VLC cannot play MKV files?

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Jan 26, 2016, at 1:47 AM, Vincent Habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>>> I was under the impression that Apple already compressed the files and programs installed with the operating system, using HFS compression, ever since taking up less disk space was listed as a feature of Snow Leopard.
>> Yeah, I thought so too, but I also have the impression that may not always work as advertised after a few updates have been applied. Easy enough to check with `ls -lO` (/usr/bin/ls that is).
> 
> I’ve applied René method, disabling SIP while compressing /Applications. It gave me some significant savings, thus I surmise all the applications are not compressed. Xcode is, though, but things like iWorks (Pages, etc.) are not.
> 
> I am not space savings in Snow Leopard were the result of using file compression.

According to the Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard, 97% of executable files in Snow Leopard are compressed.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/3/


> I’d rather wager Apple get rid of some universal code (ppc/ppc64) in 10.6. 10.5 was the final version usable with ppc, AFAIR.

10.6 removed ppc64 code but kept ppc code. 10.7 removed ppc code.