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Which video/movie player for Lion??

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Skika

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Vlc- its great but crashes ALOT

Quicktime X- Doesn't play .mkv anymore (lol why)

MplayerX- weird stuttering going full screen

Plex- Doesn't support certain subtitles (many of which i watch), and mutes system audio after usage.


What do you use? What would u recommend ? I really watch a lot of movies and anime.
 
Skika said:
Vlc- its great but crashes ALOT

Quicktime X- Doesn't play .mkv anymore (lol why)

MplayerX- weird stuttering going full screen

Plex- Doesn't support certain subtitles (many of which i watch), and mutes system audio after usage.


What do you use? What would u recommend ? I really watch a lot of movies and anime.
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Quicktime X plays mkvs fine for me (need Perian though). It sucks with full-screen though since I have two monitors. When I have that problem I tend to use mplayerx, which does not stutter for me at all.

You could also look at movist, and subler for turning your MKVs into MP4s.
 
CyBeRino said:
Quicktime X plays mkvs fine for me (need Perian though). It sucks with full-screen though since I have two monitors. When I have that problem I tend to use mplayerx, which does not stutter for me at all.

You could also look at movist, and subler for turning your MKVs into MP4s.
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Well this really sucks. I can't play videos in 2011. Good stuff i tell you.

Excuse me while i hang myself.
 
I LOVE VLC. I don't install codecs anymore, as VLC has them all onboard. Plus, there's an iPod/Android remote program that works great.
 
Movist is great for my mkv's at 720p. Low CPU use. like 5-10% on my 2.8 Core2duo. That's without HW acceleration.
 
derbothaus said:
Movist is great for my mkv's at 720p. Low CPU use. like 5-10% on my 2.8 Core2duo. That's without HW acceleration.
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Crashes and crashes. I dunno man. Something is seriously messed up here i guess.
 
I've never had any problems with vlc. The only thing I think it should have is to allow you to have several windows open like quicktime(which I never use)
 
Skika said:
Crashes and crashes. I dunno man. Something is seriously messed up here i guess.
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Did you install perian and/or flip4mac? I've never had an issue with either of those 2 "extensions". You can continue to use QT X with them freshly installed.
 
I haven't had any problems with MPlayerX. You could try downloading MPlayer OS X Extended instead and see if that solves whatever issues you're having with it.
 
VLC, Quicktime etc work fine for me on lion, mplayer os x I rarely use but it hasn't crashed yet either, just make sure you have Perian and Flip4Mac installed :D
 
MplayerX. One stop video player. Plays anything I throw at it. It can even re-synch audio that's out of whack just like VLC does.

I did like VLC player but that annoying "playlist" window that always opened was useless and I got tired of closing it.
 
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I only have VLC installed and it works great. I watch a lot of movies too and I don't get any crashes :confused:

Movist is also a great alternative though. Never had a problem with it on SL. But to me, VLC is always the king. :)
 
Perian let's me watch mkv via QuickTime only if I preview the file. If I actually try to open it in QuickTime it will try loading the file for 10 mins before telling me it's not compatible. Does that happen for anyone else?
 
cibby said:
Perian let's me watch mkv via QuickTime only if I preview the file. If I actually try to open it in QuickTime it will try loading the file for 10 mins before telling me it's not compatible. Does that happen for anyone else?
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Yep, that is what happens to me too.
 
I use Perian but have brought Quicktime 7.6.4 onto Lion, as Quicktime 10 is rubbish, and it all works fine.

I do have VLC as well and haven't had any problems with it crashing although haven't used it much recently.
 
I use VLC, and Mplayer. Both of them are quite stable. Mplayer never ever crashes, VLC crashes very rarely. There's also Plex, which is a bit crowded for a player app, but it's also a quite stable one and supports hardware decoding on 9400M chipset macs.
 
BiggAW said:
I LOVE VLC. I don't install codecs anymore, as VLC has them all onboard. Plus, there's an iPod/Android remote program that works great.
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+1

Never had a problem with VLC, the remote app works pretty well. 9/10 for the remote app.
 
Skika said:
Crashes and crashes. I dunno man. Something is seriously messed up here i guess.
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If you're getting that many crashes with such different software, you should likely see about testing your memory.

MplayerX, Movist and VLC are based on different engines so unless you have a particularly bad mkv file, I don't think the players are doing something wrong.
 
cibby said:
Perian let's me watch mkv via QuickTime only if I preview the file. If I actually try to open it in QuickTime it will try loading the file for 10 mins before telling me it's not compatible. Does that happen for anyone else?
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Bazzybaz said:
I use Perian but have brought Quicktime 7.6.4 onto Lion, as Quicktime 10 is rubbish, and it all works fine.

I do have VLC as well and haven't had any problems with it crashing although haven't used it much recently.
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Yeah, QuickTime X will try to play it using the new AVFoundation libraries. You need to bring over QuickTime 7 from an older OS or download it. I remux all my anime to m4v, but still need to use QuickTime 7 or MPlayer to play it since QuickTime X still can't handle H.264 high profile at level 5 or higher. And only MPlayer can currently play 10-bit H.264 flawlessly on OS X. I was hoping AVFoundation and QuickTime X would be improved in this regard in Lion, but alas, it's still lacking.
 
mattpreston11 said:
+1

Never had a problem with VLC, the remote app works pretty well. 9/10 for the remote app.
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Yeah, it's amazing. Only problem I have is you have to re-install the server app for the remote every time VLC updates... I can never seem to find the thing, so I have to search through my email... yeah lol.
 
VLC only, no Quicktime needed.

As my title says I use VLC and only VLC. Admittedly the older versions were really buggy, but since Leopard, I haven't had a crash in like forever. I have a Powermac DC G5 via Leopard that runs all my HD movie content in Dolby Digital and Dts. It runs almost 24/7 on my daughters iMac and frequently gets used on my Macbook when I'm out and about.
 
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