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For years, my go-to video player was IINA. It’s a fantastic open-source project that has served the Mac community incredibly well. It plays almost anything you throw at it, and for most people, it works great. But as someone who lives in Picture-in-P...

When we talk about video players, we almost always talk about pixels. Is it 4K? Is it HDR? Is the color accurate? But as any movie lover knows, video is only half the experience. The other half is audio. Most video players treat audio as an afterthou...

You double-click a video file someone sent you. It's an .mkv, an .avi, or a .webm. Instead of your video playing, you get the same frustrating error: "The file ... is not compatible with QuickTime Player." We've all been there. We love our Macs for t...

We've all been there. It's late, you're trying to watch the latest blockbuster, and you can't understand what the actors are saying. The action scenes are deafening. The explosions shake the room. You dive for the remote to turn the volume down. A se...
