IINA - a VideoLAN VLC replacement?

I’ve been using VideoLAN’s VLC for forever. (Probably at least 20 years? On a Sony VAIO running Linux. (I had two; a PCG-XG29 PIII-750 with 128MB RAM, and a PCG-Z505R PII-366 64MB magnesium ultrabook.) (When did mplayer start running out of steam?)) I was ecstatic when it was ported to Mac OS X. It’s totally the Swiss Army Knife of video players.

But the multiplatform UI is ... a bit clunky, especially compared to native Mac apps. No PiP mode, etc.

Looks like IINA is the solution. So far it’s played everything I’ve thrown at it, and the preferences seem to have the functionality I’ve come to depend on with VLC. As of this writing, 1.3.1 is current, and runs on 10.11 (El Capitan) and newer.




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