VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Version 2.1.5:

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 is indispensable - not only on the Mac but on any platform. The only thing that never worked - at least for me (on Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks) - was the auto-update feature. If I select the check-for-updates menu I always get notified that there is no new version of VLC available even if there actually was a new version just released. Thus I always ended up downloading the new version from here and hope for that version to automatically notify me of an update. Would be great if that will get fixed any time soon. I admit thought that this is quite a minor annoyance compared to the many many benefits this app has.