Comments on: Better Video on OS X: NicePlayer & Perian

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:28:48 +0000

I’ve noticed the opposite and find video playback is sometimes better in VLC. This is a little annoying as I much prefer the Niceplayer interface.
Most notably are avi files played over wireless 11g through an AFS shared drive. I have played around with the AFS settings, but VLC still seems to provide better performance. Is there a way to tune the buffer used by Niceplayer?
ps. Is that 2001? Just watching it now and that’s the video giving me trouble – spooky.

By: todbot

todbot — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:40:15 +0000

Hi Steven, I’ve just been ripping the DVDs using MacTheRipper and storing the ripped DVD data. I’ve not gotten around to converting many to h.264 yet. At 4-7 GB per DVD, you can store a lot of DVDs on modern hard drives. When I start running out of disk space, I’ll start converting. ;)

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:28:04 +0000

Cool stuff on your site. I have question if you dont mind helping me out. I have been contemplating ripping all my DVD around 300 OF THEM to my computer. How are you going about it, I want the full quality of the DVD or some setting of H.264 thats close. Any tips that will help me in turning my dvd library digital.

Thanks,

Steven

By: doc

doc — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:38:43 +0000

Off the screen can probably be solved with the the general resize option, tho i haven’t seen it pop new windows anywhere but top left screen edge.

There’s also the ‘open multiple to playlist’ option which might solve your reusing window task… mostly. Does let you queue up a stack of vids for one window.

I’ll be reserving my excitement till 0.96 when they add sub support.

Now just need to track down a file inspector for os x since there’s a stack of “avi” files which aren’t.