The 2007-12-12 nightly VLC build comes with a VLC.framework, complete with Objective-C classes (like VLCAudio, VLCMedia, VLCMediaDiscoverer, VLCMediaLibrary, VLCMediaPlayer and VLCTime) and a Cocoa view (VLCVideoView). It’s obviously in its early stages, but there’s promising work being made on VLC’s two biggest Achilles heels: it looks/feels like crap and it’s not embeddable.
Finally, quick, someone make a dual QTKit/VLC.framework player with a sleek GUI.
Update: Apparently this was a VLC Summer of Code project, and there’s an ongoing effort to base the VLC app itself on it.
Yeah, I propose Niceplayer!
By jezdez · 2007.12.19 01:24
Or quick write a plugin to a open source multi engine (QuickTime, DVD Player, Xine(PPC)) video player with a sleek cocoa gui.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/niceplayer/
By http://openid.claimid.com/jbtule · 2007.12.19 17:44
With all respect towards NicePlayer, though I may associate many words with its Cocoa GUI, “sleek” is not one of them.
By Jesper · 2007.12.19 18:39
Really, have you used recent versions of NicePlayer?
sleek |slēk|
adjective
• (of an object) having an elegant, streamlined shape or design.
Because sleek is kinda of the adjective that describes it best; maybe you meant a different adjective like … eye-candyful.
By http://openid.claimid.com/jbtule · 2007.12.21 03:26
Yes, I’ve used recent versions of NicePlayer, and I hope it wouldn’t come to this because I really think it’s a good initiative, but “elegant” is not exactly a word I’d affix to it. I don’t like NicePlayer’s GUI, and I don’t like this emitting this kind of criticism because I haven’t been able to contribute something better myself (and with QTKit, it’s actually pretty reasonable that I should be able to “show them how it’s done”).
By Jesper · 2007.12.21 12:50