#Vlc media player for mac big sur update

If the looping feature was left in, this update would have gotten a full five stars from me, not four. IGNORE AFTER THIS POINT NOT CORRECT: -I used the video looping feature often, both on single videos and playlists, so the choice to remove such a useful feature that has been in this app for as long as I've had it is disappointing. May this app remain as fine or better for many years to come. Shame that it got somewhat 'buried' so me and at least one other reviewer I saw thought it was removed and shot off inaccurate reviews.Īnyway, here is your full, very well deserved, five stars. Presumably this is because there is more room to fit buttons in the bottom of the screen there than in vertical orientation. After installing, you may find that some mentioned features are not available. It’s a 12.6 GB download, so be prepared to wait for some update time. We find that it’s a big improvement on the Catalina update.

#Vlc media player for mac big sur for free

More fiddling with the app revealed that the button for looping only appears in the video controls when the player is in horizontal orientation, not vertical. This OS update is available for free for your Mac. For instance, If I want swiping up to jump forward 1 min instead of increasing volumeĮDIT: It actually still has looping. Instead of just turning them on and off, be able to assign what gestures do.

it would be nice to have more configurable playback controls with gestures. It feels like a good use-case to cache what was watched so that you can rewatch one quickly if you wanted by pressing back once or multiples times to go back multiple videos. when playing media back in shuffle mode, pressing back used to (a few versions ago) take you to the last video you watched but it now just goes to the video before it when sorted by file name.

#Vlc media player for mac big sur password

Feels like password protect is leaving a small loophole in its privacy. If you try open open up the app again, password is requested but audio content is still playing. For example minimizing the app locks it, but content keeps playing in the background. The VLC player can play many video file formats, including AVI and MPG files. The free version is identical to the paid version except for two things: 1) The free version. For iPhone iPad Awarded Gizmodos Essential iPhone App three years running. if you have password lock on for opening VLC, it feels like content should pause or stop playing if it’s locked. Although an iPad comes with built-in apps that allow users to view video. Powerful and Beautiful VLC Remote® lets you remotely control your VLC Media Player on your Mac or PC. It used to take between 10-20seconds to start a video file on a network drive and scrubbing/skipping forward or backward had noticeable latency - now that’s all gone, everything is near instantaneous! Scrubbing is amazing to find a specific point in a video quickly! Great update and work! Awesome new interface, but best is the speed improvements while playing video from accessing the network.