I don't know if it's the case, but it appears as if VLC was developed for Windows and ported to OS X/macOs...except for the documentation, which seems to be totally Windows oriented..
I will let you in on a few secrets of software developers.
- According to one of my mentors many years ago, "The intersection of those who can write good code and those who can write good English is infinitely small."
- Developers HATE writing anything but code.
- Major software houses often hire English majors to write the user documentation and pay them really good salaries.
- Open Source projects do not have any great incentive to write user documentation because no one is getting paid so user documentation is often sketchy.
- VLC is Open Source.
- It is probable the Mac version of VLC was a port from Windows and it is likely some things were left out or changed because they did not port directly or easily (which could be the result of poorly written or idiosyncratic Windows coding).
- It is equally likely that Mac documentation wasn't an afterthought it was never though of in the first place.
Recently I laid out nearly $100 for a 14 month subscription to a very well known and widely used commercial software product only to discover the latest documentation is two releases out of date for Windows and only cursorily discusses how to install the Mac version. I have found multiple features that work differently in the Mac version but those differences are not documented anywhere I have found so I have had to resort to their user forums to use/activate these features on the Mac.
