IINA is a feature-rich utility that enables you to watch your favorite movies and play your music files from one place. This program is compatible with a wide variety of media formats, enables you to create and save playlists, and gives you access to various playback options.
It comes as an alternative to using Mac's QuickTime for playing videos on your computer. Unlike Apple's player, this tool supports much more video formats and provides you with a great experience, without dealing with constant frame freezes. In addition, you can attach subtitles to your movies and customize the playback settings according to your needs.
You can also use this utility to listen to your favorite music. Import the audio files you wish to play and save the resulting playlist for later.
Another useful advantage is the fact that you can use various shortcut keys to immediately complete tasks in IINA. They are listed in Preferences -> Key Bindings and can be altered if needed.
My only problem with this program is that you need to update if you want to get access to its latest version. However, completing this task won't take too long, a maximum of 2 minutes.
To conclude, IINA proves to be a reliable solution for playing videos and songs on your Mac. It's very simple to handle, brings you many useful features, and is free.
v0.0 [Jan 14, 2017]
- New: Thumbnail preview - IINA will show the thumbnail for time when you hover the progress slider.
- New: It's available for Touch Bar too! Just like QuickTime's. The thumbnails will be cached for performance, and you can clear them in Preferences. This feature can also be turned off completely.
- Multiple window support: Now IINA will open videos in new windows by default. Pressing Option (⌥) when using Open (⌘O) or Open URL (⇧⌘O) to open videos in current window.
- Drag-and-drop of playlist items across windows.
- Welcome window: added a welcome window at launch to avoid confusing new users. If you don't like it, you can switch back to "show open panel" or "do nothing" in Preferences easily. You can also make it default to open new videos in current window in Preferences.
- Fixed subtitle encoding not working.
- Fixed distorted album cover when playing music.
- Fixed minimized window showing up when auto playing next media.
- Fixed some logic when auto adding files into playlist.
- Fixed some crashes and improved stability.
- Hardware decoding doesn't work properly with video filters (flip, crop, etc). Now IINA will give you possible suggestions when you try to apply a video filter.
- Improved the animation when entering full screen.
- Made the open panel being able to add multiple files to playlist at once.
- Improved precision when auto matching subtitles.
- Set the default max volume to 100.
- Correct URL handing in playback history.
- Improved the appearance of Touch Bar slider.
- Improved grammatical stuff and wording.
- Added associations of more file types.
- New localization: Spanish and Ukrainian.
- Other minor changes.
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