![]() If I ever need to make recommendations for someone on a lower power machine I'll definitely keep Movist in mind. It's a good point though that desired features can vary dramatically. As I said, missing stuff like 10-bit video already makes Movist worthless to me, though presumably they'll add it in the future. So CPU usage hasn't even registered as an issue, which leaves quality and feature support. ![]() All my machines are significantly more powerful then an MBA (well, you don't say which one you're running or what CPU), and I have never had any issues playing anything whatsoever. I gave MplayerX a try but it stutters on MBA and it uses more CPU than any other player. MplayerX has one of the most annoying issues/bugs ever: quite often and at random intervals it would need to generate "font caches" and it you have a lot of fonts, go make yourself a coffee because MplayerX will be chugging along and generating caches for a while. PS: You can also find MplayerX in MAS (free) but that version has the same issues.Įdit: I forgot to mention. Even after a complete reinstall, it would become pixelated and frames of an Xvid (SD resolution) would get dropped. After asking on VLC forums, I was told by the main developer to remove preference file. Something's seriously wrong VLC buffering. I believe that VLC is still the king of low CPU utilization but "frame skipping" and the resulting pixelation is unavoidable even on my 2011 MBP with an SSD. It's good to have options though, so nice to know about for the future. Of course if if it works for you great, but I also don't see any hint that it supports 10-bit video either, which means it's already obsolete. Looks like some decent stuff, but honestly not seeing much attraction over MplayerX, which is also a beautiful and well done program. I just reassigned all of the file associations away from VLC. And the picture almost always becomes randomly pixelated when playing certain videos. ![]() Even though VLC has a separate controls widget, you still can't have multiple videos open. it was a ton of work.Īfter all these years, why VLC can't add just some of these features is beyond me. Whoever wrote it deserves kudos and I see why he decided to charge for it. it's definitely the best video player on a Mac. Window chrome disappears when you move the mouse away, it shows you the time code when you hover the mouse over the timeline, gestures for volume work, the picture doesn't stutter and become pixelated at random intervals (like in VLC), you can have multiple videos open and playing at the same time (unlike VLC), after you quit the app it reloads the videos and restores positions (you can disable it too), it's skinnable and comes with few skins (including QTX skin), plays WMVs perfectly and you don't have to wait for the whole file to load before you can seek, arrow keys ffwd/rev, you can select how you want full-screen to behave (SL or Lion FS behavior), H264 video is hardware accelerated, you can pick renderers (ffmpeg, quicktime etc), and on and on. Well, that's because he was working on a new version! It also was not updated for a very long time and the developer released only one update in 3-4 years. I used to be a fan of older, open source, player: but with Lion's release, it was not as reliable and there were sound issues so I used VLC for almost all media playback on a Mac. new Movist is excellent and without a doubt the best video player on a Mac and definitely worth $5. I found out about new Movist few days ago but didn't buy it up right away because it's now a paid app ($4.99).
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