Soda Player

Excellent. My go to player. Movies seem to be more detailed.

As far as I know, Soda Player is the only convenient way to see subtitles in movies casted via Chromecast (VLC can't do this). However, when playing some downloaded MKV files, I get a blank (image; i.e., green) and working sound. Anyone knows of a workaround?

MPlayerX stopped working on my Mac Mojave. So I thought I would try Soda on the recommendation of the reviews. And must say so far I am very impressed.

Where is the "features" part of "feature-packed"? No menus to choose screen size, audio or subtitle choices (for mkvs that may contain more than one), A/V push/pull or *anything*. This is the most feature-barren video player I've ever used.

By far the best overall player I've used, and it's free!! I wish I could pay for this app, I feel bad using such a great app for free. It has gotten better with continued support from the team, I use it on my Windows PC's where it is great too. Plus it supports Acestream.

Keep up the great work guys!!

this is a great app for streaming to my AppleTV

Nice video player!

great App for viewing AceStream-translations in OSX ! using Wine, looks like "natural"

Looks fine so far.

As Trance points out, it does phone home at every launch. And, since the app quits when the window is closed, this is basically at every movie file start. Please be open about what is going on here. The app could use a loop function, range selection, and keyboard control over window size. The video quality and default zoom settings are awesome though. AirPlay is built right into the player window controls which is very cool, but the green check mark icon in the controls is inscrutable. Maybe it means the file can be decoded or something. If the file is playing then the check mark is redundant. The app played back every weird file format I could throw at it. The player window controls got stuck sometimes and did not fade out, and the progress indicator (a distractingly large bright blue) didn't always line up with the length of the file playback. Despite these shortcomings, given the video playback quality and the handy AirPlay controls, this is a great beta release. If it had a playlist function it would be my default movie player now. Four stars for effort and encouragement.

Well I couldn't even test this because it wants to phone home on startup and then fails to launch with the bouncing dock icon. From what I can see from the crash logs it is likely related to the electron framework.