Happy* IINA user here. I use youtube keybindings + 'video speed controller' (chrome extension) keybindings for quick speed up/down/reset and skipping back/forward through videos).
* It did have a problem with crazy power consumption, but I think that's been fixed (haven't noticed the problem for a few months).
Did you have problem with hw acceleration? I noticed that 4k videos can be a little choppy if hw decoding is on, with sw decoding they are fine but battery life is horrible then.
"The StandaloneWindow module provides a way to create a separate window to display custom content. You are able to control a full-sized webview inside the window, therefore you can use HTML, CSS, and advanced techniques like WebGL to render the contents." [1]
So... someone could make a Webamp[2] plugin?
And Butterchurn[3] for viz? (Assuming one can plumb in a compatible audio node)
I just recently switched to Infuse 8 after buying a couple Apple TV boxes. The network sharing + iCloud timestamp syncing between my phone/macbook/multiple TVs is the best thing ever. My macbook is basically a media server for every device in my house. No need for annoying plex servers.
It's a player of the ffmpeg lineage; a GUI frontend for mpv. If you use mpv or some frontend (e.g., SMPlayer, Celluloid, or Haruna) on other platforms, IINA is a natural choice on macOS.
It's free software, it's keyboard friendly, it supports more of less every format, and it blends into the OS's native desktop environment. I don't have an eye for design, but it seems good to me. If there's a better choice for local multimedia playback on macOS, I don't know what that is.
(It seems the only other real contender on the backend is VLC, which is likewise excellent software.)
Another vote for Infuse. In my experience Infuse 8 handles HDR and color management correctly (1:1 with Safari or QuickTime), while IINA does not (too dark).
Infuse is good, but it does not feel so well-polished for the desktop, for example, some windows for pop-up could have been a real window, but were a pop-up that blocks the main player.
Tried using the "Online Media" built-in plugin for a couple of trivial test cases — Youtube and archive.org — the former worked, while the latter failed, so I disabled it and switched back to yt-dlp in
The plugin architecture here reminds me of what happened with VS Code - once you give users a proper JavaScript API and decent documentation, the community starts solving problems you never even knew existed. But there's something particularly clever about IINA's approach: they're essentially turning every media file into a potential canvas for interactive experiences.
A lesson learned over and over again is that you can build amazing things with tightly coupled plugins, but once you have about three of them upgrading or changing anything gets kind of impossible - Hyrum's law. On the other hand, loosely coupled out-of-process plugins are a lot less flexible, but tend to work a lot better and more reliably, at the cost of more up-front engineering and overall investment. Assuming that what they can do is sufficient to work.
Consider that e.g. kubernetes has basically just one actual core component (the API server) and everything else is loosely-coupled plugins. Alternatively, consider any of the projects stuck for 15 years on Python 2 because that's what their plugin system was in 2009. These are two points on a spectrum.
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I wish more apps had Lua or JS sandboxes for plugins.
https://rickcarlino.com/notes/ideas/using-llms-to-create-end...
* It did have a problem with crazy power consumption, but I think that's been fixed (haven't noticed the problem for a few months).
So... someone could make a Webamp[2] plugin?
And Butterchurn[3] for viz? (Assuming one can plumb in a compatible audio node)
[1] https://docs.iina.io/interfaces/IINA.API.StandaloneWindow
[2] https://docs.webamp.org/docs/intro
[3] https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
I just recently switched to Infuse 8 after buying a couple Apple TV boxes. The network sharing + iCloud timestamp syncing between my phone/macbook/multiple TVs is the best thing ever. My macbook is basically a media server for every device in my house. No need for annoying plex servers.
It's free software, it's keyboard friendly, it supports more of less every format, and it blends into the OS's native desktop environment. I don't have an eye for design, but it seems good to me. If there's a better choice for local multimedia playback on macOS, I don't know what that is.
(It seems the only other real contender on the backend is VLC, which is likewise excellent software.)
Does VLC already support HDR content on MacOS? I switched to IINA because of that omission.
Consider that e.g. kubernetes has basically just one actual core component (the API server) and everything else is loosely-coupled plugins. Alternatively, consider any of the projects stuck for 15 years on Python 2 because that's what their plugin system was in 2009. These are two points on a spectrum.