VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor or an Apple Silicon chip. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below. 1 On Mac OS 9; 2 Why VLC 0.8.1 doesn't work with Mac OS X 10.1.5? 3 Which is the last release for 10.2.8? 4 Why doesn't VLC 0.8.6a work on 10.3, although you state it does? 5 Do current releases of VLC work on Mac OS 10.5 / Leopard? 6 VLC just bounces in the Dock and quits or just shows a 'VLC' menu and nothing else. Many people who want to use VLC media playeron macOS will be intending to use the standard graphical interface that is provided by VLC. The standard interface consists of the eight menus in the menu bar and the 'VLC - Controller' window that opens up by default.
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The preferences menu
From VideoLAN Wiki Jump to navigation Jump to search This is an howto to compile VLC media player on macOS (formerly known as Mac OS X), focused on VLC 3.0 and later. VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization. VLC for Mac OS X VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
This menu gives you access to all the settings that establish the behaviour of types of commands. Most of these you will probably not need to touch when you first start using the package, others you will want to set as personal defaults and some you will want to set for a single use only. Each section of preferences comes in two flavours, ordinary and advanced. The ordinary preferences are settings for the simpler parameters of the application, the advanced settings require some deeper knowledge to use them effectively.
From VideoLAN Wiki Jump to navigation Jump to search This is an howto to compile VLC media player on macOS (formerly known as Mac OS X), focused on VLC 3.0 and later. VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization. VLC for Mac OS X VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
This menu gives you access to all the settings that establish the behaviour of types of commands. Most of these you will probably not need to touch when you first start using the package, others you will want to set as personal defaults and some you will want to set for a single use only. Each section of preferences comes in two flavours, ordinary and advanced. The ordinary preferences are settings for the simpler parameters of the application, the advanced settings require some deeper knowledge to use them effectively.
What you will notice is that in the preferences are items that are simple to understand and use as well as items that probably require you to be a developer to understand let alone use. Some I strongly suspect are mainly for debugging purposes and may be better if they were moved to such a section. The image above gives a beautiful example of this in action: the first preference is about enabling and setting a default output volume for the application, the second seems to be about a hardware/software standard, originating from Philips, but whose utility here escapes me even after after some web research. There may be a link with the ability to detect Dolby which follows immediately after but that doesn't go grey when the first is deselected so it is unclear. Again the ability to deselect Dolby detection is unlikely to appeal to a casual VLC user. There has been an attempt to separate these two types of preference through an advanced items checkbox visible in the image above. As you can see, since advanced is not selected, the criteria used for choosing advanced preferences may not fit the casual users perceptions
The preference sections are these:
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- Audio - which audio to play through which channels,
- Video - which video to play through which channels,
- Input / Codecs - how to interpret the video file/stream,
- Stream output - setting up a specific type of output,
- Advanced - as it says,
- Playlist - managing a short list of files for easy and quick access,
- Interface - choosing and configuring the alternate interfaces
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