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Thanks for the responses. It sounds like this is basically Apple's fault for not providing a backwards-compatible compiler. All the more reason for me to lift both middle fingers in Apple's direction and return to Linux. They already screwed me over once by switching to intel just after I bought a p...

I don't understand why support for OS X 10.4 has been dropped for version 1.0.0. (I guess I won't be surprised if support for powerpc gets dropped soon too.) I wouldn't mind helping out with development, but seeing as how support for building VLC on 10.4 was dropped even earlier... ah fück. VLC is g...

Bug filed: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2737

I've just figured out that this is a regression. The file plays fine on 0.9.2 (the earliest available version for macosx ppc that would play the file at all), but the color bars appear in 0.9.3 and later. There are apparently no nightlies available for macosx ppc, so I can't test that.

(Edited to add image) I've noticed that a certain minority of FLV files look funny when played by VLC (my system is OS X, ppc). Namely, there are lots of horizontal color bars that appear and disappear constantly. http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1243/briancox2009uembedhigh.png I'm wondering if th...