IINA vs VLC

[MacBH928]

So for years I have been grateful for the guys behind VLC which offer a reliable FOSS media player on all platforms on earth that works amazingly well. Recently I have learned of a new app built specifically for the MacOS platform called IINA. Its based on MPV player.

Is there any advantage here for one over the other, or does it not matter? Currently the only advantage for IINA I found is that it is able to open multiple instances(more than 1 video window) which I don't know how to do on VLC.

Any one has deeper understanding of this?

 

[yurc]

I am use both, but I set IINA as default because it was more consistent look with the rest Apple UI, quicktime feels.

IINA is basically MPV with nice Apple interface, you can set MPV parameter within IINA too.

 

[theblueberru]

I only use IINA because in my opinion it is much better in terms of memory usage and interface. It just looks better and uses up less of my resources.

 

[MacBH928]

I am use both, but I set IINA as default because it was more consistent look with the rest Apple UI, quicktime feels.

IINA is basically MPV with nice Apple interface, you can set MPV parameter within IINA too.

but whats special about MPV? does it run movies any better than VLC? Also its interesting since VLC is open source why IINA developer decided to go with MPV and not VLC.

 

[Kylo83]

Vlc has been updated for M1 support

 

[Patbee]

Does anyone know how to stop IINA displaying the metadata for the video playing (in particular any drone footage I play with it has all the metadata displayed across the video and I can't figure out how to turn it off). The same metadata doesn't display on VLC or Quicktime, so it must be player-specific but I can't see how to turn it off. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks

 

[bogdanw]

Does anyone know how to stop IINA displaying the metadata for the video playing (in particular any drone footage I play with it has all the metadata displayed across the video and I can't figure out how to turn it off). The same metadata doesn't display on VLC or Quicktime, so it must be player-specific but I can't see how to turn it off. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks

I've never seen such metadata and the only option I can think of is to disable OSD in settings UI.

 

[Patbee]

Thanks for the reply. You'd have thought that turning off OSD would do it, but no. Any footage shot on DJI Mini 2 displays with all the metadata displayed in large text across the footage. Tried turning off/on everything in the Prefs, to no avail. Also tried both on M1 and Intel Mac with the same result. Must be a glitch somewhere.

 

[bogdanw]

Could you provide a 5 seconds sample of such footage?

 

[Patbee]

Here's a screen shot.

 

[bogdanw]

They look like subtitles.

 

[Patbee]

They look like subtitles.

Yes, but they're not. It's the metadata from the drone, and it doesn't show on FCP, Lumafusion, Quicktime, VLC or anything else I've tried the files on. And even if it was somehow confusing metadata with subs, I've turned off Automatically detect subs in the Prefs. Very odd. Back to VLC for me, I think, regretfully. Otherwise IINA looks very good.

 

[bogdanw]

These samples don’t show any metadata in IINA
https://dronexl.co/2022/05/10/dji-mini-3-pro-first-impressions/
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ACS65a72J0Fayyfr-qYirTqIlQIzhgzR

IINA is based on mpv and supports additional mpv configuration options https://mpv.io/manual/master/