No more support for VLC on Mac 10.4!

The people at VideoLAN Project have updated the popular cross-platform multimedia player for Mac, PC and Linux, VLC Media Player, also posting a few important notes. Particularly, the team stresses that Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses while support for Mac OS X 10.4.x has been dropped “due to its technical limitations.”
Noting that the comments are the best place to mourn the “death” of VLC for Tiger starting with version 1.0.0 RC2, let’s skim through the main changes delivered by the newest update.

Video Output is experiencing major improvements starting with the removal of effects (cube, torus, etc.) from OpenGL video output, and a rewritten image video output into a video-filter named ’scene’. Video is now able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey ‘o’) while keeping black borders, whereas the old image video output has been removed. Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs, says the development team, who urges users to use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.