MacOS
VLC's Mac OS X interface is designed quite similar to the interfaces of other ports. At present, almost all features available in the WxWindows-interface can be used in the Mac OS X one as well. Only an advanced interface does not exist at the moment, but will probably be added later on. Skins aren't supported in this port too. That's hopefully going to change after the 0.8.2 release.
Keyboard Shortcuts
You can find most of the keyboard shortcuts by taking a look at the menus. Additional hotkeys are defined in the section "Hotkeys" of your VLC preferences.
Some handy key combo's are:
- You can use the spacebar to start/pause the video.
- When in fullscreen you can use the escape key to exit the fullscreen state
- When you are watching a DVD and the video window is the frontmost window you can use the arrow keys and the enter key to navigate the DVD menus.
Problems Running Some ".mpg" or ".mpeg" Files
Occasionally you will come across a file that gives the following error in VLC:
no suitable decoder module for fourcc `undf'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
This is because, as of 0.8.1 VLC does not support the audio codec, Voxware Metasound. It appears that, as of February 2005, if a Mac user wants to play a movie that requires this codec and wants it to play a sound track, Windows Media Player 7.1 need to be used, which means running classic. Neither VLC, Windows Media Player 9, nor aparrently any other movie player for the Mac supports Voxware Metasound on Mac OS X.
