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If you are still on Mac, you should check out IINA(https://github.com/lhc70000/iina https://github.com/lhc70000/iina). I switched to it when I needed to watch 4
by sacheendra 9y ago
If you are still on Mac, you should check out IINA(https://github.com/lhc70000/iina https://github.com/lhc70000/iina). I switched to it when I needed to watch 4k videos on my Macbook and it out-performs VLC.
I think VLC's cross-platform compatibility hurts it here as IINA uses some Mac specific APIs.
- maxxxxx 9y agoAgreed. IINA is really good. Best Mac player I have seen so far.
- aorth 9y agoWow, thanks for the tip. I've been using mpv for years but IINA is great!
- naikrovek 9y agoRead the VLC 3.0 release notes. Performance is no longer a problem on 4k & 8k videos.
- sacheendra 9y agoTrue. Should have read the full changelog. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll give it a try. The change is that VLC now supports H.265 hardware decoding on mac. Great that VLC iterates so quickly!
- Moter8 9y agoMy gripe with VLC on Mac is that the fullscreen mode is not a real Mac full-screen. It just maximizes. There is no way to put it besides another chrome tab for example (quicktime and any other program lets you do this)
- jorvi 9y agoVLC > Preferences > 'Use native fullscreen mode' I believe this was originally done because Lion would black out all other monitors when fullscreening something.
- dzhiurgis 9y ago> VLC now supports H.265 hardware decoding on mac. Doesn't seem to work on last year ones with only dedicated GPU-hardware acceleration.
- jbk 9y agoContact me, with logs, please. :)
- nyreed 9y agoIINA is a gui on top of mpv, which is also cross platform.