Video Player

JonB · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:29

So i'm using VLC to play my video files, but I find that its quite buggy and often crashes or freezes while playing video. Is there anything which supports divx/xvid and is less buggy than VLC?

WotDa · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:33

Quicktime.

Or, http://www.perian.org/

JonB · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:46

Ah brilliant. Didn't know about those. Perian, will it work with Leopard?

WotDa · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:47

Yup.

JonB · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:49

Brilliant, thanks!

Sic · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:49

out of curiosity, what do you find buggy about VLC? the problems I've had with it have been with the file I'm trying to play - on any platform, it's been nothing but the best video player I could hope for

JonB · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:51

Sorry, one last question, whats the best way to remove things I installed with a package installer? I want to get rid of mplayer.

JonB · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:52

Sic said:
out of curiosity, what do you find buggy about VLC? the problems I've had with it have been with the file I'm trying to play - on any platform, it's been nothing but the best video player I could hope for

It seems to struggle playing full screen for some reason. Also when switching between full screen and windowed, when you resize the player it messes up, posting the video onto the window frame. Its kind of odd.

As for the video files, I haven't had any problems playing them on windows or linux platforms. Even using VLC on those platforms!

WotDa · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:00

JonB said:
Sorry, one last question, whats the best way to remove things I installed with a package installer? I want to get rid of mplayer.

Spotlight the stuff and delete it until I go do some research for you.

Uhm.. Can't seem to find anything, sorry.

VaderDSL · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:04

JonB said:
It seems to struggle playing full screen for some reason. Also when switching between full screen and windowed, when you resize the player it messes up, posting the video onto the window frame. Its kind of odd.

As for the video files, I haven't had any problems playing them on windows or linux platforms. Even using VLC on those platforms!

I get the same and always have done with OS X version of VLC

J1234 · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:12

JonB said:
Sorry, one last question, whats the best way to remove things I installed with a package installer? I want to get rid of mplayer.

AppZapper will do that for you.

WotDa · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:16

Justin said:
AppZapper will do that for you.

Wahey, I have 5 free tests Zaps again.

FreeStream · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:19

VLC has worked perfectly for me on Leopard

VaderDSL · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:20

Concorde Rules said:
VLC has worked perfectly for me on Leopard

Saying that I have only ever had problems with eve videos, I guess there must be some with really dodgy codecs that throw VLC off maybe?

Sic · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:40

JonB said:
Sorry, one last question, whats the best way to remove things I installed with a package installer? I want to get rid of mplayer.

I use http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/ because it's free and it works

Aspect · 8 Nov 2007 at 17:13

Sic said:
I use http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/ because it's free and it works

It just rolls off the tongue doesnt it

WotDa · 8 Nov 2007 at 17:20

Aspect said:
It just rolls off the tongue doesnt it

Yup, sure does.

Thanks though Sic, I will use it when I have something to uninstall.

Deleted member 651465 · 8 Nov 2007 at 18:20

Usually package installers come with an uninstaller.

Best advice is try downloading the installer again, and poke around in the disk image

Sic · 8 Nov 2007 at 18:47

WotDa said:
Yup, sure does.

Thanks though Sic, I will use it when I have something to uninstall.

you don't have to!! it knows what you're up to

WotDa · 8 Nov 2007 at 18:57

Sic said:
you don't have to!! it knows what you're up to

o_0 I am now scared...

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