Video player Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Miro 4 bumps up media management & Android sync

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 24th, 2011)

The Mac media management application formerly known as Democracy Player has been around for a good while; since 2007, it's been called Miro and has offered solid podcatching, BitTorrent and video viewing features in a convenient open-source application. The current version of the app, 4.0.1, ...

Download, play, and convert most video formats with Miro

by Sam Abuelsamid (Oct 25th, 2010)

Apple's built-in QuickTime video player is fine if all you ever want to watch are files in the limited number of formats that it supports. However, if you need to playback files that are encoded in Xvid, DivX, WebM, or even the dreaded FLV, you'll need something with a bit more capability. VLC is ...

VLC coming to the iPad

by Chris Rawson (Sep 9th, 2010)

VLC, the play-anything video player for the Mac, may soon be available as an iPad app. App maker Applidium has spent months porting the open source player into an iPad app and has submitted it to the App Store. Now they're just waiting for Apple to approve it; if approved, the app will be available ...

Google Video player for Mac

by Scott McNulty (Jun 6th, 2006)

Lookie here, Google has released Google Video player, a stand alone application that plays, you guessed it, videos from Google Video. Features include: Browse videos via thumbnails skip anywhere in the video full screen mode Thanks, shrimp. ...

DivX Player Beta 2 is available

by Dave Caolo (Mar 16th, 2006)

DivX Player is a media player for the Mac, and Beta 2 features a slew of changes, including: A new decode-only DivX codec which is a Universal Binary The ability to drag-n-drop your movies onto the player icon (yay!) An option to dim the player window along with the Desktop Dimmer ...