ERUNNO  The 64 bit version of 1.0.2 had too many stability problems and therefore it was decided by the VLC developers to refrain from releasing further 64 bit versions until all corresponding bugs are fixed.

Regarding VLC and HandBrake I recommend that you read the following:

http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/SupportFAQ#vlc  
(Version 1.0.3)

LITTLEB  yes u can go to

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

and drag down the page untill u see support for the older os   
(Version 1.0.3)

MISHA  Or click the link under 'Related Links' in the listing that says:

Version 0.9.10 for Mac OS X 10.4

MacUpdate's got your back, Tiger users ;)  
(Version 1.0.3)

CASTLE ROSE  Why the hell isn't the current VLC compatible with Tiger? Are they simply getting lazy? I'm using a Powerbook G4 as well. I don't have room or the need for Leopard. Tiger is hardly old enough to start dropping support for it. Come-on guys.   
(Version 1.0.3)

MISHA  Age in years is rather meaningless, it's more about what supporting the older stuff is preventing and limiting them from doing moving forward. And with   
(Version 1.0.3)

DP8  MACLOVER - I ran into the same problem - no 64bit 1.0.3 version! Then I found this thread:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=67363

Looks like 1.0.3 64bit has some nasty bugs. You can get the nightly builds still - link is on that page.   
(Version 1.0.3)

MEGAS88  I found the solution to this problem last night in the fourms.

Check out the last post here. I'll put it here just in case. Now mkv's open almost instantly for me like they should.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=44346&start=30

Re: X264 .MKV file on VLC... cannot play, help MAC NOOB!!

New postby EvoIce on Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:14 pm

Hello I recently stumble upon this Thread while having trouble with Playing 1080p mkv video on VLC version 1.0.2 on my Macbook Pro 2.6 ghz 4 gb ram 8600M GT 512mb.

While looking around I found that you can change how VLC opens MKV files, in the pref>input/codecs>Demuxers>Matroska. one of the issues were with long load times on big mkv files. Their (VLC forums') solution was to untick the preload Directory box, which didn't solve the problem, so I started playing with the preferences. I found if I unchecked all the boxes except for "seek based on percent not time" the video plays flawlessly, perhaps not flawlessly but it doesn't crash!

Please tell me if this has worked for you, or what prefs did you change so that it works, Thanks  
(Version 1.0.3)

FLAVUM  I have the same problem as you. I believe that many of the crashing/freezing problems are related to subtitles. I also have many mkv files, and some of them open and play fine until I turn on subtitles under the Video menu. Then the movie freezes, forcing me to quit (or force-quit) VLC.

Earlier versions didn't exhibit this behavior (prior to 1.0.2).  
(Version 1.0.3)

YOSHINATSU  Unfortunately, this didn't happen to solve my problem... :(  
(Version 1.0.3)

YOSHINATSU  I've found a workaround to the issue I had.

I figured there was some kind of "conflict" on the fontconfig files, so I had to complete delete Mplayer which would change the configuration each and every time, and then run the following command on the Terminal:

sudo chmod a+w /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig  
(Version 1.0.3)

UMAROMC  Yeah I noticed the MIA 64-bit version as well... although the 64-bit version worked fine for me. I personally never noticed a performance improvement over the 32-bit version.  
(Version 1.0.3)