VideoLAN Movie Creator is a video editing application based on libVLC, the core engine and interface that forms the basis of the popular VLC media player. The latter is praised for its simplicity and versatility, as it can handle pretty much every available format. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor or an Apple Silicon chip. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

• Download VLC Media Player for Mac - Multi-platform multimedia player that helps its users play, convert and stream most popular video and formats via a simple and intuitive user interface.
• When using ios version of VLC can access a pre mac osx 10.15 mac without issue. Have tried turning on/off the extra 'options' in file sharing for smb on mac next to account name that has always been required for this kind of ios to mac vlc local network sharing.

Welcome!

Here you can download experimental versions of VLC that are daily generated from the VLC code that is currently in development.
Several issues that existed in previous versions of VLC might be fixed here, but since this version of VLC is not yet finished, you should expect other problems and issues.

Download nightly builds

Select your operating system to download VLC binaries:

• The packages for the following operating systems
  are not automatically built every night:

Source-code snapshots

The tarballs service is discontinued, please use Git to get the latest source code.

Ubuntu PPA

The nightly builds for Ubuntu are available on Launchpad from the VideoLAN team's master-daily PPA. Once you have activated the correct repository, you can simply update the VLC (vlc) package.

Those repositories contain a vlc-dbg package. We recommend you install it so you can produce useful backtraces if you need to report a bug.

VLC SVN Snapshots for openSUSE

For openSUSE 11.4, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2 and Tumbleweed we offer also RPMs from SVN snapshots. The packages are updated approximatively once per week.

In order to test it, follow the usual instructions to install VLC as described on www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html, but replace the packagename vlc with vlc-beta. You can only install one version, so either vlc OR vlc-beta. They conflict each other.

VLC Git Ebuild for Gentoo

Alexis Ballier maintains Ebuild for the master (vlc-9999.ebuild) Git branch in the Portage tree.

As it is a live ebuild it comes without any keyword so you'll have to put a '**' entry for it in package.keywords in order to be able to install it and, when appropriate, an entry in package.unmask .

Frequently Asked Questions

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• 3Latest developments
  • 3.2Command line

Graphical Interface

Many people who want to use VLC media player on macOS will be intending to use the standard graphical interface that is provided by VLC. The standard interface consists of the eight menus in the menu bar and the 'VLC - Controller' window that opens up by default. This section outlines what VLC can do for you (at V0.8.6a current active is V3.0.12) and will be completed as I check the use of menu options.

The ten menu bar options are listed below along with the main interesting capabilities under each menu item:

• VLC which allows you to check for an updated application, to access the preferences, and to add an interface.
• File which allows you to open a media file, or an associated file (such as subtitles). It also has a wizard to allow the streaming of video, or the capturing of a streamed video to a file.
• Edit which does nothing VLC-specific.
• View which allows you to hide or show various options like previous/next buttons, shuffle and repeat, audio effects, sidebar, as well as customize what you see in 'playlist table columns'.
• Playback allows you do do all the things you might expect from a video player; some of these features are duplicated graphically in the 'Controller' window.
• Audio allows you to control the audio level, as well as the output device and the audio track to use from the input.
• Video allows you to control the video display on your screen, as well as which device to display on, and which video source to show in that display.
• Subtitles allows you to add subtitle files to your video, as well as change the appearance of subtitle text for your video.
• Window allows you to display seven helper windows that will display information about VLC's activity, and control more detail of that activity.
• Help gives access to the help that came with the installation, the help info on the VideoLAN site, and access to interaction mechanisms with the VLC developers.

In general, many users find that they can get what they want from VLC 'straight out of the box', and may only want more advanced controls after becoming familiar with the regular interface.

Keyboard Shortcuts

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You can find most of the keyboard shortcuts by taking a look at the menus. Additional hotkeys are defined in the section 'Hotkeys' of your VLC preferences.

Some handy key combos are:

• Spacebar – pause/unpause the video
• ⌘ + F – toggle fullscreen (Escape will also exit fullscreen)
• ⌘ + Shift + left/right arrow keys – jump the video back/forward about a minute
• ⌘ + Ctrl + left/right arrow keys – jump the video back/forward about ten seconds
• When watching a DVD, and the video window is the front-most window, arrow keys and the enter key will allow you to navigate the DVD menus
• F key – Decrease Audio Delay in milliseconds
• G key – Increase Audio Delay in milliseconds
• H key – Decrease Subtitle Delay
• J key – Increase Subtitle Delay

Latest developments

Streaming Wizard

A streaming wizard has been available since the VLC media player 0.8.4 release. This is available under the 'File' menu.

Command line

You can run VLC on macOS using a terminal application (for example Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities) with the following command:

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On most Bourne-like shells, you can set an alias to just vlc with the following command:

It can be helpful to add this command to your shell setup file.

This option can also be activated from the 'VLC' menu.

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Command line examples

~ will expand to /Users/<username>

Following command does this: Transform video-filter (flip vertically), transcode (save) to file.

-I rc is so that it doesn't open the GUI, but stays on the command line version--vout-filter defines the filter to use--transform-type defines the attributes of the transform filter/Movie.mov is the file to convert--sout= is the stream output chain/output.mp4 is the output file name

Another Example

I had a heck of a time getting this to work the way I wanted it. I kept attempting a command-line execution of VLC to only get the following response (not what I wanted):

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What I wasn't doing apparently was specifying the location of the source movie.

Eventually I ran this:

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HINT:
This would be the same as if you didn't have an alias for vlc that pointed to the actual Applications executable:

Hopefully, I'll add to this post when the transcoding finishes and I see my results (I have no idea if I've got the correct options for vp8/vorbis webm-container transcoding).....

No Dock

In previous versions you can replace the VLC at the end of the path with clivlc to suppress the launch of any Mac-like interface (VLC wouldn't even appear in the Dock then) or if transcoding from the command-line crashed with a Bus error.

This does not work anymore (see Forum thread #58378)

As given by Command-line interface#macOS, specify the option -I followed by the interface you want to add e.g. VLC -Idummy.

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See the FAQ on macOS only issues or the Common Problems pages.