

Intuitive UI and comprehensive platform support make it an excellent option for creating and managing a personal media library. Plex consists of two parts: the media server itself and media player that can handle almost all formats and Ultra HD resolution.

In fact, it’s a media streaming server app. Plex is much more than just a typical video player. But the most impressive thing about 5KPlayer is the DLNA and AirPlay support which allows users to stream video across their devices. Apart from supporting a wide range of formats, the player also works as a video downloader and converter. The player comes with an easy-to-use interface that can be customized with just a few clicks.ĥKPlayer is an all-around great media player for Mac that has a few tricks up its sleeve. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced Apple user, you need to try VLC as it supports all major formats from MP4 to WMV. It is a simple yet powerful program and is perhaps the best replacement for the default video player on your Mac. VLC is a well-known cross-platform media player developed by VideoLAN. Best Video Player for Mac: Our Top Picks.How We Tested and Picked Video Players for Mac.Do You Need a Different Media Player on Your Mac?.For apps that are now Universal, you need to indicate under requirements that they are universal, because there are users that may want to run native-ARM apps, if available (and if you own an ARM mac, why wouldn't you want to run native apps if available?). Maybe that means separate MU pages for each platform in the case of VLC, or you need to host both versions and offer the user a choice which file when downloading.

So come up with a system to handle this new world we live in, every day that goes by it only will get more confusing. VLC is the first app I've seen that comes as separate installers, but logical to think more will come, for whatever reason a Universal app is not available (technical reasons, licensing, size of the executable, who knows). There a many Universal apps now, but if you look at the MAc Update page for them, there is no indication that they are Universal and requirements still say Intel-64.

As I"ve been telling MU for several months you need to come up with a system/policy for how to document and catalog Universal and/or ARM only apps. The download you are hosting currently as of this date is the ARM version. VLC is now available in separate Intel and ARM (Apple Silicon) versions, with DIFFERENT versioning schemes.
