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01-01-2014 , 11:20 PM

deleted23567

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Hi all,

Since I've been on a Mac I've always used VLC, and it has worked fine.

Recently I bought a NAS (Synology) and streaming from it to VLC worked fine the first couple of days but after a few days (after a VLC upgrade I think) it started to lag.

I've tried playing videos in XBMC and there they run smoothly.

Just not that interested in using XBMC as my main media player.

//nejo

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01-02-2014 , 12:08 AM

iosys

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You could try flip player which is made by telestream which makes solid media related products. I do use their capture software and it runs great.

Try their free player first obviously, i'm not sure what the benefits are but the player looks decent from the video. I just use vlc myself

Note: Take my post with a grain of salt because I don't use flip player.
Found here:
http://www.telestream.net/flip-player/overview.htm

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01-02-2014 , 03:42 AM

mesmerized

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or revert back to the older version of vlc u was using til u find a solution

64bit
http://filehippo.com/download_vlc_64/
32bit
http://filehippo.com/download_vlc_32/

older versions to right of screen

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01-02-2014 , 04:26 PM

Jigsaw

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Quicktime comes with every Mac.

MplayerX is also good:

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/mplay...21131143?mt=12

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01-02-2014 , 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by iosys

Thanks, will try it!

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Originally Posted by mesmerized

Will try that too.

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Originally Posted by Jigsaw

Quicktime comes with every Mac.

MplayerX is also good:

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/mplay...21131143?mt=12

From what I've read there used to be a great codec pack for Quicktime but there isn't anymore.

I tried MplayerX, but thought it was awful, really buggy.

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01-02-2014 , 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mesmerized

There were only Windows versions on that site?

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01-02-2014 , 09:51 PM

thesilkworm

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Older versions of VLC are available on their official site:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/

Just choose the version number, and browse to the appropriate .dmg file found in the /macosx folder.

Originally clicked on this thread to recommend both VLC and XBMC having used them both. Have never come across anything better.

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01-02-2014 , 10:23 PM

deleted23567

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Thanks!

Downloaded 2.0.8 and it seems to work great!

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