info given, so those outside of Europe can help. contact the EU: http://www.eu.int/geninfo/mailbox/index_en.htm swedish ministers(...

why are people using the WMV codec?
is it good (for window's users)?
is it better than other codecs in ANY way?
who is using the WMV codec?

why are some mp3 players supporting wmv but not ogg?


//simon

Will all this really matter though considering this is free open-source software? How can they tell you to stop developing something like this when you arent selling it? I can't help you with the European patents as I am not in Europe, but believe me I would if I could. Please even if this stuff co...

just curious, what is part.met?

Unfortunatly, you are right, you don't patent code, you patent an idea. wich is even worse.
For code there's copyright.
patenting ideas is a very strange thing....

there are some patented software in EU even thoug it isn't allowed to patent software

or you could download 10.3 it's pretty easy to find.
but only if it is legal in your country of course.

it's in the FAQ http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id2514397

it says: remove the folder HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC


btw. why are you using 10.1?

what you are doing wrong? using 10.1 i guess

i guess you already have removed the old preferences files, but if you havent try doing that.

have you tried compiling it under 10.4?
that might fix it, but honestly i have no idea.

It would be cool to be able to select the part of the movie to be shown with the mouse, like taking screenshots with command+shift+4 on Mac OS X and then VLC plays only that area and removes the rest (the edges that werent selected). here's a image of command+shift+4 http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/...

seems to be down again...

will it be up soon?

Have you tried to change the video device?
it's in the menu video->video device that works for me.

If that's not working try turning cloning off.

what if i had choosen /usr/local?

This can lead to unexpected and unconsistent behaviour with other sources.

english is not my primary language so does "unconsistent behaviour"="unpredictable behaviour"?
if it does then why does it start to behave like that?

i thought that if i changed the path to /usr i wouldn't have to install the pakages again if some other app would depend on them.

this has nothing to do with vlc but anyway this is how you do it 1. find the movie you want to save (in this case F.E.A.R. from gametrailers.com) 2. in the new window with the trailer right click and choose "view page source" 3. search the source for .mov or .wmv if it is in wmv format 4. ...

hi there.. (system info: OSX 10.3.8, vlc 0.8.1, Mac G5 Dual 1.8 Ghz (don't know the graphics card yet) - 768 ram - 2 20inch cinema displays) i need to find out if there is a way to play 2 mpeg streams out to two monitors by simply creating a copy of vlc.app and starting them simultaneously via shel...

What kind of file?
have you tried to change audio track? (in OSX it's in the "Audio->Audio Track" menu)

With the current svn version of VLC (27.feb.05) I get an error if I change the prefix in extras/contrib/config.mak to /usr I get something like this (don't remeber exactly what was wrong) cp -R /usr/share/aclocal/* ../../m4/ ERROR no such file or directory i fixed it by changing line 1129 extras/con...

change the extension to .avi

in finder:
file--> show info

you will see "Open with"
change to whatever you want and press "change all"

it should work perfectly!

* 0.5 to 4 Mbit/s for an MPEG-4 stream,
* 3 to 4 Mbit/s for an MPEG-2 stream read from a satellite card, a digital terrestial television card or an MPEG-2 encoding card,
* 6 to 9 Mbit/s for a DVD.

if you are streaming unicast you shouldn't enter a ip in the address feild just
"udp://" not "udp://10.0.1.6"

hi

when I want to watch a movie on the tv i just change the
video device (Video-->Video Device) and then play it like normal, when you go fullscreen it will come to the tv.