Dec 17, 2025 · 3 min read · Apple Silicon fundamentally changed what Macs are capable of. With M‑series chips, Macs deliver incredible performance per watt, powerful media engines, and long battery life — but only if apps are built to take advantage of them. When it comes to vi...
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Nov 16, 2025 · 3 min read · This was the feature that started it all. Before Vidi, I was a heavy user of other Mac video players. I’m a developer, which means I spend most of my day with a code editor on one side of the screen and a video playing in Picture-in-Picture (PiP) on ...
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Nov 15, 2025 · 4 min read · 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...
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Nov 16, 2025 · 3 min read · 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...
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Nov 15, 2025 · 3 min read · 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...
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Nov 15, 2025 · 3 min read · 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...
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