VLC Media Player for Mac3.0.12

MACUPDATE please read. VLC is now available in separate Intel and ARM (Apple Silicon) versions, with DIFFERENT versioning schemes. The download you are hosting currently as of this date is the ARM version. As I"ve been telling MU for several months you need to come up with a system/policy for how to document and catalog Universal and/or ARM only apps. There a many Universal apps now, but if you look at the MAc Update page for them, there is no indication that they are Universal and requirements still say Intel-64. VLC is the first app I've seen that comes as separate installers, but logical to think more will come, for whatever reason a Universal app is not available (technical reasons, licensing, size of the executable, who knows). So come up with a system to handle this new world we live in, every day that goes by it only will get more confusing. Maybe that means separate MU pages for each platform in the case of VLC, or you need to host both versions and offer the user a choice which file when downloading. For apps that are now Universal, you need to indicate under requirements that they are universal, because there are users that may want to run native-ARM apps, if available (and if you own an ARM mac, why wouldn't you want to run native apps if available?). What would be great is a search filter to search for Universal apps

NOTE: v3.0.12.1 is specifically for ARM 64 ONLY. Don't bother downloading this version for Intel x86.

MacUpdate ADMIN: system requirements changed - this won't run on Mac OS 10.13 !!!

Being objective: for anyone discovering VLC, it's a great multi-purpose player. But for old users: v3 is not still on a par with v2.2.8! :-o I'm essentially having issues with my TV provider streams: - subtitles: way too big even with "Smaller" selected in the menu (ok, this was not much better in 2.2.8 as the menu options weren't working at all, but at least the subtitles had the right size ;-) ) - faulty streams or faulty recordings: it happens that some image is pixelated, v3 accentuates them and even stops playing audio while v2 plays them quite ok - v3 is very touchy when you're doing something else while watching TV, quirks might appear or audio might get interrupted — but Activity Monitor doesn't show anything particular. Considering I'm on MacOS 10.11 on a Sandy Bridge i3, my guess is VLC3 is hopefully behaving better on recent computers/OSes... Unfortunately, this time again, I've come back to old 2.2.8.

Broken in Mojave 10.14.6 - menu distortion & bad colour artefacting make it impossible to use menus while any kind of video is on.

If anyone is interested, I've found the Changelog page: https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS

Well, let's face the truth: one year has passed since v3.0 and the bugs are still there... :-( Nothing has moved since I filed my bug 3 months ago, the least we can say is that the pace of development is quite slow. So sad, but I tend to use more and more VLC's rivals.

Went back to version 2.2.8. I use a feature whereby if you place the cursor on the timeline bar, using the scroll button on mouse up and down will advance time forward and backward. In 2.2.8 the motion is smooth, and the increments predictable. In 3.0.6 it will work sometimes, then other times the time marker will jump randomly to a spot far ahead (or behind) what you would expect based on the degree of motion on the scroll, sometimes as much as 30+ minutes ahead or back, when at most it should have incremented a minute give or take (compared to 2.2.8).

This is a deal breaker for me, as I use this feature constantly to review short, specific clips over and over. I'm a little hard of hearing, so when I'm watching a video, often I miss something or can't make it out unless I hear it repeated a few times, so this feature to be able to quickly scroll back in very short increments is useful. Yes, I know you can click on the timeline bar, but the granularity is not as fine as using the scroll feature. For a 2 hour movie, clicking even the slightest amount on either side of the current time marker still results in a jump of several minutes or more, instead of seconds. This is on a Mac mini 2018 with the i7 upgrade, so I know it is not due (or shouldn't be) to CPU or video lag. it has been reported (actually had already reported it when 3.0.0 came out)

I encourage every VLC users here to report any issue at https://forum.videolan.org/
As VLC3 is getting better, I've filed my issue about .ts audio being out of sync: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=147595
We can't expect using great freeware such as VLC without spending some of our time reporting bugs. ;-)
I suppose that when they have enough reports about a specific issue they focus on it...
This is the only issue I've found, but it's a fundamental one for my use case, so I keep relying on v2.2.8 until it's fixed.

Looks like 3.0.5 finally fixed every issue! If you were a v2 user, you HAVE TO reset the prefs to start anew, otherwise you'll have issues (mainly with subtitles). If you want your settings to be permanent, you MUST set them with no video loaded, otherwise they won't stick. There's only one issue left with subtitles: you can't set a colored background as permanent setting, only through the menu — which apply only to the current video. I bet you could manually edit the pref file to get it back, but I think I can live without that... ;-) Resuming playback position works with every format I've tested, so I don't see any reason to stick to v2, this time. Hopefully we won't discover new bugs...

Still showing version 3.04 upon download not 3.05.

how about the weird bug, that with some videos the fast forward step keyboard shortcut skips the whole video, while with some videos it steps just a second? to me v3 is a bit of a mess. it seems the vlc team is just concerned with techie nuts and bolts while terrible usability/ui bugs stay unnoticed. vlc always was the best player out there but now i'm looking out for alternatives.

Great app. A must have for Mac owners. How does one get rid of the second play window in version 3? I've had to revert back to 2.2.8.

I must say since version 3 VLC is very buggy. A lot of small things are not working. Keystrokes get lost or mixed up, The same for Video Effects...

Getting a black screen during replay of some mpg and other files, but which work as normal under 2.2.8. Have totally deleted VLC 3.0 a couple of times and reinstalled in case it is a preferences or plist problem, but has made no difference. back to 2.2.8 for the time being. I've also had numerous crashes and hangs with 3.0x, which were almost unknown for me in any of the 2.x versions, so it looks like 3.x still has a way to go.

I do like VLC, but it has a *really* annoying bug, and it's been there about a decade now. Many movies that contains a few foreign language scenes (but not all of them) do not display English subtitles during those scenes when viewed using VLC. DVDPlayer just works in that regard, and always has. The topic keeps coming up in the VLC forums and the developers (admittedly doing all of their fine work for free) haven't found the right motivation to fix it. Even very recent movies that contain such foreign language segments such as "Call Me By Your Name" simply cannot be viewed in VLC. So annoying...

According to VideLan's site, version 3.0.1 is out. Has anyone tried it to see if any of the initial bugs are fixed? Since I haven't had a lot of problems here, I haven't noticed any big differences.

Hmm..a flurry of 'new' users to MacUpdate, all signing up on the same day Feb 12, giving 5 star reviews of VLC 3.0 but no other posts, only VLC. Resulting as of today, a 4 star overall rating for the current 3.0 version, which has OBVIOUS and glaring bugs and issues. Hmm..just say'in.

Head over to VideoLAN and review the bug list for 3.0 so far, you read some of them, and you say 'Really?..How did that not get caught in testing?" Don't get me wrong, I'm a VLC supporter (I have donated) and advocate, but boy, this 3.0 release has been / is really sloppy.

Couple issues I ran into with Version 3.0
First, loses its file association to play MKV files, at least for me. Previously with 2.2.8, MKV files were set to open with VLC by default. After installing 3.0, that association broke, In Finder, double clicking on an MKV will not launch VLC. Right click on MKV file in Finder and select Open and Open With.. no longer show VLC as an app that can open MKV. Tried to reset file association using the two usual methods 1) In Finder, Open With then 'Other..', but in the Finder dialog window, VLC is greyed out as an app that can handle MKV, so you can't select it. 2) Tried 'Get Info' on a MKV file, select Open With, VLC gone from list of apps, then try Other... same thing, VLC is greyed out in the Finder dialog. Appears VLC is not registering itself with macOS as an app capable of handling MKV. I reported this to VideoLAN.

Second, when set to resume playing at previous time mark of a video when you last stopped viewing it, appears broke. It always jumps to the time mark saved when the video was last play in VLC 2.2.8. For example, let's saly you view a video in 2.2.8, and stop watching at the 20 min mark. If you reopen in 2.2.8 it will resume playback at 20 min mark. Open the video in VLC 3.0, jump to a different time mark in the clip, like the 40 min mark, stop. Reopen, VLC 3. 0 should resume at the 40 min time mark, but instead resumes at the 20 min time mark of when it was last opened in 2.2.8. Apparently when quiting, it is not refreshing the time mark of where you are at the video in the metadata it stores for each clip. So when you restart, it reloads the same time info from metadata that was never updated. Reported this one as well.

You know the old saying, be wary of .0 (dot zero) releases.

Yes, a problem with sound. Pause and do something else on the computer, then go back to viewing is not possible. Intermittent and jumping sound, you can only restart the view.

vlc 3.0.0 out now https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.0/

I use vlc 2.2.7 It works great for me. I cannot find a vlc 2.2.8 anywhere - not on Sourceforge, not on Videolan's site. In fact, even VideoLan doesn't have 2.2.7, it has only 2.2.6 as its latest rev. This isn't the first app that MacUpdate said had an update, when MacUpdate installed an old version I already had. Something is fishy in all this, but I don't have a workaround.

How is this version newer than what's listed on videolan.org? That seems suspect to me.

As of May 26, 2017 This program has been reported by MacLife to be a security risk that exposes devices to hacking. Given the date of the latest version, I am concerned that this issue still exists the the 12-May-17 update as I could not find anything related to this particular issue on the apps website. My plan is to uninstall my current version and put this app on the watchlist, then reinstall it when a new version that addresses this issue is released.

Newest Version no longer works in Mavericks.

DISREGARD the post from @jackjames9012 from April 3, 2017 below. The website he points to is a known malicious website that posts malware infected programs.

why would someone need a different player? it's free and works great