VLC is free and open source portable media player software that supports a lot of formats and inputs and can also convert and stream. I think it’s been pretty useful for users who didn’t like MPlayer for whatever reason.
Nicole Engard writes that VLC for Mac has no more developers. I don’t like or use MacOS and definitely don’t have the skills to maintain VLC on it, but if you do, can you try to help it, please?
I recommend MPlayer over VLC for everyone but Windows users.
There’s an official Mac frontend for MPlayer, and it’s at least as comprehensive as VLC, if not more, and it’s more stable and versatile.
Why? Mac is a stinking proprietary platform for people who are too rich and stupid to run Linux.
This is a common problem with non-Linux platforms; lots of users but few developers that care about free software enough to participate. Probably Ubuntu is closest to Apple in this regard.
The lack of Mac VLC devs was proved bullshit:
http://www.osnews.com/story/22629/VLC_for_Mac_Death_Greatly_Exaggerated_
@Mama Goose
There are quite a few technological advantages included in Mac Os X which are FOSS and give a competetive edge over *BSD and Linux.
I do use VLC when I boot into Mac. I’m hardly a Mac developer, more like a user. =(
Sorry can’t help much.