Your favourite video player for OS X on MacBook Pro 2011 models? (Intel + AMD Graphics)

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Your favourite video player for OS X on MacBook Pro 2011 models? (Intel + AMD Graphics)

I'm wondering which application people tend to use while playing MKV and other video formats on their MacBook Pro 2011 models?

I did tryout VideoLAN (VLC) but it seems like the OS X development has somewhat gone down the drain (I did never like VLC for Windows either as it's simply inferior to Media Player Classic with CoreAVC when it comes to image quality anyways), and it doesn't seem to support either Intel HD Graphics or AMD Radeon Graphics hardware acceleration? (Only nVIDIA GeForce hardware acceleration?). It also struggles ALOT when streaming 1080P MKV's wirelessly even though it works perfectly when running Media Player Classic Home Cinema with Combined Community Codec Pack and CoreAVC in Windows7 Enterprise 64-bit through BootCamp?

There are other recommended video applications like Movist, MPlayerX and MPlayer OS X Extended but both Movist (changed developer?) and MPlayer OS X Extended seems to have no ongoing development whatsoever? There hasn't been any updates or new releases of these applications for several months, while MPlayerX at least got an updated this month.

Which video-player do you find the best, and why? And does any of them actually support hardware acceleration from my MacBook Pro 2011's integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 card or at least my dedicated AMD Radeon HD6750M card?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacBook Pro 17" 2011 standard model

Posted on Jul 17, 2011 3:31 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 17, 2011 4:24 AM in response to RamGuy239

Hi,

i use vlc and the perian ( http://perian.org/ ) codec pack for quicktime. With this two i am watching every file for some years now.

However i also has the same problem with streaming and vlc, it seem kind of random which files work and wich not. Maybe its how fragmented they are on the sorce drive. I dont know and it only happens in 1 of 50 files. Overall its still the best and most complete combinaton i found.

Chris

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ds store

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Jul 17, 2011 5:43 AM in response to RamGuy239

Intel HD 3000 is poor integrated graphics, on the CPU, so how is it not "hardware acceleration?"

You have a choice to install Perian and Flip4Mac and watch the additional video/audio codecs etc., in Quicktime.

Apple doesn't support everything out there, neither does Microsoft in favor of their own formats, but there are solutions.

VLC is free, plays nearly anything, worked on by volunteers, the same sort of people who are helping out on these forums.

If you want VLC to be better, donate a few million dollars their way for them to make it better.

If you want to try another player try Miro. But it too is maintained by volunteers and free.

http://www.getmiro.com/download/

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. 😉

If your having some sort of slow down while playing video, the video player is likely not to blame. It's the Intel HD 3000.

Go to your Energy Savings and uncheck the graphics swtiching, now you'll be using the dedicated graphic card exclusively.

That should resolve the issue.

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prietus

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Dec 10, 2012 11:47 PM in response to ds store

xbmc, currently supports hw decoding with intel for osx, i know is heavy software for only play mkvs but i have tested with x3100 and hd300 and works fine.

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