Interesting they went with this title, the initials are VLC backwards.
Coincidence or what?
Command Line Video Player
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#22IINA [1] is an open-source [2], native [3] modern video player for macOS based on MPV [4]. [1] https://iina.io [2] https://github.com/iina/iina [3] Written in Swift and designed with modern macOS (10.11+) in mind [4] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
What's the benefit over VLC?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The modern media player for macOS. > For and only for modern macOS. > IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, As a policy I stay away from all software whose primary marketed feature is being “modern,” which I wholly consider to be a meaningless term.
That’s not a bad policy but it’s solid software, basically a Cocoa wrapper around MPV which as it turns out, is a fairly solid idea. Years ago when VLC was the rage, I could open any video or sound file I wanted in QuickTime Player with an array of plug-ins including Persian, Flip4Mac and a couple others I’ve long since forgotten. That served me well until it became impossible to install and use QuickTime 7 on a mode…
What makes it better than VLC?
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#24IINA [1] is an open-source [2], native [3] modern video player for macOS based on MPV [4]. [1] https://iina.io [2] https://github.com/iina/iina [3] Written in Swift and designed with modern macOS (10.11+) in mind [4] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
iina is a really nice player, but unfortunately maintenance of it seems to have slowed quite a lot. There's a lot of piled up issues and pull requests.
You'll also find that even on the most powerful of Macs that it will struggle with higher resolution video playback that QuickTime Player, VLC, or straight mpv play without issue.
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#25IINA [1] is an open-source [2], native [3] modern video player for macOS based on MPV [4]. [1] https://iina.io [2] https://github.com/iina/iina [3] Written in Swift and designed with modern macOS (10.11+) in mind [4] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
IINA is close to perfect software for me. It has a minimal (invisible until I need it) UI with just the options I need a click away. Yet powerful with all the advanced features available in the menu bar should I need them.
It has clean and well organised preferences that come with sensible defaults.
I have used it for over three years and not had a crash or bug with it ever. Never failed to play a file, even partially downloaded via torrent (so just random fragments of the file it was able to handle properly rather than just error/crash out).
But what I love most is that it is just a media player. It doesn't try to be a capture tool or converter or editor. It plays video and music files and does that job superbly.
If you're a macOS user I can't think of a better media player out there. Plus it is not only free but open source!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The modern media player for macOS. > For and only for modern macOS. > IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, As a policy I stay away from all software whose primary marketed feature is being “modern,” which I wholly consider to be a meaningless term.
Meaning often comes easier when sentences are finished. IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to the user interface. It adopts the post-Yosemite design language of macOS and keeps up the pace of new technologies like Force Touch, Touch Bar, and Picture-in-Picture.
Many other media players were once born to be “modern” macOS applications. What happens when all of those things cease to be apple’s current recommendations? Will IINA cease being modern? Will there be any compelling reason to still use it?
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#28Interesting they went with this title, the initials are VLC backwards. Coincidence or what?
It's called mpv. "Command line video player" is the description.
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#29It's also worth noting that you can use this with libcaca [1] to get a truly command-line video player, i.e. one that plays videos in an 80x20 terminal, with --vo=caca. (Note that not all distributions compile this in, I guess to save space as most people probably don't actually want to watch videos via an ssh pipe...)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
For Windows users, there's mpv.net, which adds a GUI for configuration editing and a command palette. [1][2] There is also mpc-qt, which replicates the classic MPC-HT UI, but with libmpv as the backend. [3] Personally I found mpv's defaults sane enough to not need a GUI for it, but I did release an unofficial version to the Windows 10 Store with a wrapper that adds file association and macOS-style single instance sup…
I use SMPlayer. Despite somewhat "ugly" UI, it's a very capable MPV skin. [1] https://www.smplayer.info/
SMPlayer is a GUI for the (quite old now) MPlayer.
IIRC a long time ago mpv was based on mplayer, though probably no shared code exists anymore.