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January 30, 2006

The VideoLAN servers

For those who are interested, and just so that I remember the link. Here is a gallery and a description of the VideoLAN serverpark.

Posted by The DJ at 11:08 PM | Comments (0)
Posted in VideoLAN

January 29, 2006

VLC is just delicious

Have you seen Del.icio.us yet? It's an online community for sharing bookmarks basically. Now you know I always have to check what VLC brings up in tools like this. Well, the results are in.

Among the different interesting tidbits, I found this link to a website describing how to RIP Windows Media based Musicvideo's from Yahoo. The tutorial is pretty extensive, and applies to most other MMS streams as well. There is even a nice Flash video showing you the exact proces.

Posted by The DJ at 11:36 PM | Comments (0)
Posted in Streaming , VideoLAN , Webbing

January 23, 2006

GPL violations

So after our recent issue with the Sony Rootkit, yet again several things have been reported to us. This time someone is selling our software for $29,99 without informing the user they will simply be getting VLC media player which is free for download. Read the full story on the blog of J_K9 Linux. The other report is about the possible violation of the Elanvision EV-8000S STB, which firmware includes VLC.

Posted by The DJ at 11:58 PM | Comments (0)
Posted in VideoLAN

January 17, 2006

Google and VLC

I have always liked crawling trough Google search results for websites and images that look at, use, review, list etc. VLC in one way of another.

I have now created a small webpage that presents you with 6 random images from the Image search result of Google. It's fun to see what users do with their VLC. Give the page a whirl and see what you run into.

Posted by The DJ at 10:47 PM | Comments (0)
Posted in VideoLAN , Webbing

VLC subtitles in Japanese or Chinese

People keep running into issues with this, even though it is described in the README.MacOSX.rtf file on the diskimage. I happened to run into a small HOWTO explaining it a bit more detailed, and with pictures. I hope that by listing it here, people will be able to find the solution faster.

Posted by The DJ at 10:43 PM | Comments (0)
Posted in VideoLAN