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Spade / Bloody Shovel

21 September 2004
Filed under Language, Mac, Technology, Text

Some friendly nerds have correctly pointed out that the Greens shouldn't really be sending people off to Microsoft to download Windows Media Viewer (or whatever it's called... I can never keep track) when there's a perfectly good open-source media player available. They directed me to VLC, which claims to be able to play MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg and wmv files, and is available for most operating systems.

Having downloaded the Mac OS X version and had a play around, it does indeed seem to do as it claims, which is, you know, great. But I have to say that I'm reluctant to direct average punters to a site so caught up in its own technological wizardry that it can't see its way clear to calling a "precompiled binary" what it really is, which is an APPLICATION. I mean, get a grip.

When I next have five minutes, I swear to GOD that I'm going to redesign their download page for them.

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Stephen Coles says:

Hear hear! Sometimes the open source genius community needs a swift kick in the pants from designers/writers to make their stuff mainstream accessible.

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