Comments on: Bill’s Software review: Media Players

By: Bill’s Software Review: Media Players - Part Two | WinExtra

Bill’s Software Review: Media Players - Part Two | WinExtra — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:30:50 +0000

[...] When the boss read over Part One, he commented that I hadn’t included iTunes. Steven, being the optimist that he is, likely [...]

By: Bill Vincent

Bill Vincent — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:42:56 +0000

Cruddy Mac support, eh? I bet you’re pretty used to seeing that. All the more reason for Apple to port OS-X over to the PC platform, I bet you’ll see full OS-X versions of EVERYTHING after that.
I wasn’t aware of the OS-X version at all, much less that it wasn’t skinable. Thanks for sharing that!

By: Bill Vincent

Bill Vincent — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:40:15 +0000

I’m tellin’ ya, VLC will play almost anything. It will also play media files that are still in the process of being downloaded, many players see the “misreported” filesize and choke.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:29:06 +0000

Actually VLC has loads of setting in Preferences (many that I don’t understand). On the other hand this version for OS-X does not support skins, alas.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:21:31 +0000

I use VLC on OS-X, not as default but when Quicktime or Windows Media Player can’t play some file I’ve downloaded. It is able to play the “corrupt” file nearly every time. I’ve not looked into skins, thanks.