VLC media player

About

VLC media player is a free and open source multimedia player and framework for Mac. It plays most multimedia files, as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. According to the website, it plays most codecs without codec packs, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, and MP3.

VLC is available for macOS in Universal and Apple Silicon versions. The website describes it as completely free, with no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking. Users can also customise the player by adding skins, creating skins with the VLC skin editor, and installing extensions.

VLC is a cross-platform project, and the website says it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, and Android. VideoLAN, the non-profit organisation behind VLC, licenses the software under various open-source licenses.