VLC Media Player For Mac Free Download

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By Amily Smith Last updated Jun 20, 2023

VLC Media Player for Mac (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a lightweight multimedia player that supports a wide range of audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various video streaming media protocols. On a high-bandwidth network, it can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6.

VLC for macOS 2.1 is a significant update, with a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, porting to handheld devices, readiness for Ultra-HD recording, and extra care taken to accommodate further formats.

Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume, and device management, to improve VLC for Mac audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.

VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported.

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Supported File Formats

Video: MPEG-1/2, DivX® (1/2/3/4/5/6), MPEG-4 ASP, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.261, H.263 / H.263i, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Sorenson 1/3, DV, On2 VP3/VP5/VP6, Indeo Video v3 (IV32), Real Video (1/2/3/4).

Music: MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3 – MPEG Layer 3, AAC – MPEG-4 part3, Vorbis, AC3 – A/52, E-AC-3, MLP / TrueHD>3, DTS, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, FLAC, ALAC, Speex, Musepack / MPC, ATRAC 3, Wavpack, Mod, TrueAudio, APE, Real Audio, Alaw/µlaw, AMR (3GPP), MIDI, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, DV Audio, QDM2/QDMC, MACE.

Others: DVD, Text files (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Closed captions, Vobsub, Universal Subtitle Format (USF), SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, CMML, Kate.

VLC Media Player For Mac Fetures

Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.
Shader support in the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.
Debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
Resamplers for higher quality audio.
Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
Audio outputs for iOS, Android, and OS/2.
Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid, and WebM.
Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image, and some other codecs.
Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, BMP, etc.
Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.

System Requirements

Operating System

Mac OS X 10.7 and higher version

VLC Media Player For Mac FAQs

How to Stream Videos and Music Over the Network Using VLC?

VLC includes a fairly easy-to-use streaming feature that can stream music and videos over a local network or the Internet. You can tune into the stream using VLC or other media players.

Connecting to a Stream

To tune in to a stream, click the Media menu in VLC on another computer and select Open Network Stream.

Assuming you used HTTP, enter an address like http://IP.Address:8080.

(If you specified a custom path for your HTTP stream in the Path box, you’ll need to specify the custom path here. For example, if you specified /path as your custom path, you’d enter http://IP.Address:8080/path in the box here.)

After clicking Play, the stream should start playing. To control playback remotely, try setting up VLC’s web interface. If you encounter an error, make sure VLC isn’t being blocked by a firewall on the streaming system.[/vc_toggle]

How can I take screenshots?

To take a snapshot of the video displayed by VLC, you just need to press the pre-defined snapshot hotkey:

Windows/Linux/Unix: Ctrl + Alt + S
Mac OS X: Command + Alt + S

To change it, go to Preferences → Interface → Hotkeys settings, check Advanced Options, and set Take video snapshot.

You can also take a snapshot via the menu Video → Snapshot.

To change the snapshot format or directory, go to Preferences → Video.

How To Zoom Into Video In VLC Media Player?

Some users will find the Zoom option under the Video menu useful. It might not seem to do anything if the video is open in full screen or in the maximized window mode. But if the video is in the Window mode, it will have an effect.

To use the zoom feature that comes with VLC, do the following-

Open a video in windowed mode (it should not cover the entire screen area).
Navigate to Video > Zoom > (1:4 Quarter, 1:2 Half, 1:1 Original, 2:1 Double). [Hotkey- Z or Shift Z to cycle these options].
The window size changes to quarter, half, double or original of the video resolution.

VLC Media player Older Versions

Version Name	Date	Size	Download
2.2.8	30 November 2017	35.11 MB	Download
2.1.5	26th July 2014	31.97 MB	Download

Alternatives

Pot Player
MX Player
MPV Player
Real Player

What’s New In This Version

Core:

Fix compilation on OS/2

Access:

Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
Mac OS X audio output
Fix channel ordering
Increase the buffersize

Decoders:

Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
Fix PGS alignment in MKV

Qt Interface:

Don’t rename mp3 converted files to .raw

Mac OS X Interface:

Correctly support video-on-top
Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side

Streaming:

Fix transcode when audio format changes

Security contents:

Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)Translations:
Update British English

VLC Media Player Technical Specifications

Version	3.0.18
File Size	42.2 MB
Languages	English (United States) العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية) Čeština (Česká Republika) Dansk (Danmark) Deutsch (Deutschland) Español (España, Alfabetización Internacional) Français (France) עברית (ישראל) Magyar (Magyarország) Íslenska (Ísland) Italiano (Italia) 日本語 (日本) 한국어(대한민국) Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia) Norsk Bokmål (Norge) Nederlands (Nederland) Polski (Polska) Português (Brasil) Português (Portugal) Română (România) Русский (Россия) Slovenčina (Slovensko) Svenska (Sverige) Türkçe (Türkiye) Українська (Україна) 中文(中国)
License	Free
Developer	VideoLAN Team

Conclusion

The VLC media player is an application that comes equipped with all you need to fully enjoy media files as well as online streaming video. It supports all media file formats on all devices.