Log on to the computer using the account in which you are experiencing the problem while using the VLC Player. Initialize the VLC Player by double-clicking its icon, or by opening any audio or video file in the application. Once opened, go to the Tools menu from the menu bar. From the displayed list, go to Preferences. Though it’s an old app it still gives best movie quality but now Windows 10 users are encountering some issues such as VLC media player not working, VLC media player crashing, lagging, scrambled video, and more. Well, these are pretty common issues that users are reporting in the forum thread. 'VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.' VLC is not working on my mac. Every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the.

Vlc Media Player Doesn't Work

Causes of VLC Player not working VLC Player might not be installed correctly on your system You could be trying to load a corrupt or unsupported file. The VLC Player could have been corrupted as well.
Devices and Mac OS X version VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Graphical Interface

Many people who want to use VLC media player on macOS will be intending to use the standard graphical interface that is provided by VLC. The standard interface consists of the eight menus in the menu bar and the 'VLC - Controller' window that opens up by default. This section outlines what VLC can do for you (at V0.8.6a current active is V3.0.10) and will be completed as I check the use of menu options.

The ten menu bar options are listed below along with the main interesting capabilities under each menu item:

VLC which allows you to check for an updated application, to access the preferences, and to add an interface.
File which allows you to open a media file, or an associated file (such as subtitles). It also has a wizard to allow the streaming of video, or the capturing of a streamed video to a file.
Edit which does nothing VLC-specific.
View which allows you to hide or show various options like previous/next buttons, shuffle and repeat, audio effects, sidebar, as well as customize what you see in 'playlist table columns'.
Playback allows you do do all the things you might expect from a video player; some of these features are duplicated graphically in the 'Controller' window.
Audio allows you to control the audio level, as well as the output device and the audio track to use from the input.
Video allows you to control the video display on your screen, as well as which device to display on, and which video source to show in that display.
Subtitles allows you to add subtitle files to your video, as well as change the appearance of subtitle text for your video.
Window allows you to display seven helper windows that will display information about VLC's activity, and control more detail of that activity.
Help gives access to the help that came with the installation, the help info on the VideoLAN site, and access to interaction mechanisms with the VLC developers.

In general, many users find that they can get what they want from VLC 'straight out of the box', and may only want more advanced controls after becoming familiar with the regular interface.

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can find most of the keyboard shortcuts by taking a look at the menus. Additional hotkeys are defined in the section 'Hotkeys' of your VLC preferences.

Some handy key combos are:

Spacebar – pause/unpause the video
⌘ + F – toggle fullscreen (Escape will also exit fullscreen)
⌘ + Shift + left/right arrow keys – jump the video back/forward about a minute
⌘ + Ctrl + left/right arrow keys – jump the video back/forward about ten seconds
When watching a DVD, and the video window is the front-most window, arrow keys and the enter key will allow you to navigate the DVD menus
F key – Decrease Audio Delay in milliseconds
G key – Increase Audio Delay in milliseconds
H key – Decrease Subtitle Delay
J key – Increase Subtitle Delay

Latest developments

Streaming Wizard

A streaming wizard has been available since the VLC media player 0.8.4 release. This is available under the 'File' menu.

Command line

You can run VLC on macOS using a terminal application (for example Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities) with the following command:

On most Bourne-like shells, you can set an alias to just vlc with the following command:

It can be helpful to add this command to your shell setup file.

This option can also be activated from the 'VLC' menu.

Command line examples

~ will expand to /Users/<username>

Following command does this: Transform video-filter (flip vertically), transcode (save) to file.

-I rc is so that it doesn't open the GUI, but stays on the command line version--vout-filter defines the filter to use--transform-type defines the attributes of the transform filter/Movie.mov is the file to convert--sout= is the stream output chain/output.mp4 is the output file name

Another Example

I had a heck of a time getting this to work the way I wanted it. I kept attempting a command-line execution of VLC to only get the following response (not what I wanted):

What I wasn't doing apparently was specifying the location of the source movie.

Eventually I ran this:

HINT:
This would be the same as if you didn't have an alias for vlc that pointed to the actual Applications executable:

Hopefully, I'll add to this post when the transcoding finishes and I see my results (I have no idea if I've got the correct options for vp8/vorbis webm-container transcoding).....

No Dock

In previous versions you can replace the VLC at the end of the path with clivlc to suppress the launch of any Mac-like interface (VLC wouldn't even appear in the Dock then) or if transcoding from the command-line crashed with a Bus error.

This does not work anymore (see Forum thread #58378)

As given by Command-line interface#macOS, specify the option -I followed by the interface you want to add e.g. VLC -Idummy.

Need Help?

See the FAQ on macOS only issues or the Common Problems pages.

Vlc Media Player Doesn't Work

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