Vlc media player free download for mac

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Download VLC Media Player for Mac Latest Version
Web browser plugin for Mac OS X
Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player
How do I download VLC Media Player on my Mac?
Is VLC free for Mac?
Is VLC Media Player safe for Mac?
Is VLC better than QuickTime on Mac?

VLC Media Player for Mac

November, 22nd 2022 - 80.58 MB - Open Source

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Latest Version:
VLC Media Player 3.0.18 LATEST
Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.7 or later
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Author / Product:
VideoLAN team / VLC Media Player for Mac
Old Versions:
Filename:
vlc-3.0.18-universal.dmg
MD5 Checksum:
242e9dab149ccfcc428bcbbe78b2dfab
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VLC Media Player for Mac 2022 full offline installer setup for Mac

VLC Media Player for Mac (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC for macOS.

Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC for Mac audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.

VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. 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.

Features and Highlights

Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.
Shader support in the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.
Debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
Resamplers for higher quality audio.
Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp etc.
Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
And many more features...

Also Available: Download VLC Media Player for Windows

Download VLC Media Player for Mac Latest Version

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

The software runs across Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Linux, Unix and Android, with a Windows Phone version currently in the works. It is designed to be a versatile program catering to the needs of as many different users as possible, no matter what their preferred platform.

If you need help in finding the correct package matching your Mac's processor architecture, please see this official support document by Apple. You can also choose to install a Universal Binary.

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.

How do I download VLC Media Player on my Mac?

Mac OS X. Download the Mac OS X package from the VLC MacOS X download page . Double-click on the icon of the package : an icon will appear on your Desktop, right beside your drive(s). Open it and drag the VLC application from the resulting window to the place where you want to install it (it should be /Applications).

Is VLC free for Mac?

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.

Is VLC Media Player safe for Mac?

Is VLC media player safe? Many users may question whether VLC media player for Mac is safe to use. To ensure 100% security, VLC player should only be downloaded from a trustworthy site. This will make sure the version used does not have viruses, spyware, or malware.

Is VLC better than QuickTime on Mac?

Some of the best players are VLC and QuickTime. For Mac users, QuickTime Player is the first choice since it is bundled with Mac OS X. For windows users, it's better to choose VLC Media Player.