Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the
32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and
FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but
pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.
This allows for applications which have all the advantages of 64bits, but
not the disadvantage (eventually slightly higher memory footprint when using
lots of pointers) when the application has no need for huge amounts of
memory