VLC plays MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, WebM, and WMV. It is my favorite movie player for Mac OS X and Windows because of its simplicity and the fact that it can play virtually any video file type. Since I started using Mac OS X, the VLC became my favorite app for playing videos, and I’ll tell you why. It does not, by default, play AVI, DivX, Flash Video, and other file types, though that can be remedied by installing plugins such as Perian, which is free and open source.Īpple’s default player for OS X has also been available for Windows for two decades now.
On Mac OS X, there is a preinstalled Quicktime Player which can be used to play Quicktime video, AIFF, WAV, DV-DIF, MP3, and MPEG. VLC can play just any video file type you throw at it.
