VLC cannot play MKV files?

[Clemens Lang]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:00:52PM +0100, Rainer Müller wrote:
> > I think the system bsdtar doesn't support this on all OS X versions
> > that do support hfs compression.
> 
> Right, on my OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite it does not seem to be supported. In
> the ticket you said it was not supported on OS X 10.9. Can anybody
> please check whether it is actually supported on OS X 10.11 El Capitan?
> 
> $ echo "666f6f00...000000" | /usr/bin/bsdtar --hfsCompression -xqOf -
> foo>/dev/null
> bsdtar: Option --hfsCompression is not supported
> Usage:
> ...

10.11's bsdtar doesn't support --hfsCompression.

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Clemens