Video player featuring a modern design and streamlined functionalities that is based on the open source mpv project to deliver high quality output
Designed for modern macOS (10.10+), aims to offer the best user experience All the features you need for videos, audios, subtitles, playlist, chapters and so on Force Touch, Picture-in-picture and (advanced) Touch Bar support.
What's new in IINA 1.2.0:
- Now IINA is shipped with a universal binary that run natively on both Intel and M1-based Macs.
- Apart from the universal binary, there is nothing changed from v1.1.2. Therefore, if you are using an Intel-based Mac, you may skip this update safely until we have prepared separate builds for different architectures.
- Video player featuring a modern design and streamlined functionalities that is based on the open source mpv project to deliver high quality output What's new in IINA 1.2.0: Now IINA is shipped with a universal binary that run natively on both Intel and M1-based Macs.
- Added an option to accept first mouse or not; Catalan language support Added a remove button in the playlist to remove individual playlist items Music mode now supports mouse scroll wheel controls; Fixed the screenshot format cannot be selected.
- Window size and On Screen Controller. The auto layout system of the On Screen Controller was improved hugely. Starting from this version, you are able to resize the video window to a very small size, while preventing the on screen controller from being cut off. You are also able to customize buttons in the On Screen Controller.
- IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to the user interface. Powered by the open source media player mpv, IINA can play almost every media file you have. With the support of youtube-dl and our browser extensions, you can also play a variety of online streams in IINA via one click.
IINA is a video player based on the MPV open source project that aims to provide a modern space for watching videos, managing playlists, dealing with the media content or loading subtitles to your movies.
Media player that makes the most out of the available space without compromising on functionality
Right off the bat, you need to use the IINA file menu to direct the app to the media you want to play: you get to load local files or provide the video URL. The app can work with all the popular media formats.
Vlc player mac dvd rippen. Note that IINA will detect all the supported videos from a user selected folder and will automatically add them to the playlist panel. What’s more, IINA also enables you to navigate through chapters.
Worth mentioning is that IINA does not waste any space for menus: all the control bars hide automatically, and the entire app window is reserved for rendering the video. Naturally, you get to easily resize the IINA window, or even switch to fullscreen mode.
Get extensive control over the video and audio content and quickly load subtitles
IINA allows you to manage the media playlists or tweak the video, audio and subtitle rendering via unobtrusive menus, but the frequently used tools also come with predefined hotkeys.
The video player includes most function one would expect from a full featured media rendering application. What’s more, you can use filter strings in MPV format to further process both the video and the audio content.
Further customization options are included in the IINA’s Preferences window where you can quickly change the interface theme, tweak the default behavior and user interface, decide if you want to load the subtitles automatically, configure new keybindings, and so on.
Feature packed player that comes with a beautiful design and Touch Bar support
The IINA project is still under development, but the player manages to deliver a beautiful space where you get to render high-quality media without cluttering your desktop.
Within the IINA’s user interface you get to work with playlists, adjust details related to the video or audio rendering, load and sync subtitles, and so on.
Kmsauto net 2016 windows 10 & office 2016 activator password. The IINA player also comes with Touch Bar support so that you can navigate the playback slider bar with ease from the top of your keyboard.
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Unless you follow all the links in our Watchlist items, you may have missed this ominous message in Apple’s release notes for Final Cut Pro 10.4.6 (see “Final Cut Pro X 10.4.6, Compressor 4.4.4, and Motion 5.4.3,” 22 March 2019):
Detects media files that may be incompatible with future versions of macOS after Mojave and converts them to a compatible format.
That’s right, Apple is dropping support for some media formats in the next major release of macOS because the old QuickTime 7 framework isn’t 64-bit friendly. Here are some of the more common ones that were previously supported by third-party software relying on the QuickTime 7 framework:
- 3ivx MPEG-4
- Cinepak
- DivX
- Flash Video
- Perian collection of codecs (such as Microsoft MPEG-4, DivX, 3ivx, VP6, and VP3)
- RealVideo
- Windows Media Video 7, 8, 9
- Xiph.org’s Theora Video
Thankfully, the industry has now largely settled on H.264 and H.265. But if you’re used to dealing with transcoding video (or let’s be honest, downloading it from shadowy sources), you’re probably wincing right now. And even if you aren’t, you may very well have old videos in obscure formats, as might have happened with video taken with a flip phone.
There are many open-source video players, the most popular being VLC, but there’s one that’s both better and Mac-exclusive: IINA. It’s free, it’s open-source, it’s built for the Mac (written in Swift even!), and it hit 1.0 at the end of 2018 (I’m reviewing version 1.03). What’s not to love?
Building on MPlayer, mpv, and FFmpeg
In the 2000s, MPlayer (not to be confused with the media player for Windows or the gaming service from the late 1990s—yes, I’ve used all three) was the gold standard for video playback in the open-source world. That project has mostly been abandoned and superseded by mpv, a Unix command-line video player that offers unmatched performance and extensibility.
What does this have to do with IINA? Well, mpv is the engine that drives IINA. If you fancy yourself a Terminal wiz, you can easily install mpv on your Mac any number of ways, with my favorite being Homebrew. You’ll have to run mpv from Terminal, which offers some advantages, but for most of us, those don’t outweigh the convenience of a graphical interface. Thankfully, the installation of IINA doesn’t require anything fancy; just open the disk image and drag the app to your Applications folder.
Since mpv is based on the free software project FFmpeg, it supports all the file formats and codecs that FFmpeg can handle, which is just about everything you can imagine, including the formats Apple is discarding.
The astute among you will point out that VLC is also based on FFmpeg, so why bother switching? Well, they’re both free, so it’s not an either/or situation, but I’ll let you see what both look like in action. IINA is on the left, VLC on the right:
While VLC has to provide a cross-platform interface for the Mac, Windows, Linux, and even OS/2, IINA is made solely for the Mac, so as a Mac user, you’ll be immediately familiar with its conventions. For instance, you’ll probably recognize the Apple picture-in-picture icon, and clicking the gear icon displays all the key video settings in one place.
Favorite IINA Features
I’m sure if I compared IINA and VLC’s features, VLC would win. It has been in development for many years, while IINA just hit 1.0. But IINA offers all the essentials and then some, and most importantly, Mac users will have no trouble finding them. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by VLC, launching IINA is a breath of fresh air.
But I don’t want to give the impression that IINA is lacking in features. It still offers more than you’ll likely ever need. Here are three of my favorites.
Picture-in-Picture
Since IINA is made for the Mac, it supports the native macOS picture-in-picture feature, introduced in 10.12 Sierra. Just click the picture-in-picture icon to shrink the video into a miniature window that anchors to one of the four corners of the screen and stays on top. You could also choose Video > Float on Top if you just want to keep the video on top, but the system picture-in-picture feature works well for watching a video while you’re working.
YouTube Player
Another neat feature of IINA is that it can play YouTube videos. Copy a YouTube URL and choose File > Open URL in New Window and paste the URL. (VLC can do this as well.)
What’s the upside of playing YouTube videos in IINA instead of the browser? For starters, it makes it easy to play videos picture-in-picture. And while it’s difficult to resize a YouTube video within a browser window, IINA makes it as easy as resizing a window. And of course, IINA lets you control YouTube videos with your media keys.
Sure, there are ways to do all of that inside a browser, but IINA is an all-in-one solution.
Music Mode
It seems like everyone streams their music these days, but many of us still have gigabytes of MP3 and AAC audio files. Unfortunately, there aren’t many simple music players for the Mac—iTunes has largely crowded them out, even though it has been a hot mess for years.
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Most video players can also play audio, but it’s usually clumsy. The IINA developers did something clever and implemented Music Mode. You can invoke it by choosing Video > Music Mode, but it also activates automatically if you open a music file or a folder containing music files.
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What’s different about Music Mode? The display window shrinks down to show just the album art and playback controls. You can optionally hide the art and show the playlist if you wish. It’s a nice, lightweight music player if you’re fed up with the bloat of iTunes.
Those are just a few of the things I appreciate about IINA.
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In any case, I recommend keeping both VLC and IINA on your Mac for when you encounter videos in obscure formats, especially now that Apple will be dropping support for many of them.