VLC alternative?

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  1. gezginrocker, Jan 20, 2008
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    gezginrocker macrumors newbie

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    Hello,

    I am using Leopard on a Macbook.

    I am using VLC to play DivX movies, but whenever I try to watch a movie with subtitles, VLC crashes. When I try to load subtitles into a movie, again it crashes.

    I am really fed up with this, are there any other alternatives to VLC?

    God I miss my BSPlayer on XP, wish someone could adapt it to Mac...

    Thanks


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  2. Queso, Jan 20, 2008

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    Strange, my VLC plays subtitles perfectly. Are you running the latest version?

    One thing you could try is installing Perian and seeing whether Quicktime player then works with the file.
     
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  3. clevin, Jan 20, 2008

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    Mplayer for OSX
     
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  4. tibi08, Jan 20, 2008

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    Did you migrate from a PPC Mac? I did that and VLC crashed all the time until i removed it and reinstalled.
     
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  5. gezginrocker, Jan 20, 2008

    gezginrocker thread starter macrumors newbie

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    After starting this thread, I decided to give a try to older VLC versions, before I was using the latest version 0.8.6d.

    I downloaded 0.8.6c and it seems to be working fine now. but the strange thing is, apple remote was working with 0.8.6d, but it is not working with 0.8.6c. well other than this now I can finally watch my movies with subs so thats ok.

    so if someone else also experiences problems with 0.8.6d, I suggest downloading older versions from this adress:

    http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
     
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  6. iota2, Jan 21, 2008

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    Use DivX for Mac :)
     
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  7. Southern, Jan 21, 2008

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    Yeah having the divx codec installed does help.
     
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  8. gezginrocker, Jan 21, 2008

    gezginrocker thread starter macrumors newbie

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    I have both DivX and Perian installed.
     
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  9. kolax, Jan 21, 2008

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    These don't affect VLC Player - Perian is a codec for QuickTime.

    Any versions below 0.8.6d don't have support for the Apple Remote on Leopard. You need 0.8.6d on Leopard otherwise you'll encounter strange bugs.
     
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  10. wildmilne, Apr 21, 2008

    wildmilne macrumors regular

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    in VLC my subtitles are microscopic, mplayer spits out noise instead of the audio track.
     
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