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Just to follow up since my initial post.... I just installed the latest build, from the nightly builds http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/?C=M;O=D This version did seem to run more smooth initially. When I applied the setting Input Codecs>Access Modules>MMap>Check file memory mapping,...

I have the same problem. Please note that this problem doesn't happen for me when I play movies on the 1280x800 MacBook LCD. It happens when I watch movies (regardless of the codec and resolution) on my 42" 1080p HDTV as the second monitor. It is fine if I watch movies in the window mode; but, ...

I'm experiencing the stuttering problem with VLC 1.0.2 (Intel 64-bit) and Snow Leopard whenever I play any 720p video in the fullscreen mode. Actually, this tip improved playback speed a little bit. But, the fullscreen playback is still not as smooth as it was with Leopard (10.5). Interestingly, whi...

show the advanced settings and go under Input/codecs -> Other codecs -> Subtitles and set the subtitles text encoding there. uncheck utf-8 subtitles autodetection and uncheck formatted subtitles. under Video -> Subtitles/OSD, pick the Freetype2 font renderer. for the Subpictures filter module check...

For issue 1: You could take a look at font such as Arial Unicode MS, which is considered almost "unicode complete", in that it implements the characters of most (all?) writing scripts in the unicode specificaiton. Yeah, one might try some fonts that use thicker glyphs (e.g., Arial Black) ...

Hi, I have the following two problems with VLC 1.0. I'm running it in OS X 10.5.7, Macbook 2,1 (Core2Duo 2.0GHz 2GB). (1) Font effect issue. I looked at the source code and found that VLC for Mac always renders subtitle fonts in regular style which is not very legible especially for east asian langu...