A new MacOS player it seems?

I just recently switched to Infuse 8 after buying a couple Apple TV boxes. The network sharing + iCloud timestamp syncing between my phone/macbook/multiple TVs is the best thing ever. My macbook is basically a media server for every device in my house. No need for annoying plex servers.

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pxc 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's a player of the ffmpeg lineage; a GUI frontend for mpv. If you use mpv or some frontend (e.g., SMPlayer, Celluloid, or Haruna) on other platforms, IINA is a natural choice on macOS.

It's free software, it's keyboard friendly, it supports more of less every format, and it blends into the OS's native desktop environment. I don't have an eye for design, but it seems good to me. If there's a better choice for local multimedia playback on macOS, I don't know what that is.

(It seems the only other real contender on the backend is VLC, which is likewise excellent software.)

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tiagod 4 days ago | parent [-]

>It seems the only other real contender on the backend is VLC

Does VLC already support HDR content on MacOS? I switched to IINA because of that omission.

	▲	pxc 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know. I have a medical light sensitivity problem that makes most HDR content physically painful for me unless I manipulate picture settings to reduce peak brightness, backlight, and/or contrast in various ways. Between my light sensitivity and my progressive colorblindness, I don't get as much out of HDR as most people do, so I just turn it off where possible. Maybe some day when I have more external displays with OLED or something else that can do millions-to-one contrast ratios, I'll play around with HDR and see if I can find a way to reliably make it comfortable, but for now I don't own any-- it's just the built-in displays of my mobile devices, and I spend as much time as possible on much larger screens because I also have visual acuity problems.

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yborg 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

IINA has been around for quite a while, it's a front end for mpv. Pretty much Just Werks, it's my standard video playback client.

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dmix 4 days ago | parent [-]

Ah, I'll try it out thanks. I tried out https://mpv.io/ but wasn't a big fan.

	▲	notpushkin 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		mpv is a nice piece of tech, a solid foundation for a player. IINA agapts it to feel native on macOS, and it does amazing job at that.

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shrinks99 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not that new, I've been using IINA for years! It's pretty good.

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torarnv 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Another vote for Infuse. In my experience Infuse 8 handles HDR and color management correctly (1:1 with Safari or QuickTime), while IINA does not (too dark).

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chazeon 4 days ago | parent [-]

Infuse is good, but it does not feel so well-polished for the desktop, for example, some windows for pop-up could have been a real window, but were a pop-up that blocks the main player.

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	▲	dmix 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed. I still use it anyway because I like icloud syncing