An open-source multimedia player based on Quicktime and FFMPEG. Supports a wide range of video formats, including HD formats like .MKV and H.264, as well as a variety of audio formats. The app supports 3D subtitles and Retina displays. It also includes a discovery engine that suggests movies based on your likes or dislikes.
Movist is an open-source video player based on Quicktime and FFMPEG. The application can open pretty much every video format out there, and performs quite well in playing them all, even HD formats like MKV and H.264, among others. Movist is a great player because it is incredibly simple and easy to use. I currently use Movist for my video playback needs over VLC and Boxee because it is just that SIMPLE, and it works great.
The first time that I used Movist was a time when VLC was struggling to play an HD file. So I read that Movist was good at that. And good it is. It played the 1080p file without any stuttering or artifacts, and since then I haven't stopped using it. I placed the Movist icon on my dock, so every time I want to watch a movie or a video, I simply drag it to the icon and the video starts playing automatically.
Movist has all the basic features that you can expect to see in a video player. There is full-screen support, audio and video options, subtitle support, etc.
Movist does have some problems, though. In all my time with it, I noticed that some subtitle formats fail to open. Also, sometimes some files play without audio, when they play fine on VLC.
Those little issues aside, Movist still is my favorite player these days. It is simple and it works great.
v1.3 [Jun 20, 2013]
• Fixed digital audio out.
• Fixed no sound when default equalizer preset is set or equalizer is set while paused.
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Followings are change notes of 1.3.0 version.
• Fixed no sleep while paused in FFmpeg decoder.
• Fixed no file icon in title bar when window restored.
• Removed ~/Downloads in Accessible Folders (for App Sandbox Guideline)
• Changed default screenshot path to (none) (for App Sandbox Guideline)
• New app & file icon.
• Added Dock menu.
• Enhanced control-panel auto-hiding.
• Enhanced shortcut searching.
• Supported locale for playlist sorting.
• Fixed sorting when add files to playlist.
• Added context-menu by right-click in control-panel.
• Enhanced seeking by horizontal scroll.
• Fixed Fit-to-Screen in full-screen.
• Supported auto-rotation of movies from iPhone.
• Fixed no sound for some sound tracks.
• Fixed keeping equalizer when sound tracks changed.
• Fixed mute status when sound track off then on.
• Enhanced multi-channel sound downmix.
• Changed default value to off for "Use digital audio out".
• Added subtitle play-speed.
• Added subtitle list in subtitle-tab of control-panel.
• Enhanced handling for subfolders and compressed files for subtitles.
• FFmpeg 1.2.1 applied.
• 64-bit only.
• and more bugs fixed & enhancements.
