Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 18-4-2017: Hooray for Bollywood

Oh, handy … 

I’ve — in the wake of having a quiet week, this week? — been hitting the boxed sets: catching up with the second season of Mr Robot.

Which is looking as good as the first one, I should add.

What I didn’t know until yesterday?

Was that VideoLan, the makers of open source media player, vlc, had release a version of the player for the AppleTV.

Well, if you going to watch a TV show about a hacker, watching it on the open source video player only seems polite.

It’s … 

Actually, it’s not too bad.   The picture quality, player the same files, seems better with the AppleTV’s native software.   And you have to jump through a couple more hoops — you connect the software on the AppleTV to a remote control page, in a web browser, and drag and top the files in to the browser page — than you do, using iTunes.

But it’s not a bad process to use: and offers the chance of playing all sorts of formats on my favourite streaming box.

So I’m happy.

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Mr Robot — Series 2: Episodes 4 and 5 eps2.2_init_1.asec and eps2.3_logic-b0mb.hc

17th May, 2017.

You know, I’ve had time off, just recently.   Where work’s cut everyone’s hours: as a result of going from a busy winter season to a less busy summer season.

There’s a downside.

Less pay, next Friday.

But more time to myself, this week.

Frankly?

I usually don’t spend enough time in front of the TV.

Nor — usually — do I want to.

But, in the case of an exceptional film or TV show?

I fell I have to.

I felt — when I first saw it — that season one of the show meant Mr Robot was one of those exceptional shows.

I’m thinking season two carries that on … 

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vlc: Now At Version TWO ... !

Oooh …

He says, in a vaguely excited tone of voice.

I've got to confess, I could certainly get used to walking up Warley Hill.

Which isn't why I'm posting from Brentwood Library.

(No, tell a lie: I needed a change of scenery, and the exercise, but that's beside the point.)

No, I actually meant to let people know that everybodies favourite open-source media player, vlc, has now been officially updated to version two.

Avaiable in Mac OSX, Windoze and Ubuntu flavours, you can ALSO get copies for the iPhone: and the developers are now working on an unreleased version for Android phones.

Go get, folks: and feel free to donate, if you can.

Projects like vlc need our cash to keep going.