"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
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.

64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



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.


What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.