[FoRK] ripping and transcoding (on OS X)

[paul]

Luis Villa said the following on 12/3/2007 1:44 PM:
> 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
> 

Perhaps the VLC folks are being ornery with the interface just to annoy 
us?

paul


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