VLC Player is a powerful, fast, and free open-source media player for Mac and Windows. It is one of the most popular video players on the Internet because of being able to play the most popular and least popular video file formats including ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, FLV, Matroska (MKV), MIDI, [b] QuickTime File Format, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM, DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB.
VLC Media Player is often seen on Windows Operating System. This version named VLC for Mac can run on Mac OS X and is endowed with the same functions as on Windows. It one of the best free, open source video players available for Mac devices. Key Features As already mentionned above, this VLC is especially conceived for Macs. Full list of the top Video Software apps that are similar to VLC Media Player, including Flip Player, Free Mac Bluray Player, Macgo Free Media Player, Aurora Bluray Player, Air Video Server HD.
One minor downfall is the native ability to be able to play multiple video files at once in the VLC application. In this guide, we demonstrate how to play multiple video files using VLC player for Mac X.
VLC documents how to play multiuple video files but we summarized and created simple steps to get multiple video files playing at once quickly.
1. Ensure you have the latest version ofVLC Player downloaded and installed on your Mac X. VLC.appmust be located in your Applications folder in order for this to work.
2. Download and unzip this compiled VLC Applet.
3. You will have a file called VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app on your desktop. The VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app application acts as another VLC player on your Mac X computer.
4. For any video you want to play in another screen, Right-Click a video file -> Open With -> Other… and choose VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app. Your video will open in a new VLC Application and will show in your Dock!
Note: Upon first opening a video using the VLC-MUTLIPLE-VIDEO.app file, you will be prompted my Mac to open the file, since it treats it as a new application that has not been opened yet.
You can do this for each video file you want to open separately. Notice the multiple VLC Players appearing in your Dock!
You can also safely place the VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app inside your Applications folder for easy access later.
Devices and Mac OS X version
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.
If you need help in finding the correct package matching your Mac's processor architecture, please see this official support document by Apple.
Web browser plugin for Mac OS X
Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates.
Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player
We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. You can find recommendations for the respective operating system version below. Note that support ended for all releases listed below and hence they won't receive any further updates.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Use VLC 2.2.8. Get it here.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Use VLC 2.0.10. Get it for PowerPC or 32bit Intel.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later is required
Use VLC 0.9.10. Get it for PowerPC or Intel.
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is required
Use VLC 0.8.6i. Get it for PowerPC.
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Use VLC 0.8.4a. Get it for PowerPC.
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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma
Download Vlc Player For Mac
Use VLC 0.7.0. Get it for PowerPC.