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Availebla

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Recently, I ran into some problems with MplayerX and it has been really frustrating. Before when I opened a video file for playback it would fill the edges of the screen automatically but recently (and maybe after updating to High Sierra) the video plays in its own little black window and toggling fill-screen does fix the problem but only for *some* video files. In addition, other videos have their embedded subtitles cut off after fillscreen has been toggled. Sometimes original size toggles it to fill the screen and sometimes it causes it to shrink even further. Just to clarify almost all of my videos are now playing with black bars on all four corners of the video. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling MplayerX several times taking extra care to clear all its files from ~Library and /Library including Preferences, Caches and a bunch of other locations but the problem persists even after fresh installs. I have never had a problem with MplayerX and I really am at a loss on what to do at this point. Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated. A brief description of my laptop is below.


MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB
 
Yes. I removed MplayerX after the warning from my Antivirus App Avast. I'm not joking.
5kplayer is malware free.
 
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Yes. I removed MplayerX after the warning from my Antivirus App Avast. I'm not joking.
5kplayer is malware free.

Oh man, and I’ve had that installed for a couple of years now. I used FindAnyFile and gave it the boot.

Next time VLC is not cooperating I’ll try 5kplayer.

Edit: On second thought, the 5kplayer website did not make me feel very comfortable. Let’s hope VLC will keep behaving.
 
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