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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.
What's New
Version 2.1.4:
  • Solves an important DVD playback regression
Requirements
  • Intel, 64-bit processor
  • OS X 10.6 or later





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VLC Media Player User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 2.x:
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barzus reviewed on 12 Apr 2014
I used to love vlc, but after upgrading to 2.1.4, it routinely caused kernel panics. Doing a few searches shows that vlc has had a frequent history of causing kernel panics for many people (50K+ results for vlc+kernel+panic), regardless of os version and vlc version. And the vlc doesn't even care about the problem. Any ticket that reports the problem gets closed with a message saying it's not vlc's problem and apple has to fix it.
[Version 2.1.4]


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Insecure-Software reviewed on 23 Feb 2014
No support for syphon...
[Version 2.1.4]


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Jazzyguy reviewed on 22 Feb 2014
This is a great way to watch my movies and Songs.I love it.
[Version 2.1.4]


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Umaromc commented on 22 Feb 2014
32-bit is up to 2.0.10, BTW

http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.0.10/macosx/vlc-2.0.10-intel32.dmg
[Version 2.1.4]


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+40

Hendricx reviewed on 21 Feb 2014
It may not have a fancy player GUI but it for sure plays everything.
A must have
[Version 2.1.4]


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Davidson69 reviewed on 21 Feb 2014
As always great update of the already best media player available.
[Version 2.1.4]


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karenw6819 reviewed on 19 Feb 2014
This is great for almost any video format , and I like how easy it is to change the aspect ratio of nay video to better suit your tv ( is a macmini connected to my tv). The one problem I have is trying to play some dvd's it doesn't seem to like them so I have to go back to the default dvd player software.
[Version 2.1.3]


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Albabe commented on 06 Feb 2014
Two days and this Update still doesn't connect through the "Check For Updates" within the Client. Odd.
[Version 2.1.3]


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Georg-74 reviewed on 05 Feb 2014
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.
[Version 2.1.3]

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pedropanza replied on 05 Feb 2014
Agreed that this is one very useful .app. There must be an issue peculiar to your machine Georg-74 as I have used in-app updates for some time now on 10.6.8 MBP i7.
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Georg-74 replied on 05 Feb 2014
@pedropanza : Thanks for your hint ... I have this issue on two machines - a MBP with 10.6.8 (C2D) and an iMac (i7) with Mavericks and Lion/Mountain Lion earlier.
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+138
Star-Affinity replied on 07 Feb 2014
I don't think there's any problem with updating from within the app, it's just that there (for whatever reason) is a delay until it shows up within the application after a new version has been released. But once it does the auto-update works.
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Rick Gee reviewed on 04 Feb 2014
Version 2.13 once again works with an external drive connected to my MBP through USB. Version 2.12 didn't and I had gone back to an older version.
[Version 2.1.3]


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Wanderer had trouble on 04 Feb 2014
I used to be able to Quicklook .avi movies but since this update I can't. Not sure it's related to VLC but nothing else changed.
[Version 2.1.3]


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Jean-Loup had trouble on 16 Nov 2013
VLC launches iTunes when I open a video file on 10.6.8.

So strange, didn't find anything related to iTunes in the prefs.

Note : Using iTunes 6.0.5. :-)
[Version 2.1.1]


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Aargl had trouble on 14 Nov 2013
- "Freebox TV" has yet to come back in the Internet section
- subtitles for tv streams remain visible until the next subtitle comes (I've checked immediately v2.0.8 where they behave like they should, disappearing after a while — for example during a long silent scene)
=> apart from that it's a good move they created a subtitles menu! I really like. ;-)
(just in case: those tests were made under 10.6.8)
[Version 2.1.1]

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Aargl replied on 10 Dec 2013
not fixed in 2.1.2
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Yoshinatsu had trouble on 29 Sep 2013
2.1.0 seems to crash all the time on 10.6.8.
What the hell happened?
[Version 2.1.0]


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Jean-Loup had trouble on 26 Sep 2013
VLC crashing when I move into the movie by clicking inside the bottom bar, .mkv/.avi/.mp4 in HD or SD.
[Version 2.1.0]


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MarikaMitsotaki had trouble on 15 Sep 2013
VLC crashes ALL THE TIME after 10.8.5 update. Can't open anything.
[Version 2.0.8]


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chromafile had trouble on 30 Jul 2013
VLC 2.0.8 was pulled from videolan.org. It seems audio decoder (libavcodec) has a bug that causes a crash not only on Mac but also on Windows.
[Version 2.0.8]


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machine156 had trouble on 22 Jan 2013
I would stick with VLC 2.0.3

.4 and .5 have audio issues...
'06 Mac mini | OS 10.6 | Optical out

sometimes you have to quit and reopen VLC to get audio to work.
[Version 2.0.5]

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Feepk replied on 11 Apr 2013
Can you still reproduce this issue with VLC 2.0.6 or a 2.1 nightly build?
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machine156 replied on 22 Apr 2013
yes, I can reproduce this issue with VLC 2.0.6

With VLC 2.0.4 or 2.0.5 (didn't test 2.0.6) on my Mac Mini '06: if you start a video, unpause, skip to the next video, skip around in the time of a video; 1 out of 3 times, sound will stop outputting on SPDIF. So pausing/rewinding a video is basically impossible, I have to quit VLC and reopen to get sound.

My Mac Mini '12 with VLC 2.0.5 or 2.0.6 its more rare, like 1 out of 100 times.

but VLC 2.0.3 doesn't have this issue. VLC 2.0.4-2.0.6 seems to have little audio drop outs as well...
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Aargl had trouble on 11 Aug 2012
PPC version:
- subtitles for streaming tv doesn't work anymore and closes the video window instead.

- displaying playlists in the main window takes time to update every time I click on an item.
[Version 2.0.3]

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Aargl replied on 18 Oct 2012
v204 works better, the lag for displaying playlists is gone but video still closes itself when selecting a different audio track or a subtitle.
Maybe fixed in 205? ;-)
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Egami had trouble on 30 Jun 2012
VErsion 2.0.1 does not works in the Mountain Lion DP 4, sicne Mountain Lion dropped support for X11. Now VLC wo't even run. Strange, because the previous version I had ran just fine.
[Version 2.0.1]

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Feepk replied on 01 Jul 2012
This is fixed in the 2.0.2 release. GateKeeper isn't supported yet, but it will come shortly!


Liselotte rated on 12 Apr 2014

[Version 2.1.4]



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Quiiick rated on 04 Apr 2014

[Version 2.1.4]



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Gitte rated on 29 Mar 2014

[Version 2.1.4]




TahirW2993 rated on 26 Mar 2014

[Version 2.1.4]




creo318 rated on 17 Mar 2014

[Version 2.1.4]




FreddyD5690 rated on 12 Mar 2014

[Version 2.1.4]



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ApplesGuy rated on 28 Feb 2014

[Version 2.1.4]




fawza rated on 26 Feb 2014

[Version 2.1.4]



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Gary_box rated on 25 Feb 2014

[Version 2.1.4]



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ErvinsS rated on 21 Feb 2014

[Version 2.1.4]


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Date:21 Feb 2014
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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.


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