QuickTime is great, but it won’t play an AVI file out of the box or the lesser-known MKV for example. And with the introduction of MacOS Catalina we have had to say goodbye to our beloved QuickTime 7.
Download For MAC. As you saw, the download process for VLC is quite simple on Windows devices. It is similar to all macOS users as well. Here is our guide for you to follow. It will help you download VLC on mac in a few similarly simple steps. The first step is quite the same. You have to visit the VLC or VideoLan Org website from your Mac device. You can click the above button to download VLC media player. Portable VLC OS X is the VLC video stream and multimedia palyer packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive. KEYS Database Mac OS: put 'KEYDB.cfg' in /Library/Preferences/aacs/ (create it if it does not exist). What is reader on mac. AACS Dynamic Library Mac OS: right-click on VLC, choose 'Show Package Contents' and put the 'libaacs.dylib' file in. Run VLC and insert your Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray drive. VLC's Hidden Feature — Download Video from Internet. After installing VLC media player to your Windows or Mac, fire it up. Copy the Video URL from YouTube. Paste the Video URL into VLC and Start Playing. Get and Copy Codec Information of the YouTube.
QuickTime 7 offered the Pro version for a one time payment whichbasically upgraded the standard QuickTime player adding many usefulvideo editing features and import / export options, I’m still using itto this day! Just not on a Mac running Catalina.
If you try to open an .avi file or .mkv file among many others,QuickTime will give you any one of the following errors:
Or even worse QuickTime will give you a tantalising teaser that isgoing to open the video:
Shortly followed by the familiar, QuickTime can’t open
Now don’t get me wrong QuickTime has some great features includingscreen recording, but for opening video files you received from a longlost cousin in Eastern Europe it just doesn’t cut themustard! Enter a great & open source piece of software “VLC mediaplayer”. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To get started simply head to https://www.videolan.org/vlc/& download the VLC player. For Mac, it will download into your downloads folder:
Open the .dmg file (that’s a disk image in case you wanted to know, notstrictly a file).
And then drag the VLC icon to the Applications icon in the now openedwindow:
This will take a couple of seconds:
Navigate to your Applications folder and double click on the VLC icon:
You should see the message to tell you downloaded this from a webpage click Open:
For ease of access in the future go back to the folder which has your.avi or .mkv or other uncommon video format and either right click onthe file icon and choose Get info or click on the file to highlight itand choose File > get Info.
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The Info window will open and from the Open With drop down chose theVLC player:
Next on the same Info window after selecting the VLC player under “OpenWith” click the “Change All…” button:
This will associate all of the files of that particular format with theVLC media player so you don’t have to manually choose which app to openthem with each time.
Now instead of those pesky error messages the file will open in the VLCplayer:
The interface is very easy to use and shares many of the same featuresand buttons you find in most media players.
VLC player also has a media browser, which includes access to Internetradio stations, and allows you to organise your media. However the builtin Apps such as Music (iTunes), Photos already provide these servicesand they are better integrated with your other Apple products so it’sbetter to just use VLC player to open those files which QuickTIme cannotmanage.
There is a very well documented wiki on how to use VLC player and allof its great features over at VLC’s website.
And don’t forget although this is free to use you can still make adonation to the VLC organisation to help support the on-goingdevelopment for VLC.
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I hope this has cured another Mac headache for you, let us know whatyou think in the comments below.