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I have a few older Macs lying around and I thought I'd set up VLC as a media server on one of them, and use YDL or Fedora Core to make the best use of limited resources. I have a G3/400 and a G4/867. Memory isn't a problem, as I could max out either and I'd set them up with SATA cards and a boot dri...

Agreed. Mplayer (when I can make it work -- ugh) does do a better job than VLC with MKVs, but VLC is more stable than Mplayer, at least for me. I'm on a dual 800 PPC G4.

Reinstalling VLC 0.86c allowed me to view video files again.

Mac OS 10.3.9, and I'm getting the whole EXEC_BAD_ACCESS exception here as well. VLC displays no video, despite any preferences that I've set; it plays a few seconds of audio and then crashes. Here's another odd wrinkle -- this started happening on a previous version of VLC, which prompted me to dow...

Well, here's what I found out: 1) The Applescript section is pretty straightforward. 2) You can't compile VLC on OS X unless you're using 10.4 or higher. (2) is a real deal-killer for me, as I have some coding skills, but I'm on Panther. Too bad, actually. I got down into the code and started making...

Accessing any page on the wiki serves up a database error. This makes it difficult to get at the code, the docs, and most things of interest to a potential developer. Here is the error: Database error A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attem...

Is there documentation on VLC's Applescript capabilities? I've searched the forum and the site and haven't found anything that lays it all out. Thanks.