Mac has broken VLC's tivo .ty and ty+ capability
Posted: 09 Apr 2009 09:21
Somewhere along the line VLC's ability to play tivo .ty and .ty+ files has been compromised. These videos now freeze at what seem to be the file segment borders (where the files typically have some noise). I believe this is due to some change in the Mac OS, as even previous versions of VLC, which had once worked fine, now do not.
I am seeing this on a variety of Intel Macs with OS 10.5.6, testing all the way back to several VLC 8.x's which were patched by 3rd parties to handle .ty's and which had worked fine for a long time. Something has changed either in the OS or something I've got installed that's triggering the behavior in all VLC versions (those that natively handle or have been patched to handle the .ty's).
I'm going to start analyzing, rolling back the OS on some test partitions, etc. but I'd be interested if anyone else is seeing this and/or has any thoughts. I have many hundreds of old .ty and .ty+ files and one of the great pleasures of VLC has been its ability to handle those files along with all the other file types, one program for all.
A work-around is to back up a few seconds at the freeze and jump past the segment border, but a typical movie has several borders so that's not fun.
I am seeing this on a variety of Intel Macs with OS 10.5.6, testing all the way back to several VLC 8.x's which were patched by 3rd parties to handle .ty's and which had worked fine for a long time. Something has changed either in the OS or something I've got installed that's triggering the behavior in all VLC versions (those that natively handle or have been patched to handle the .ty's).
I'm going to start analyzing, rolling back the OS on some test partitions, etc. but I'd be interested if anyone else is seeing this and/or has any thoughts. I have many hundreds of old .ty and .ty+ files and one of the great pleasures of VLC has been its ability to handle those files along with all the other file types, one program for all.
A work-around is to back up a few seconds at the freeze and jump past the segment border, but a typical movie has several borders so that's not fun.