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Comment by drtgh

2 months ago

Unofficial third-party builds from unknown github accounts; I think that you are really brave if you installed it.

And the first party ones available there are for testing, with missing features :/

We do not have this kind of problems with VLC.

Did you miss the github builds or just discounting them?

  • What happened to downloading an installer from the official website? Are we sending grandma to GitHub now?

    • Things are complicated. As a policy, I wouldn’t want to encourage grandma to be going to any web site to download software. Grandma should probably stick to the App Store. And personally, I would way rather install github builds than downloads from ‘official’/independently maintained web sites. Especially in the case of free / open source projects, sometimes cash constrained. Security is hard.

      I’m not super knowledgeable about modern video players- I do like Infuse, which is in the App Store.