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VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
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MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
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- Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
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What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File
Mostly that VLC has had noticeable issues with displaying some kinds of subtitles made with Advanced SubStation (especially ones taking up much of the frame, or that pan/zoom), which MPV-based players handle better.
If you want a MPV-based player GUI on macOS, https://github.com/iina/iina is quite good.
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Free software scares normal people
Abstraction needs to happen on a different layer. Because your power users are already dealing with complicated stuff and you don't want to make their lives even harder.
I know about 10 people in real life that uses Handbrake. And 10 of them use it to rip Blu-ray discs and store media files on their NAS. It will piss them off if you hide all the codec settings and replace the main screen with a "convert to Facebook compatible video".
Instead, do it like how iina[1] packages mpv[2].
1. https://github.com/iina/iina
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We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application
Why don't the developer do the shim themselves? You can always have a core and shell out the UI to the platform being used. One example is Celluloid [0] (GTK) and IINA [1], both use mpv as their backend. Why not have something like libslack, libspotify (a real one), or libdiscord, then have a more appropriate frontend to meet the users where they are.
[0]: https://celluloid-player.github.io/
[1]: https://iina.io/
- IINA – modern video player for macOS
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8 Must-Have Software for Programmers on Mac
2. Video Player: IINA
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Recommended Software for Mac that You cannot Miss
IINA is free and open-source, available for download from the official website.
- IINA: The modern video player for macOS
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mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
Mac users can get a very nice front end to mpv with https://iina.io
Bonus trivia: Plex Media Player uses mpv as the video player
- ReAMP, a Winamp Remake in Swift
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iina/iina is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of iina is Swift.
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