It will now need to look for VLC media player. The app itself is still called VLC.app and the bundle ID is still so this should only cause a problem if you had a Keyboard Maestro macro that looked for the VLC menu item. (if they were going to change it, I would have suggested VLC Media Player not VLC media player but does anyone using VLC really not know that VLC is a media player app? So… WHY?) There might be an explanation somewhere, I haven't had a chance to look. The potentially bad news is that the menu item next to the Menu has changed from 'VLC' to 'VLC media player'. Most of the rest is dynamic libraries, one per video codec VLC. About 38MB of that is localizations for a ton of languages, you only need / read one. The good news is that is version brings native VLC support (although after you install 3.0.12 on an M1 Mac, you have to do "Check for Updates" again to get the actual Apple Silicon version, for reasons I do not fully understand). VLC is not a huge app, the bundle's 115MB. How to play multiple instances of VLC at 'm not sure this will cause problems with Keyboard Maestro, but it might, so I at least wanted to raise the issue in order to make people aware of the potential for problems.If prompted "are you sure", select "Yes".Under "Open with:", click dropdown and select the VLC droplet/app.Right click on the file (assumes you have right click enabled).So make sure to download the correct version to avoid degraded performance. It’s free and available in the App Store for Macs with both Intel processors and Apple silicon chips. Open Finder and find the video file of interest. Plus the conversion presets integrated with the program, VLC works just fine as a video converter on your Mac.If the video starts up on its own, select the pause button in the VLC controller at the bottom of the screen. Select the video file you want to watch from the standard Open dialog box, and then select Open. Once users update the VLC app for macOS to version 3.0. avi, and other files directly with the VLC droplet/app, allowing you to simply click on the files to launch the files in a new standalone VLC session.įile Association with the Droplet/App can be done as follows: VLC can be found in your Macs Applications folder. M1 is the first iteration of Apples Arm-based chips for Macs.
Or can create a Droplet/App by pasting the code below into a new AppleScript Editor script and save it as an application: on runĭo shell script "open -n /Applications/VLC.app"ĭo shell script "open -na /Applications/VLC.app " & quote & (POSIX path of theFile) & quote On the Mac, running multiple instances of VLC is not supported out of the box.Īs workaround, you can run it from command prompt as: open -n /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC my_video.mp4
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