While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by playing every weird file you could throw at it. Here’s how to get the most out of it on Mac.
VLC Player on Mac
VLC Player on Mac
VLC is a free, open source media player that runs on Apple devices. Its main strength is wide format support without external codecs.
The program didn’t come from a corporate skunkworks or a Silicon Valley incubator. It started in 1996 in Paris, when students just wanted to stream TV across campus.