I've been a user of VLC ever since I got my Ibook in 2006 and I'm still discovering, a whole heap of new features were recently added too! I've not managed to find time to try even one.
James & Nash wrote: > Didn't know you could get VLC to do that cool. When i get my new > Macbook Pro I'll certainly give hat a shot. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Dane Trethowan <mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net> > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:54 PM > *Subject:* Re: Media players on Mac OS X > > Some things I particularly like about VLC, its audio and video > quality are better than Itunes and Quicktime, they both use the > same decoders I believe. VLC handles .m3u playlists better than > Itunes does and this could be important if you're running a > network of Windows and Mac machines as I do, I had ripped many of > my CD'S into .mp3 format, each CD having a .m3u playlist > associated with it, yep I can import these into Itunes now and > some I've already done that with but it was just nice to be able > to run VLC from the Mac and pull whatever .m3u playlist from the > network I wanted to play. VLC also handles "Nested Playlists", > suppose you have a talking book of 18 CD'S with each CD in its own > folder, you can set a playlist to reference each track in each > folder, only thing you have to remember to do is to modify the > backslash character - if the playlist was created in Windows - to > a slash character for use with the Mac, the slashes and > backslashes determine the path of the files obviously <smile> and > that's nothing that Text Edit can't handle with a simple find and > replace. > > > On 24/08/2009, at 12:49 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> >> Yes, vlc is great, I use that along with itunes, and some times >> quick >> time, between those 3 programs, all of the major formats are >> covered I >> think. >> On Aug 22, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: >> >>> I didn't know there was a Winamp available for the Mac, does >>> anyone >>> have an url? Is it as good as Winamp for the PC? I have to admit >>> that I think VLC to be one of the best media players around. >>> >>> >>> On 22/08/2009, at 7:29 PM, James & Nash wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I'm quite a big fan of using VLC to play my media files. However, >>>> when using >>>> Winamp, it's very easy to find how at waht point in the track I >>>> am. >>>> This >>>> also works in VLC, but is there a way to change it from >>>> displaying in >>>> seconds to minutes please? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> james >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> ****************************** >>> >>> Dane Trethowan >>> From Melton Victoria Australia >>> mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net <mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net> >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane >>> blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com >>> Phone United Kingdom >>> 02032874641 >>> Phone Australia >>> 0390058589 >>> Phone United States >>> 8159261869 >>> Fax: >>> +61 3 9743 7954x >>> MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net <mailto:grtd...@dane-trethowan.net> >>> skype:grtdane12 >>> >>> ****************************** >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >> >> > > > ****************************** > > Dane Trethowan > From Melton Victoria Australia > mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net <mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane > blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com > Phone United Kingdom > 02032874641 > Phone Australia > 0390058589 > Phone United States > 8159261869 > Fax: > +61 3 9743 7954x > MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net <mailto:grtd...@dane-trethowan.net> > skype:grtdane12 > > ****************************** > > > > > > > > > -- Dane Trethowan >From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net Phone United Kingdom 02032874641 Phone Australia :0390058589 Phone United States :8159261869 Fax (+61 3) 9743 7954 Mobile/SMS +61 438 571201 MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net skype:grtdane12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/grtdane blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
