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VLC on iPad: Fail for now

The Good:

It will play those old AVI of mine and those TV Episode AVI that I download once in a while when I miss a recording on my DVR.

The Bad:

The application feel very beta.  This is understandable as the team wanted to produce a simple application and see if Apple would approve before investing [...]

1st Video of VLC on iPad

UPDATE:

Wired just published a review of the application. Look very promising.

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This short youtube video show how the iPad VLC application can nativelly play XVID, DIVX, etc video format on the iPad.

The application look fast and responsive.  The UI is not up to my taste with the oversized video thumbnails but I am sure it will get better [...]

Hell Just Froze: Apple allowing non XCode built Application in the App Store

Image by mjdave via Flickr

Apple just published a press release in which they state that they are relaxing the rules on how to build applications for the App Store.  Until proven otherwise this mean that Apple opened the door back to Adobe Flash built applications.

This is a serious win for Adobe and all small developers [...]

Terminate All v1.1 released

I did some adjustments to the small utility “Terminate All” to make sure all users left over processes are terminated. I also changed the way I build the list of users to terminate and how the termination look is performed.

I created a Google Code project called terminateall so you can take a look at the [...]

Easilly convert MKV to MP4 on OSX Snow Leopard without Transcoding the Video

I made s short screencast of how to convert those MKV files to MP4 files so they can play on XBOX 360, PS3 and Apple TV.

What ingredients will you need:

An HD MKV file (obviously)
Perian QuickTime codec
Subler
A QuickTime Pro License for Quicktime 7

1st, install Quicktime 7 from the Snow Leopard DVD and then license it.

2nd, follow the [...]