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Hello there, I've just applied your suggested dmg format change to VLC's forthcoming 1.0 release. Thanks a lot for the hint! Excellent. Should be a nice reduction. :) On Sparkle: well, that's a great framework written by a really cool and nice guy. However, our security-über-boss at VideoLAN requir...

Hi, Currently the VLC .dmg files are compressed using zlib (UDIF) compression. If you were to switch to using bzip2 compression (UDBZ) you'd save about 20% of your download size. For example, vlc-0.9.9a-intel.dmg in UDIF is 20374916 bytes. vlc-0.9.9a-intel-udbz.dmg in UDBZ is 17025367 bytes. That's ...

It's not 40-50% using Tiger, it's about 20%. Omni's statistics (in general) are skewed towards 10.4 because of the bundling with the OS, but their non-bundled products show the 80/20 split which Adium's statistics, along with pretty much anybody else who records statistics, sees. Tiger is dead. The ...

According to Adium's usage statistics , 10.4 users are about 25% of the userbase. Omni's statistics puts this at somewhere around 50% (but they also have a lot of legacy software, too). 0.9.8a is stable and works, your consideration should be: what makes development easier? Dropping 10.4 support is ...

It doesn't seem like this would be all that difficult of a task. The only things necessary to generate an appcast (the .xml file utilized by Sparkle) is the version, date, URL, MD5 and release notes URL. All of these things can be generated from the current update file inside VLC: http://update.vide...

There's some information about the media keys at the Rogue Amoeba blog , but the method spoken about in the blog requires VLC to have focus. The event tap found in the comments is where the real solution lies: So I gave it a try, and sure enough it works: You can tap media key events by doing someth...