License: Free Latest update: Wednesday, April 5th 2023 Author: VideoLAN Technical Title: VLC media player 2.2.8 for Mac Requirements: It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org.

VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player.ĭon’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. The release has squished a couple of bugs, too, including one that would distort audio when starting playback.Ī detailed changelog for the update is available on the VideoLAN website.VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format. Related: Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for VLC Media PlayerĪside from native support for Apple silicon Macs, the app features a refreshed interface that closely follows Apple's updated aesthetic in macOS Big Sur. The app used to run on M1 Macs via Rosetta emulation, Apple's translation environment that allows non-optimized Mac apps written for Intel chips to run on Apple silicon. The same goes for other resource-heavy VLC features, like rendering surround sound audio or decoding 10-bit HDR and 360-degree video.

VLC as of version 3.0 takes advantage of your Mac's GPU to accelerate decoding of 4K and 8K video, and this will now benefit from native code execution. Owners of M1 Macs will enjoy a much snappier performance in VLC, especially when watching high-resolution video. VLC is available to download through the VideoLAN website.

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