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Reading over an article on TidBITS today, I've now discovered a new media player that may take the place of the venerable VLC Media Player. I've simply lost count of the number of years that I've been using VLC (and recommending it to most of my clients), it was probably some time in the early 2000's that I first started using it.
IINA is pretty cool but I still don't understand why Apple doesn't make a first-party media player that actually supports all modern video formats, optimized for the system, and has native UX. Honestly, it's embarrassing we still have to rely on third party stuff which may or may not be maintained in the future and cannot take advantage of low. IINA is a free and open-source media player for macOS that's based on MPV. It can play pretty much anything you throw at it (even GIFs), supports web streams, has support for PiP, supports playlists and chapters, comes with support for Force Touch and Touch Bar and so much more. The only thing IINA is missing is AirPlay support.
- IINA (/ ˈiːnə /) is a free and open-source media player software based on mpv and written in Swift for macOS. It is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
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- Hence stand-alone players like VLC/IINA, along with more elaborate media database and playback systems like Plex/Kodi, will remain supporting them for the foreseeable future. Although, if you are a video editor who has stock in one of these obscure or out-dated formats, you may or may not want to convert it into something more viable over the.
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While VLC will play just about any media file that you throw in it's direction, it's clear from the user interface that it's not an app that was designed for macOS, but rather one that aims for wide, cross platform compatibility.
Enter from stage left, IINA. The modern media player for macOS.
IINA is designed and built exclusively for macOS, so follows a lot of the general conventions set out by Apple, such as picture-in-picture support, a more streamlined (some may say restricted) interface and support for Dark Mode on Mojave. It also supports the Touch Bar on current Mac laptops, uses mouse and trackpad gestures for media control and can tie into the media control keys on the keyboard.
Under the hood, IINA uses mpv which is an up-to-date media playing library that will also handle nearly any video format it's given. It supports things like GPU acceleration for video playback and is under active development to ensure the code remains clean and fast and supports newly developed video and audio formats.
Check out IINA and let me know what you think…
Source: Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats with the IINA Video Player – TidBITS
