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.
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.
For me, the biggest value of VLC comes from one (seemingly) simple feature: OSX provides a “My Music” folder, yet every player (aside from VLC) I’ve found asks you to manually tell it your music directories. VLC knows from the start that your music is likely in this directory. You click My Music, and all the sub-folders are listed. Genius!
My only complaint is that each folder within My Music doesn’t have an “expand” arrow next to it unless I’ve already clicked on that folder. I’d like to be able to double-click a folder without it autoplaying the contents, and expand/contract any one of them at will (to check the contents).