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Comment on Mac Software by George Austin

George Austin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:49:45 +0000

Wow - I had no idea MPlayer was shady. Could you give me a link? Should I recommend xine ports instead? Other than major problems with soft subtitles in Matroska files, VLC just drops frames (though there are a few workarounds maybe), especially with HD video. And (as far as I know) VLC doesn't do GPU-accelerated HD playback (not that it matters for the discussion at hand - GPU acceleration isn't happening for non-Apple applications anytime soon. I guess that last point is more a reason why I recommend MPC-HC to Windows users.).

Comment on Mac Software by aprotim

aprotim — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:56:25 +0000

George, why “wave people off” of VLC? I used to be an mplayer user exclusively, but those guys do some truly shady things with let’s call it ‘borrowing” other people’s code (proprietary, open source, it doesn’t matter – they flatly ignore licensing provisions and are generally asses when people call tham on it). Also, I haven’t use Mplayer OS X Extended, but I used a different OS X port, and I felt like the UI was very hacked-on. These days I use mplayer almost exclusively for basic video editing (extracting audio, etc.)

Comment on Mac Software by aprotim

aprotim — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:40:23 +0000

Bill – they actually have keyword search, but it’ not managed through the bookmarks like in FF – in perferences, click “manage search engines”. I used to extensively use FF keywords, and I actually like Chrome’s better, since there’s an obvious way to actually do a search starting with a keyword (e.g. search google for “imdb pro” rather than do an imdb search for “pro”).

Comment on Mac Software by Bill

Bill — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:26:22 +0000

Good list. FYI, the dev version of Chrome on OS X now supports extensions. They also finally added a (basic) bookmark manager. Now all I need is keyword support & I’ll switch from FF.

Comment on Mac Software by George Austin

George Austin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:33:33 +0000

Great list! I've been waving people off of VLC lately and toward MPlayer OSX Extended or Movist on the Mac, and toward Media Player Classic Home Cinema or MPlayer on Windows.

Comment on Mac Software by Alpha

Alpha — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:32:15 +0000

I’ve recently been preferring NicePlayer (http://code.google.com/p/niceplayer/) to VLC recently on OS X…

Comment on Things I Wish I Had Known: Grad School (Part 1 – What is Grad School?) by Darius K.

Darius K. — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:59:34 +0000

Yep, sounds like grad school to me.

I’m glad I didn’t go after undergrad. I seriously wonder whether I ever will.

Comment on Ann Coulter’s Godless by Damo

Damo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:09:03 +0000

Read the book in two hours.
It was that light and it almost floated away.
Crap, total crap.
No need to even counter her arguments as she does it perfectly for herself.
Recommend this book to your enemies as the cure to liberalism.
They will be confused for years.
or as Ann would say con-fused.

puke.

Comment on Ann Coulter’s Godless by Maddie

Maddie — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:49:24 +0000

Your right. Ann is a democrat. The best of jokes. If you get her drunk she talks about it. It’s all about the money.

Comment on Movie Review: Spiderman 3 by Dianna

Dianna — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:27:20 +0000

I totally agree!