Top 5 Video Player for macOS
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There are plenty of Mac video players such as VLC, QuickTime, XBMC.. But the top best movie players for Mac should excel others in speed, efficiency, compatible formats, quality while match perfectly with the Mac OS X (Mojave incl.). Based on those factors, we select top five best media player for Mac.
1 5KPlayer
Platform: Mac OS X (macOS Mojave), Windows (Windows 10)
Price: Free
Features: Play HD/UHD videos, DVDs, music; Stream audio video; download online videos ( 1000+ sites)
Users Rating: ★★★★★
5KPlayer may be new to many users, but it still gets the gold medal for video playback on Mac (or Windows). As a free HD video player on Mac (MacBook/MacBook Air/MacBook Pro/iMac/5K Retina iMac), it works seamlessly with almost all the formats you'll need, including videos in MKV, WMV, FLV, AVI, MTS, MP4 etc and even DVD or music in MP3 AAC APE FLAC, with HD 720p/1080p UHD 4K/5K in high quality. A highlight of this best Mac media player is that it features AirPlay receiver/sender to help users stream movies videos from iOS devices or to Apple TVs.
Pros
1.Wide-range of supported formats can be played.
2.HD 720p/1080p/UHD 2160p 4k/5k/360 degree video playback on Mac supported.
3.High quality and neat UI of the best video movie player for Mac is well received.
4.Videos playback, download (1000+ sites supported) and airplay supported.
Cons
1.Blu-ray videos are not supported.
2.The language options of the Mac media player are rather limited.
The new HEVC/H.265 codec offers better image quality than the H.264 videos, but requires only half about the storage space. However, this new code takes a lot of computational horsepower for many media players to smoothly play these files and some media players on the computer simply do not play the normal H.265 video files recorded with cameras such as Samsung NX1 or Samsung NX500.
H.265/HEVC codec playback problems on VLC
VLC Media Player for Mac is a powerful and efficient app for playing any kinds of media in multiple formats right onto macOS Sierra. On February 27, 2015, VLC Media Player version was released with robust support of HEVC playback. However, according to test from image source, VLC can't play the H.265 files for more than a few seconds without glitching and artifacting. Therefore, you still need to transcode the H.265 HEVC files to VLC playable formats listed below:
Container formats: 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, Matroska, QuickTime File Format, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2, AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM, DVD-Video
Video formats: Cabinet vision software price. H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/MPEG HEVC, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, Sorenson, Theora, VC-1, VP5, VP6, VP8, VP9, DNxHD, Prores and some WMV.
For smooth and better video quality of H.265 files playback on VLC media player, you'd better transcode H.265/HEVC to the more compatible but less-compressed H.264 video. Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac(support for El Capitan) will offer your great help to convert H.265/HEVC to VLC Media Player smooth playback codec - H.264.
Before start conversion, there are one problem you still need to solve. If the H.265/HEVC files you are going to play with VLC have a 4K resolution, you're suggested to compress 4K to 1080p. The reason is that although H.264 can handle 4K videos, however, it can't keep file size low simultaneously. Big file size will require more computer lower and more bandwidth and therefore will also results playback errors. You can downscale 4K files to 1080p with our 'Profile Settings' function on the software.
How to Convert and Play H.265/HEVC files with VLC Media Player macOS Sierra
Step 1: Load H.265 HEVC files to the program.
Launch the software on your macOS Sierra computer, click the 'Load files' button or 'Add video' button to add source H.265/HEVC files.
Step 2: Choose VLC playable output format.
For great video quality and smoothly playback considerations, you can select the H.264 as output format from 'Format > HD Video > H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)'.
Step 3: Downscale 4K H.265 to 1080p H.264.
Open 'Profile Settings' window, from Size(pix) drop-down list, select '1920x1080' as the resolution for output file.
Step 4: Begin conversion.
Start H.265/HEVC to VLC Mac conversion by clicking the right-bottom convert button.
When the conversion is finished, hit the 'Open' icon on the bottom of the main interface will pop up the folder with converted files. Now, feel pleasure to play H.265 HEVC files with VLC Media Player on your Mac computer. No audio when playing files with VLC, find solutions in this article: VLC Media Player No Sound? Solved!
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