

Radio stations, and allows you to organise your media. VLC player also has a media browser, which includes access to Internet The interface is very easy to use and shares many of the same featuresĪnd buttons you find in most media players. Now instead of those pesky error messages the file will open in the VLC VLC media player so you don’t have to manually choose which app to open This will associate all of the files of that particular format with the Next on the same Info window after selecting the VLC player under “Open The Info window will open and from the Open With drop down chose the The file icon and choose Get info or click on the file to highlight it mkv or other uncommon video format and either right click on You should see the message to tell you downloaded this from a webpage click Open:įor ease of access in the future go back to the folder which has your Navigate to your Applications folder and double click on the VLC icon: dmg file (that’s a disk image in case you wanted to know, notĪnd then drag the VLC icon to the Applications icon in the now opened For Mac, it will download into your downloads folder: Mustard! Enter a great & open source piece of software “VLC media Lost cousin in Eastern Europe it just doesn’t cut the Screen recording, but for opening video files you received from a long

Now don’t get me wrong QuickTime has some great features including Shortly followed by the familiar, QuickTime can’t open Or even worse QuickTime will give you a tantalising teaser that is QuickTime will give you any one of the following errors: To this day! Just not on a Mac running Catalina. Video editing features and import / export options, I’m still using it QuickTime 7 offered the Pro version for a one time payment whichīasically upgraded the standard QuickTime player adding many useful And with the introduction of MacOS Catalina we have had to say goodbye to our beloved QuickTime 7. QuickTime is great, but it won’t play an AVI file out of the box or the lesser-known MKV for example.
