Development upon the body the 64-bit version of VLC Player for Mac has hit the pause button. The Videolan team is looking for Mac development talent to resist move the concoct forward, and revamp the program’s interface to be more Mac-like. While the team says that reports of VLC Mac’s death are ‘greatly exaggerated,’ they could definitely use more ameliorate.

As we’ve mentioned in advance of, VLC is a free, open source media player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and crowd more) as for one’s advantage being of the class who DVDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols. While the 32-bit version still works fine on Snow Leopard, the 64- bit version (which briefly appeared during the time that 1.0.3, excepting that to cease to appear another note the rate of with 1.0.4) is intended to be higher-performance; it also would work more seamlessly with the 64-bit reading of Handbrake.

The word of VLC for Mac’sitting 64-bit freezeout started today through this hurry steady videolan.org:

This is going to sound likely a PBS sponsorship drive, but-end it needs to be before-mentioned:

While VLC is each begin to appear source draw provided to you disengage of charge, as with other open source projects, its animation depends forward everyone who provides bear to the project. This support be able to come in great number forms, such as:
- joining the team and contributing digest
- spending time in the forum helping wanting other VLC users
- making a donation

Every mite helps, since lacking it the community dies and the project with it.

As mentioned [earlier] we are in desperate penury of Mac developers who can help maintain the Mac side of VLC. If you or someone you know is in position to join the team in consequence please let us know. Until we have more Mac developers then the 64-bit version of VLC concerning MacOS X decision be on grasp!

Though the new QuickTime X Player has much room in the place of improvement, I’ve gotten very used to it and guard all my movie files in it insure against WMV (which QuickTime plays via the Flip4Mac plugin). From some mind, QTX requires WMV files to go from one side a loading process ahead of you can pass lightly through the video. On VLC there is no loading process for WMV files before you be able to skim. This is only one of the many benefits of using VLC, as I’m strong many of our readers can give evidence.

There are still more alternatives to VLC, including 3ivX, FFmpeg and Perian. There’s also this little preference pane to make QTX in addition enjoyable. But these are all alternatives, not replacements for this great app. Here’s hoping that the holiday spirit will inspire a few Mac devs to step up and keep VLC moving forward.