Today, we will also a major new version of VLC for Mac OS X. For cross-platform changes, please have a look at the release notes and our press release.
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Ever since upgrading to OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro 13', VLC (2.1.5) will not play videos of any file type and often crashes when trying to do so. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing changed. Browser For Mac Os X free download - Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard, R for Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 Supplemental Update, and many more programs. VLC Media Player, which is known for its powerful compatibility to play nearly all kinds of video types, can be regarded as a must-have video application for Mac OS X, especially on Yosemite. It works better than QuickTime because it doesn’t come with any of the restriction.
What’s new in VLC for Mac?
- Support for OS X Yosemite
- Completely re-written web plugin for Chrome, Safari and Firefox is back!
Improved fullscreen behavior - Continue playback where you left off
- Improved playlist adding a file size column and an option to increase the font size
- In addition to iTunes, Spotify can be paused on playback start
- New encryption and decryption modules for SSL based on OS X’s SecureTransport library for FTP and HTTP connections. This greatly improves speed and security.
- A lot of improvements in VLCKit for use in third party applications, notably
- Switched the code base to ARC and added support for Swift projects
- Support for HLS and HTTPS playback on iOS
- Improved thumbnailing
- Various new APIs for playlist handling, the equalizer, thumbnailing and meta data handling
We are excited about this major update of VLC for Mac and hope that you’ll like it as much as we do.
Summary: Wonder how to get your VLC Media Player to play MKV on Yosemite? Read on to find the solutions we shared below.In general, you may get some MKV files and want to enjoy them on a computer. So, how can we play a VLC on Mac Yosemite if there’s a VLC Media Player installed? Can VLC support MKV on Yosemite directly? According some other users and my own experience, it’s not smooth and the VLC always turns to crash. Well, there is a workaround for you. Learn in detail.
Owning to the update of Mac OS, VLC media player is not able to work perfectly on Yosemite until now. What’s more, MKV (matroska) is a general use container, and as such the .mkv files can contain many tracks with different audio and video compression formats, which can cause problems during playback. Even if VLC can run on Yosemite, we’ve sometimes found that MKV can’t be played in VLC due to the codec issues.
Since you cannot play MKV file using VLC on Yosemite, there's really not much you can do except maybe converting MKV to another format. Here comes with Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, which enables you to convert MKV to a friendly video for VLC for playback effortlessly on Mac OS X Yosemite. Constantly updated to fit with the latest technology, this video converting software is fully compatible with Mac's latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite and can convert any video MKV, AVI, FLV, MPG, MTS, MKV, etc up to 30X faster and without quality loss.
Tutorial: Convert MKV for playback in VLC on Yosemite Mac 10.10
Vlc Player For Mac Os X Yosemite
Step 1. Load MKV movies
Run this software and then import your MKV files onto the interface by convenient drag-and-drop feature. You can add several videos for converting at one time as this Mac video converter supports batch conversion.
Step 2. Set output format
Click on 'Format' bar to select output format. Here you can choose to encode MKV to .mov, .mp4 for playing with VLC on Mac OS X Yosemite. These formats are also supported well by QuickTime and iTunes in Yosemite.
P.S. This Video Converter for Yosemite also helps you to convert videos to mobile devices supported formats, such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, Samsung Galaxy, etc.
Step 3. Start converting MKV on Yosemite
In the end, you just need to click the 'Convert' button start the conversion. When the converting process ends, you can open output folder to check and play converted MKV videos in VLC as well as QuickTime player, iTunes on your Mac Yosemite with the best quality. Enjoy.
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