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Are there any good alternatives to QuickTime for macOS with tabs / a tabbed UI?

Oneechan69

Oneechan69

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If I open another video in VLC when one is loaded, it will be replaced, while IINA will open it in a 2nd window. I did some googling and it looks like neither of them support tabs.
 
daabido said:
What is your use case for tabs?
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Is that really a question? I want to be able to open multiple videos and easily switch between them using tabs, instead of using multiple copies of VLC, or having multiple windows open with IINA. QuickTime has tabs but doesn't support certain container formats like mkv and webm, while both VLC and IINA do.
 
One surprising option would be Firefox. You can drop videos into tabbed windows and it will play them. You can even play videos in different tabs simultaneously if you like.
 
Tagbert said:
One surprising option would be Firefox. You can drop videos into tabbed windows and it will play them. You can even play videos in different tabs simultaneously if you like.
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I could, though it would be ideal to have fine-grain control over videos like I can on VLC and IINA.
 
Tagbert said:
What do you mean by fine-grain?
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I meant all the various feature VLC and IINA have. Also, I just quickly tried opening an old Japanese show with subs on Firefox and it couldn't open, while it can open with either of those two players.
 
Oneechan69 said:
I meant all the various feature VLC and IINA have. Also, I just quickly tried opening an old Japanese show with subs on Firefox and it couldn't open, while it can open with either of those two players.
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Not sure which things you are looking for but certainly Firefox is not a dedicated video play. It just happens to open many (but not all) videos as a result of being a web browser. I don’t know of any other players that meet your specific requirements.
 
Tagbert said:
Not sure which things you are looking for but certainly Firefox is not a dedicated video play. It just happens to open many (but not all) videos as a result of being a web browser. I don’t know of any other players that meet your specific requirements.
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VLC and IINA are both solid video players, its just that neither have tab support.
 
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Curious - doesn't VLC do playlists? Could you load all your videos there and switch between them by clicking on them in the playlist?
 
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