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

Windows 2000

I can tell you right away

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

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

Windows XP here

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!