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I highly recommend IINA as an open source video player.
Copying my comment from a few days ago:
> I recently switched from VLC to IINA and I couldn't be happier. It's so much faster, prettier and open source as well. Feels like it puts less load onto my CPU in some scenarios (which makes sense, because it's written in Swift exclusively for macOS).
I still have VLC installed, but IINA took its place in 99% of use cases.
Have you tried IINA Player for macOS? Not 100% sure if it plays 10-bit, but it is worth checking out. I like the UI much better than VLC or QT.
I think most festivals use some professional VJ Software like Resolume, but it is quite expensive.
Tot – beautiful stream-of-consciousness note taking menubar app
IINA – VLC is great and all, but IINA takes the cake when it comes to a native user interface. Plus, its built-in support of customisable trackpad gestures is just baller.
Pixelmator Pro – THE native image editing software. They're been in the game for like a decade or more now.
Doesn't have explicit YT integration, but IINA supports playing YouTube videos and has a safari extension that adds an "Open in IINA" when you right click on links, which isn't too bad
Nothing comes close to IINA, in my opinion. It’s also Apple Silicon native. As for the HDR videos, I don’t think there are any third-party video players that support HDR on macOS; I could be wrong, though.
Hi there,
well well well ....... I finally manage to really LOVE the Touch Bar , on a macbook 16 inch with a real escape key
I'm a musician :
Try miditouchbar and you'll get a Midi controller onboard,
Also try IINA to read any Multimedia file, and get full usage of the Touch Bar..
Then use Apple "Quick Action" from automator, to create some of your needed work flow or frequently used action, then you'll get a button in your touchbar... (after you press the quick action icon)
like "turn wifi off" "toggle to dark mode" "show function keys".. and many more...
It takes time at first, but then... you'll save a lot a time
Here is my gift, thanks to many others in this community:
Create 3 quick actions from automator, using scriptshell to tell terminal what to do
then assign shortcuts to them
so You could manage your touchbar and switch from the 3 states frequently
function keys / full touch bar / reduce touch bar:
defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal fullControlStrip ;
pkill "Touch Bar agent"; killall "ControlStrip";
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defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal app ;
pkill "Touch Bar agent"; killall "ControlStrip";
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defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal appWithControlStrip ;
pkill "Touch Bar agent"; killall "ControlStrip";
It's been a year now, to get really use to it... and I really think that this bar (or another one , maybe bigger and/or near the pad) will have its 2nd chance ...one day
Cheers
Mac user here, for an ad-less experience I browse videos via the site but watch them via iina media player and youtube-dl (which is an amazing tool in its own right)
I had the same problem w/ my M1 Mac and I decided to install IINA video player. It's available to run natively on M1 Macs and it's written in swift which makes it fast and lightweight and on top of that it has built in youtube-dl and you don't have to install anything else.
Just drag-and-drop your YouTube link into the IINA window and your video will play.
Youtube-dl will play YouTube videos by default at 4K, but you can force IINA to use a certain resolution.
Go to preferences and then in network ( sorry currently typing this on Windows). Just find the raw format option and paste the bold text (configurable) there and it will play videos in 1080p and you can also check the resolution by clicking the playlist button.
format="bestvideo[height<=?1080][fps<=?30][vcodec!=?vp9]+bestaudio/best[height<=?1080]"
QuickTime is a program. MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI and M4V (to name some) are containers.
Containers do exactly what they do in the real world, hold media. Video streams, audio streams, subtitles, chapter info and even cover art (to name some). Subsequently each type of content varies. You can have an MKV file with DTS sound or MP3 or AAC. Or a video file that in format. Some containers do not support some formats.
One thing to note, QT is actually pretty restricted in what it supports. It cannot play back files within a Matroska container (MKV) for example. I highly recommend moving to a more robust player. I have found IINA (https://iina.io) to be king.
IINA also has far more modern features, like allowing you to load external subs (even automatically based on file name).
>Right now it follows system theme when windowed and dark when fullscreen. An option to set always dark will be added later.
I was running Adwaita-dark when I tried it and it was still light.
>Yes. It is powered by GStreamer so it can decode everything that GStreamer can (and it is a lot). As for hwaccel, the older gstreamer-vaapi plugins support: h264, h265, mjpeg, mpeg2 and vc1. The "new" va series gstreamer plugins work much better than the older plugins, but due to current GTK limitation they are working on Wayland only. Right now va supports h264 (8-bit) through vah264dec (can be enabled in player prefs). There is already work started on vp9 and h265, so those improved va codecs will be supported too in next GStreamer 1.20 version.
Oh, right, I hope Gstreamer support hybrid codec, it was kinda short lived because Skylake already decodes VP9.
>It not only goes from interface->no interface, but also sets and remembers window size (separately for PiP and normal window). Setting it to change appearance on hover would be a little disturbing in such case. Most people would probably want to have the PiP smaller then normal window and resizing it manually would be much more work than single button click.
Yeah, I agree that it should still have a regular PiP, but I was talking about an interface like Quicktime or IINA, not necessarily like this, it could be regular GTK widgets, just overlapping the video section and disappearing when the mouse is not over the window.
>All of them will be added gradually.
Great! Thanks a lot.
You should try NOT to install any of the suggested apps. Many of then are closed-source and/or require disabling SIP.
Try the vanilla system first. Only mod it if you absolutely need to.
With that said, if you find yourself unsatisfied by QuickTime, you should try iina. It's much better than VLC.
I'm afraid there is no easy way to do so.
WMV is a Microsoft proprietary package format. It's designed for Windows Media Player and only the now-obsoleted IE can play it directly. It a fossilized format that had never been part of web standard, old or new; even Microsoft had abandoned support for it in their newer web browsers.
Also, the so called "plug-in" is an obsoleted technology, too, that had been forbidden by all mainstream web browsers since long times ago. Anyone who told you to do that must have been living under a rock for 5+ years.
So far all the solutions includes embedding an IE browser inside another browser (like Chrome) and let the IE to handle it. It's only available on Windows and, need not to say, it's really dangerous to do so. I won't recommend this even she is doing that on a Windows PC; it's no better than forcing someone to eat a fruit can that is expired 10 years ago.
Alternatively, try to find out the the URL of that movie, and open that URL inside a video player, such as VLC or IINA. Try to right click on the grey region to see if there is any hints. Otherwise you must find out the URL from web browser's developer tool. Sorry but there is no standard approach for this, because it's totally depending on how is that web page composed; in some worst case you need to be familiar with Javascript and track the all connections made from that web page to find it out.
The best solution is to file complains to the board of education, accusing that the school put student's private property in danger, and force them to convert it into something more modern.
Since you didn’t mention a specific OS and you mentioned mpv, I’ll throw IINA in the mix. It’s macOS-only and uses many of the native features of the OS to make it integrate well with the ecosystem (dark/light mode, force touch, touchbar support, etc).
IINA is FOSS and powered by mpv. I found the mpv client implementation to be extremely buggy (at least on macOS) and it would crash all the time.
I also have VLC and use it in the rare occasion I need to quickly preview audio files and don’t want to fire up iTunes, but I think most of its user experience decisions are quite outdated and executing some crucial actions within the application is cumbersome and slow.
Don't want to use chrome? Use the IINA player. It does 4k. It is free and open-source. The safari extension is included, 1 click opens YouTube video in the app. It also does many other things. <strong>https://iina.io</strong> Before the av1 codec arrives, this could be the solution to some people.
The era of the vp9/hevc battle is probably ending soon as both Google and Apple are most likly going to support av1.
The era of the vp9/hevc battle is probably ending soon as both Google and Apple are most likely going to support av1. he player. It does do 4k.
https://iina.io The safari extension is included with the app.
I personally use IINA which is free and open-source.
I've replaced VLC with it and for now, no looking back.
It doesn't have library control (to my knowledge) but if you have a folder for the album and you manage your files that way (which I do) it works just fine, you can do playlists though, so that's neat.
My MacBook has no problem watching 4K video streaming from the YouTube servers. Can't speak for Chrome tabs because I use Safari for browsing. In case you're wondering, I watch 4K YouTube with IINA.
Ah yea anything Google related is going to act funny on other browsers. Firefox is constantly getting messed with, it's funny because depending on the site you can just change the user agent to spoof Chrome (while in Firefox, never tested on Safari) and it will start working fine.
If you use Google apps quite a bit then keeping Chrome around would be a good idea because they are simply going to perform better on that browser.
FYI, one thing that is annoying to me with Safari is how you cannot play any videos over 1080p. There is a free open source program called IINA that includes a Safari extension. Say you are on YouTube or something and want to watch a 4k video, there is an icon in the toolbar you can click to automatically open it in IINA. The extension also adds a button for when you right click on a link to open in IINA so you don't have to load the entire page, it will just send the video straight to the video player.
I'm pretty sure many video players can display two sets of subtitles simultaneously, despite Potplayer which is also good.
For example, mpv, a command line video player though. If you are using a Mac, I'll definitely recommend the mpv-based player IINA(https://iina.io), which is very easy to use and efficient.
I did the same thing, once VLC stopped working on my iMac, after the Catalina / DosDude patch. There was some weird bug, probably related to graphics card acceleration being turned off, that made VLC play nothing but a black screen with audio after the dosdude patch was applied. It's a solid recommendation. https://iina.io/ Movies in Linux works much better than VLC player, on my encrypted movie storage in the cloud, if anyone has issues with VLC player, you should give Movies or IINA a shot.
- IINA
- Preview. If you need anything more advanced, PDF Expert or PDF Pen (not free)
- Pages, Numbers and Keynote are free. I hate non-native apps so cannot recommend Libre or Open Office.
IINA is all you need, and has online subtitle downloads. It's the only media player I use now and I've associated all video media file types to open in IINA. It's very good, much better than VLC. The website doesn't illustrate all the features ("coming soon") but it has it it all and works better than anything else I've tried.
FWIW, I also had an SE30, after my first computer, the Apple II circa 1978.
Picture in picture is a feature which allows the IINA window to float on top of other windows, say you are writing a report or coding, and at the same time want to watch a tutorial or a show on top of the original window without switching spaces/desktops.
Example about PiP from their page: https://i.imgur.com/S77gtAu.jpg
List of features: https://iina.io/
If you want a good media player, try IINA:
If you need any Windows application that is not available for macOS, then Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion are equally good solutions:
I use another open source player IINA .
I can Open URL a YouTube video and switch the subtitle just right in the menu (no download required)
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Eh comment tu me parles toi ? J'utilise IINA que quelqu'un d'ici m'avait conseillé ; ça ressemble graphiquement à QuickTime (donc intégration esthétique parfaite), ça lit tout ce dont j'ai besoin, et ça consomme beaucoup moins que QuickTime.
J'ai gardé VLC au cas où pour les rares fois ou je cherche à faire des trucs un peu inhabituels, parce qu'il est quand même vachement plus poussé pour tout ce qui n'est pas basique.
Sierra .... try the Ci build: https://ci.popcorntime.sh/view/All/job/Popcorn-Time-Desktop/294/. It's an improved OSX version of 3.10.
If that doesn't help try using IINA player ... very popular amongst Mac users: https://iina.io
Sierra .... try the Ci build: https://ci.popcorntime.sh/view/All/job/Popcorn-Time-Desktop/294/. It's an improved OSX version of 3.10.
If that doesn't help try using IINA player ... very popular amongst Mac users: https://iina.io
Only tangentially related, but if you’re looking for a VLC/MPV-type player on macOS, check out IINA - it’s an open-source wrapper around MPV to make it act more like a macOS application (read: dark mode, trackpad gestures, a preferences window, Touch Bar support...).