What is your primary OS? Which version of VLC do you use?

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Under which OS do you use VLC?

Mac OS X
9
36%
Linux
6
24%
Windows
10
40%
BeOS
0
No votes
Other (Zaurus, *BSD, QNX, etc)
0
No votes
 
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What is your primary OS? Which version of VLC do you use?

Postby MikeBell » 26 Oct 2004 22:37

Just wondering which OS most of the VLC users use. This should tell us which versions of VLC should get the most attention.

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Postby joseph5 » 26 Oct 2004 23:52

Windows 2000

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Postby The DJ » 26 Oct 2004 23:52

I can tell you right away

1: Windows
2: Mac OS X
3: Debian
4: Gentoo
5: Redhat/Fedora Core
6: Mandrake
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Mac OS X

Postby kappabear » 28 Oct 2004 01:40

I use VLC on Mac OS X. Keep up the great work!

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Postby jcsston » 28 Oct 2004 09:35

Windows XP here

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Postby Sigmund » 28 Oct 2004 11:04

thedj: I think there can be dark numbers there. Among others I think the number of linux users can be much larger than we think, since linux users tend to download for it's own distros mirrors (read debian). and linux users tend to read a bit more before asking questions. but yes, I agree on your general picture

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Postby MikeBell » 30 Oct 2004 07:13

Interesting list, dj.

If that list is true, I find it quite surprising that VLC is popular on XP since XP ships with an OK media player and there are a ton of other players for XP (Classic MP etc). Under Mac and Linux, VLC is probably the only option (mplayer is ok but has a worse UI).

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Postby The DJ » 31 Oct 2004 01:38

We get huge download numbers on the windows build (that's where I based the list on).

Of course relatively spoken, VLC is definelty bigger on OSX.
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Postby joseph5 » 01 Nov 2004 17:51

Interesting list, dj.

If that list is true, I find it quite surprising that VLC is popular on XP since XP ships with an OK media player and there are a ton of other players for XP (Classic MP etc).
The problem with all the players for Windows is that all of them use the same directshow filters to work.

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Postby cdebuhr » 03 Nov 2004 01:00

i use vlc 0.80 test2 with win xp pro sp2.

this player plays them all - incredible! a really great program!
so easy to use (out-of-the-box), no problems at all (at least for me) and excellent picture & sound quality.

chris

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Postby Beaujames » 03 Nov 2004 02:13

not enough people responding too the poll...
0.7.2 for xp pro SP2

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Postby dumarjo » 03 Nov 2004 22:31

no other media player on windows (free) can stream something to other computer.

This is the only feature i use on vlc. and I did'n try the 0.8.0 offical version but i always have a freeze image after 1 hour or so. i have to reset all the thing to get it work again. but this is ther since 0.7.0 for me. And i'm probably the only one with this problem.. instead of that to software work very well

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Postby Teetow » 04 Nov 2004 02:07

I'd like to add some weight to the priority of the OSX version, since VLC is the ONLY currently maintained mediaplayer of any standard. It's been ages since MplayerOSX was last updated, and I have yet to discover anything that isn't vastly inferior to VLC / Mplayer.

So, regardless of how big or small a chunk of the demographic we might be, you guys are our only hope.

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Windows here

Postby Guest » 04 Nov 2004 07:53

Runningo on Windows, attemp to build it on this platform, too.

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Postby Nanocore » 08 Nov 2004 17:36

Currently, Win XP and Yoper Linux (I had to build). Also, at the moment, I am trying to stream movies from the XP hard drive to the Linux box. This will be reversed as soon as I can get the bigger hard drive on the linux box.

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Postby Qool » 10 Nov 2004 12:48

Gentoo Linux 2.6.9-nitro2 :)
Under Mac and Linux, VLC is probably the only option (mplayer is ok but has a worse UI).
I dunno about Mac, but Linux has many. Notably xine and mplayer (which you named), and others too, belonging to KDE or GNOME desktops. For ages I used these, unaware of VLC player. But now that I know of it and like it so much, I'm here to stay!


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