Devices and Mac OS X version
VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases.
Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below.
Web browser plugin for Mac OS X
Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates.
MPlayerX is armed by FFmpeg and MPlayer, which means it could handle any media format in the world without extra plug-ins or codec packages. Dance on your fingers. Pinch, tap or swipe, MPlayerX provides you the easiest way to control the playback. Nov 16, 2017 Download MPlayer OS X for free. A binary distribution of MPlayer - the movie player for Linux. MPlayer OS X is project based on MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) port to Mac OS X platform. It consist of compiled binaries of mplayer and mencoder, separate GUI for mencoder and standalone Cocoa player application based on mplayer binaries.
Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player
- Free Klokan Petr Pridal Mac/OS X 10.4 PPC Version 2.0b8r5 Full Specs. Average User Rating. MPlayer OS X 2.0b8r4 2005-05-17 12:11:03 By Shock83j16 Summary. This review was originally posted.
- Install mplayer on Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Super User The following video output option is more user friendly because you can resize the video or make it play fullscreen. The downside is that you can only play one video at a time because 'xv' is a limited system resource.
We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. You can find recommendations for the respective operating system version below. Note that support ended for all releases listed below and hence they won't receive any further updates.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Use VLC 2.2.8. Get it here.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Use VLC 2.0.10. Get it for PowerPC or 32bit Intel.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later is required
Use VLC 0.9.10. Get it for PowerPC or Intel.
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is required
Mplayerx Download Mac
Use VLC 0.8.6i. Get it for PowerPC.
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Use VLC 0.8.4a. Get it for PowerPC.
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma
Mplayer Mac
Use VLC 0.7.0. Get it for PowerPC.