[FoRK] ripping and transcoding (on OS X)

[Luis Villa]

On Dec 3, 2007 1:44 PM, Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 9:40 AM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> > It maddens me that VLC is the only thing that seems to reliably work
> > to play DVDs on my linux box, because my god, it has the most horrible
> > UI I've seen in years.
> >
>
> It can be skinned, used from other interfaces, heck you can roll your own.....
> I know its popular to have style over substance these days, but with
> vlc I think with a little bit of work you could have both to your
> liking.

I would have hoped that ipod and os/x would have taught most software
developers that style and substance are not opposed. There is no
plausible excuse that justifies building a media player so complicated
that I have to *explain* it to my SO, which I did have to do.

Luis