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We ehm, kinda ehm, had altivec optimizations disabled by accident

*whap*

Lol, but seriously, you guys are doing a great job and I'm sure we all forgive ya for this, um, oversight.

Can't wait for 0.9.3!

Yes. Those two links in the post above should work for downgrading VLC. But here is the Universal binary version you can grab: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6i/macosx/vlc-0.8.6i.dmg Keep in mind, though, that the playlist between versions are not compatible and you have to trash ...

Hm. I wonder if this problem is limited to PowerPC Macs. Are the "new" codecs supposedly in VLC 0.9.2 optimized for x86 processors? Or is something else going on here? I do know that I am noticing an increasing rate of CPU usage while a movie is playing. It seems the longer it has been pla...

Is it just me, or does anybody else experience extremely degraded video quality in the new 0.9.2 version? Just about every video I have tried to play does not play fluidly all the time, and kind of skips around a bit, sometimes even pausing for seconds on end while the audio still plays. When the vi...

The video is compressed in RAR format, and split up into multiple files. You need a program like Unrar X to decompress it. I recommend you download the Unarchiver (search in versiontracker/macupdate), it decompresses everything right in the finder.