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Apple's default video players are severly lacking in almost all of their platforms. Try to open an mp4 file you downloaded on your iPhone or iPad and you will b

Apple's default video players are severly lacking in almost all of their platforms. Try to open an mp4 file you downloaded on your iPhone or iPad and you will be presented with one of the most atrocious "players" ever. But that's because Apple has never cared to support on-device video viewing on their mobile devices outside the gallery app. They think people only use streaming apps and websites to consume videos so they haven't bothered with it. I'm sure we will get VLC on the Vision Pro or something similar that will take care of it. Platforms that publish 360 content will have to distribute their own custom solutions

voisin 3y ago
> Apple's default video players are severly lacking in almost all of their platforms Try opening the TV app on a multi monitor Mac. It is nearly god damn impossible to make it full screen on the monitor you want rather than the one it happened to open up on originally (I think based on app bar placement which annoyingly cannot be tied to a specific monitor or made to appear on all monitors)
- mickdarling 3y ago
  To control which monitor an app opens on a multi monitor Mac setup. First hover over the dock on the monitor you want the app to open on. Then open the app. It will treat that monitor like its main monitor.
dzhiurgis 3y ago
I love VLC but it framedrops 60fps videos on M1 Pro which is just bonkers performance
- reactordev 3y ago
  have you reported this issue to the VLC devs? VLC is by far the player with the most widely supported video codecs. I'm sure they will fix it if you report the issue to them.
cityhall 3y ago
This is probably an extension of their hostility to mp3s. They wanted to force people away from downloaded or ripped content and toward their own store.
- etchalon 3y ago
  That is ahistoric. Apple was forced into FairPlay by the labels, not by choice. They moved to non-DRM'd M4P as soon the labels let them. As for why they preferred M4P (AAC) to MP3, it was a licensing issue. MP3 was patent encumbered until 2017. Apple, being Apple, didn't want to pay to license the encoder I believe.
  - throw0101b 3y ago
    AAC has licensing / patents: > However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC "end-user" codecs.[52] The terms (as disclosed to SEC) uses per-unit pricing. In the case of software, each computer running the software is to be considered a separate "unit".[53] […] > The AAC patent holders include Bell Labs, Dolby, ETRI, Fraunhofer, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Microsoft, NEC, NTT (and its subsidiary NTT Docomo), Panasonic, Philips, and Sony Corporation.[16][1] Based on the list of patents from the SEC terms, the last baseline AAC patent expires in 2028, and the last patent for all AAC extensions mentioned expires in 2031.[57] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensing_and_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensin...
    - etchalon 3y ago
      Yes, AAC is also patent encumbered, but the structure of the fees was apparently "better" for Apple. This was heavily discussed … Jesus, 15 years ago now … when everyone was pissed Apple didn't use MP3s. Basically, AAC was cheaper for Apple so that's what they used. But AAC was as "open" as MP3 and there was never any "lock in".
  - SllX 3y ago
    Small correction although you’re mostly right: m4p is the FairPlay encumbered file extension and unencumbered AAC audio files are (by default in iTunes) m4a.
Bud 3y ago
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voisin 3y ago

> Apple's default video players are severly lacking in almost all of their platforms Try opening the TV app on a multi monitor Mac. It is nearly god damn impossible to make it full screen on the monitor you want rather than the one it happened to open up on originally (I think based on app bar placement which annoyingly cannot be tied to a specific monitor or made to appear on all monitors)

mickdarling 3y ago
To control which monitor an app opens on a multi monitor Mac setup. First hover over the dock on the monitor you want the app to open on. Then open the app. It will treat that monitor like its main monitor.

dzhiurgis 3y ago

I love VLC but it framedrops 60fps videos on M1 Pro which is just bonkers performance

reactordev 3y ago
have you reported this issue to the VLC devs? VLC is by far the player with the most widely supported video codecs. I'm sure they will fix it if you report the issue to them.

cityhall 3y ago

This is probably an extension of their hostility to mp3s. They wanted to force people away from downloaded or ripped content and toward their own store.

etchalon 3y ago
That is ahistoric. Apple was forced into FairPlay by the labels, not by choice. They moved to non-DRM'd M4P as soon the labels let them. As for why they preferred M4P (AAC) to MP3, it was a licensing issue. MP3 was patent encumbered until 2017. Apple, being Apple, didn't want to pay to license the encoder I believe.
- throw0101b 3y ago
  AAC has licensing / patents: > However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC "end-user" codecs.[52] The terms (as disclosed to SEC) uses per-unit pricing. In the case of software, each computer running the software is to be considered a separate "unit".[53] […] > The AAC patent holders include Bell Labs, Dolby, ETRI, Fraunhofer, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Microsoft, NEC, NTT (and its subsidiary NTT Docomo), Panasonic, Philips, and Sony Corporation.[16][1] Based on the list of patents from the SEC terms, the last baseline AAC patent expires in 2028, and the last patent for all AAC extensions mentioned expires in 2031.[57] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensing_and_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensin...
  - etchalon 3y ago
    Yes, AAC is also patent encumbered, but the structure of the fees was apparently "better" for Apple. This was heavily discussed … Jesus, 15 years ago now … when everyone was pissed Apple didn't use MP3s. Basically, AAC was cheaper for Apple so that's what they used. But AAC was as "open" as MP3 and there was never any "lock in".
- SllX 3y ago
  Small correction although you’re mostly right: m4p is the FairPlay encumbered file extension and unencumbered AAC audio files are (by default in iTunes) m4a.

Bud 3y ago

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