Happy Birthday MrVacBob!

I'd send you a copy of SICP if I could.

Happy birthday, bro!

WHERE IS THE CAKE VACBOB

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE CAKE

Bro, shut up, bro.

MrVacBob-sama is my favorite member of the Elitist Western Imageboard Cabal.

He even managed to make Perian less shitty. It's still crap, but that's because of dumb Quicktime limitations (MKV LOADING TIMES JUST KICKED IN YO).

I wish there was a decent player for OS X. mplayer comes close, but it's structured in a completely insane way, so doing something like adding segment linking/linked chapters would involve heavy amounts of rewriting.

>>5
I find NicePlayer pretty decent for my own use (MKV ANIMU), although it sounds like you advanced features it currently lacks.

Oops I accidentally a word, sorry.

>>6
Doesn't NicePlayer also use the QuickTime engine? If so, doesn't it still have the MKV loading times?

I used to use Perian + QT, but opening mkv on network drives was a pain in the ass. Plus, the fact that I kept having to compile it from SVN in order for it to be remotely usable (QuickTime updates from Apple frequently break Perian and the expressions "nightly build," "beta," "backporting fixes" and "critical updates" don't exist in their dictionary) made me switch to mplayer.

Basically, they are upset someone posted a beta build to VersionTracker (or one of those other shitty sites that always show up in Google before the actual developer's site) a long time ago and now as a payback, they update less often than Debian Stable.

>>8
You can choose between QuickTime and FFMpeg.

>>8
NicePlayer says it's multi-engine, but I only tried it with QT, so there are still load times for MKV.

They went down significantly from 1.0 to 1.1 so I'm kinda desensitized to the fact that my animu episode takes ten seconds to load. And before Perian, watching video other than QT on OS X was a laughable proposition, so they certainly did something great for OS X.

But oh god how I fucking hate their stupid macfag attitude. Would it fucking kill them to add some sort of configuration UI? Just make a tab labelled EXPERT if you're afraid to confuse the average mac-using dumbfuck.
Random example, it's actually the very first thread in their forum: http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=18659

MrVacBob is also responsible for the excellent flash subtitling tool http://code.google.com/p/flash-translator/

Frog blast the birthday core!

>>10
But oh god how I fucking hate their stupid macfag attitude. Would it fucking kill them to add some sort of configuration UI? Just make a tab labelled EXPERT if you're afraid to confuse the average mac-using dumbfuck.
Oh God I hate this fucking attitude. Suddenly, complete lack of options equals "GOOD USER INTERFACE." I'm not going to enumerate all the times Apple puts out an excellent product and then makes their users jump through hoops and hurdles due to the lack of configuration, because I'd be here forever.

Not that I particularly care about Perian anymore, mplayer has a million of command line flags that I can tweak. Too bad the -ass ones don't work on .ogms, because, like I said, the source is a mess. Building something that work with Windows binary-blob .dlls does that to open source projects.

>>13
You would probably be more happy with Gentoo Linux where you can tweak anything to be just like you want it.

>>14
I'm talking about basic stuff like, oh, I don't know, setting the goddamned subnet on the Internet Sharing feature. It's hardcoded to 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0.

Building something that work with Windows binary-blob .dlls does that to open source projects.
Or maybe, mplayer is just shit.

>>13
Tried Secrets.prefpane? It provides easy access to all the hidden options that generally require a "defaults write" cheatcode.

>>16
When you're competing against VLC, you don't have to try too hard.

>>17
I have it, looked through everything and I already knew or applied many of them. Seriously, it is not acceptable to have to repartition your hard drive just to set a limit on Time Machine (there's no technical reason for not being able to set a limit either). Or have to dick around with natd because the 10.x.x.x network is hardcoded into Internet Sharing and it conflicts with the gateway your HDSPA modem uses -- if I wanted to do that, I'd be running FreeBSD. It's these little "WHY DIDN'T THEY FUCKING PUT A BUTTON LABELED ADVANCED THERE, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO TURN GOOD SOFTWARE INTO USELESS JUNK" things that drive me fucking insane. Because sometimes, you can't really work around it and it's just plain stupid.

>>18
Because the developers not having to worry about shit like that is why Macs "just work" for most people.

If Macs are good enough for The Ginger, they're good enough for me!

Thanks guys.

Macs just work, except when they just don't work. When that happens the only way to fix it is to switch to a different operating system.

>>22
Fix yourself.

>>22
Enjoy writing your device drivers

This thread is threadstopped. You can't reply anymore.

apple's plan with 10.6 is an unholy combination of their long-rumored Win32 API access and LLVM to make a Wine-like compatibility layer that can run Windows software faster then Vista.

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