DVD Jon commits a Bonjour
p2p news / p2pnet:- So this will let me see if anyone on my network is broadcasting a video with VLC, and let me hop on and watch it?” – asks thelaughingman on Jon Lech Johansen`s So Sue Me blog. “Or am I completely off-base?
That would be pretty cool though, if that`s what it does I`ll have to try it on my school`s network. 
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Yes, says DVD Jon, that`s what this enables. However, this is only in the development version of VLC and Linux only at the moment (Avahi doesn`t yet support Windows or MacOS X).”
`This` is Bonjour VLC and of it, I`ve committed a Bonjour services discovery module, he states.
Avahi rocks!
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September 9th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
wtf? is that in geekese?
September 9th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
Here ya go – http://www.videolan.org/
and http://p2pnet.net/story/5292
September 10th, 2005 at 9:27 am
VLC isn’t too bad for being free, but it ain’t fantastic either. Supposedly 0.8.2 should automatically disable the screensaver from launching but doesn’t. There was something else that was iritating me about it a while ago as well, but I’ve forgoten what that was already. Not a big fan of the interface either. I originally started using it in an attempt to get away from crappy/bloated commercial applications, and as far as a DVD player replacement goes it’s alright I guess. Don’t really need any of the streaming features though, so I’m now using Winamp 5.1 to play all my downloaded TV shows on the home theater in the living room. Oh, I remember now. VLC crashes whenever I try to use shoutcast. That was it. Plus I like having milkdrop running when listening to music, espiically in the background when entertaining guests. Another point for Winamp. I do hope VLC improves though and becomes more popular. It does have a lot of promise, if only bugs would get fixed and new features added more promptly.