Parts of VLC are now re-licensed under the LGPL

Fantastic, in a recent review of media libraries I did libvlc looked very attractive. However the lack of LGPL prevented its inclusion in the final selection which was a shame.<p>Now of course we are 6 weeks down the track with a different library but we're a while off feature complete and if libvlc can do everything we need . . .<p>Decisions decisions.

Some more interesting information:<p><a href="http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html</a><p><i>This change was motivated to match the evolution of the video industry and to spread the VLC engine as a multi-platform open-source multimedia engine and library.</i><p>Maybe another motivation was the licensing problem with the Apple App Store. This should be resolved with LGPL. (<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/8046" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples...</a>)

The article fails to mention why this change happened, and what motivated it.

VLC is the biggest POS I have ever installed on my Mac (as far as I can remember.) Who cares about licensing and streaming when the app is not even able to keep with video playback on latest hardware. What a joke! Hideous UI, buried options (try removing color or reizing subtitles), even worse: skipping frames while zero tasks running on latest i7 with 8GB RAM and 7.2K HD (I've checked with top) !!! What a crap. So I said: VLC, go away! I switched to MPlayer and all of those issues went away from that very moment. Good riddance.