![]() ![]() Movist also provides lots of other settings (though not quite as many as VLC), as well as support for the Apple Remote. ![]() I like that for movie formats that both FFmpeg and QuickTime can handle, Movist lets you switch between the two to see which provides better results. In my testing, Movist handled most video files with aplomb, although on rare occasion the program crashed when viewing a video that VLC played without issue. However, you can’t save playlists, and if you drag a video file directly into Movist, rather than into your playlist, you lose any playlist you’ve created. (Movist’s preferences include settings for browsing video in iTunes, as well, although iTunes-hosted videos didn’t show up in this interface for me.)Īs with VLC, you can create a playlist of videos that play sequentially and, if desired, repeat. You can also manually open or add subtitle files.Īnother great feature is Movist’s fullscreen-navigation mode: Double-click the Movist icon in a blank Movist playback window (or choose File -> Full Screen Navigation or press Command+N), and Movist takes over your screen, letting you browse your ~/Movies folder using an interface very much like Apple’s own Front Row. Movist also offers the most-flexible subtitle controls I’ve seen in a media player: After choosing the subtitle track, you can customize the fonts, the vertical margins, the synchronization, and the position of subtitles. You can even set a playing movie as your Desktop background. You can also change the aspect ratio of any playback window Movist shrinks or stretches the movie to fit the chosen aspect ratio. There’s also a built-in screenshot feature that lets you save an image of the current video frame.Īs with most media players, you can choose the size of the video-playback window however, when in fullscreen mode, Movist lets you choose how the movie fills the screen-by expanding or cropping. Movist also provides many playback features you won’t find in QuickTime Player, as well as some features QuickTime Player lost in the transition from version 7 to Snow Leopard’s version X.įor example, Movist offers a wide range of playback navigation options, including variable-speed playback, frame-by-frame playback, configurable-second skips, and range playback (where you set the beginning and end of a clip). Like VLC, Movist is based in part on FFmpeg, a cross-platform set of codecs that lets you play a plethora of media formats not supported by OS X’s own QuickTime technology. The current version offers VLC some much-needed media-playback competition thanks to an interface that I find to be more attractive and easier to use. Movist has been around since 2007, but it’s made some big development strides over the past six months or so. But these days, there are a number of quality alternatives, including MPlayer OS X Extended (which we’ll be looking at soon) and today’s Gem, Movist. VLC Media Player has long held the crown of “best free, handle-anything media player” for Mac OS X. ![]()
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