Frequently Asked Questions

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. As known to all, Microsoft discontinued Windows Media Player for Mac way back in 2006, so users have to find another way to play WMV on Mac (macOS High Sierra). VLC is a famous media player which can play most video, however, play WMVwith VLC on Mac (macOS High Sierra) will be a challenge. You will fail to play WMV on VLC on Mac directly. VLC Media Player for Mac is a powerful and efficient app for playing all kinds of media in multiple formats right on your Mac. With this app in place, you can just download and watch what you want.

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Graphical Interface

Many people who want to use VLC media player on macOS will be intending to use the standard graphical interface that is provided by VLC. The standard interface consists of the eight menus in the menu bar and the 'VLC - Controller' window that opens up by default. This section outlines what VLC can do for you (at V0.8.6a current active is V3.0.10) and will be completed as I check the use of menu options.

VLC for Mac OS X VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Open and Play WMV in VLC Player on MacOS (High) Sierra WMV file format is a very famous file format among Windows users to play video files which can be easily played on Windows operating system using VLC media player.

The ten menu bar options are listed below along with the main interesting capabilities under each menu item:

• VLC which allows you to check for an updated application, to access the preferences, and to add an interface.
• File which allows you to open a media file, or an associated file (such as subtitles). It also has a wizard to allow the streaming of video, or the capturing of a streamed video to a file.
• Edit which does nothing VLC-specific.
• View which allows you to hide or show various options like previous/next buttons, shuffle and repeat, audio effects, sidebar, as well as customize what you see in 'playlist table columns'.
• Playback allows you do do all the things you might expect from a video player; some of these features are duplicated graphically in the 'Controller' window.
• Audio allows you to control the audio level, as well as the output device and the audio track to use from the input.
• Video allows you to control the video display on your screen, as well as which device to display on, and which video source to show in that display.
• Subtitles allows you to add subtitle files to your video, as well as change the appearance of subtitle text for your video.
• Window allows you to display seven helper windows that will display information about VLC's activity, and control more detail of that activity.
• Help gives access to the help that came with the installation, the help info on the VideoLAN site, and access to interaction mechanisms with the VLC developers.

In general, many users find that they can get what they want from VLC 'straight out of the box', and may only want more advanced controls after becoming familiar with the regular interface.

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can find most of the keyboard shortcuts by taking a look at the menus. Additional hotkeys are defined in the section 'Hotkeys' of your VLC preferences.

Some handy key combos are:

• Spacebar – pause/unpause the video
• ⌘ + F – toggle fullscreen (Escape will also exit fullscreen)
• ⌘ + Shift + left/right arrow keys – jump the video back/forward about a minute
• ⌘ + Ctrl + left/right arrow keys – jump the video back/forward about ten seconds
• When watching a DVD, and the video window is the front-most window, arrow keys and the enter key will allow you to navigate the DVD menus
• F key – Decrease Audio Delay in milliseconds
• G key – Increase Audio Delay in milliseconds
• H key – Decrease Subtitle Delay
• J key – Increase Subtitle Delay

Latest developments

Streaming Wizard

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A streaming wizard has been available since the VLC media player 0.8.4 release. This is available under the 'File' menu.

Command line

You can run VLC on macOS using a terminal application (for example Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities) with the following command:

On most Bourne-like shells, you can set an alias to just vlc with the following command:

It can be helpful to add this command to your shell setup file.

This option can also be activated from the 'VLC' menu.

Command line examples

~ will expand to /Users/<username>

Following command does this: Transform video-filter (flip vertically), transcode (save) to file.

-I rc is so that it doesn't open the GUI, but stays on the command line version--vout-filter defines the filter to use--transform-type defines the attributes of the transform filter/Movie.mov is the file to convert--sout= is the stream output chain/output.mp4 is the output file name

Another Example

I had a heck of a time getting this to work the way I wanted it. I kept attempting a command-line execution of VLC to only get the following response (not what I wanted):

What I wasn't doing apparently was specifying the location of the source movie.

Eventually I ran this:

HINT:
This would be the same as if you didn't have an alias for vlc that pointed to the actual Applications executable:

Hopefully, I'll add to this post when the transcoding finishes and I see my results (I have no idea if I've got the correct options for vp8/vorbis webm-container transcoding).....

No Dock

In previous versions you can replace the VLC at the end of the path with clivlc to suppress the launch of any Mac-like interface (VLC wouldn't even appear in the Dock then) or if transcoding from the command-line crashed with a Bus error.

This does not work anymore (see Forum thread #58378)

As given by Command-line interface#macOS, specify the option -I followed by the interface you want to add e.g. VLC -Idummy.

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See the FAQ on macOS only issues or the Common Problems pages.

WMV is a common video format which is supported by Windwos media player. As known to all, Microsoft discontinued Windows Media Player for Mac way back in 2006, so users have to find another way to play WMV on Mac (macOS High Sierra). VLC is a famous media player which can play most video, however, play WMVwith VLC on Mac (macOS High Sierra) will be a challenge. You will fail to play WMV on VLC on Mac directly. Don’t be sad, fortunately, there is a perfect and easy way. Keep reading.

Best Solution to Play WMVwith VLC on Mac (macOS High Sierra)

Best option is to choose another video formats that VLC can support on Mac, in other words, if you can convert WMV to VLC supported video formats on Mac, everything will become smooth. Here, you can try Pavtube iMedia Converter which is a powerful video converter, user-friendly interface, high stability, no any advertisements. More features you can read the following details or this review.

No 1. This software is powerful, you can install it on any Mac version, such as: the latest new macOS 10.12 macOS Sierra, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, Snow Leopard10.6, Leopard 10.5 etc.

No 2. User not only can import WMV video in this video converter, MP4, AVI, MOV, H.265, MPEG, etc are all supported by this software.

No 3. In this software, you can convert WMV to any video formats that VLC can support, sucha s: MOV, VOB, MKV, FLV, AVI, MP4, etc. Also you can choose HD video, 4K video, 3D video, etc.

No 4. As a built-in video editor, you can and add subtitles to video, replace music fro video, adjust the video background color and brightness, even you can rotate video and so on.

No 5. Big surprise, this software can be an excellent DVD and Blu-ray Ripper, you can load DVD and Blu-ray disc, ISO file, folder, etc. In addition, this software can remove all the DVD/Blu-ray protection.

Quick Guide: Convert WMV to VLC Supported Video Formats

Step 1. Load WMV Video

Download and install the video converter on your PC. Launch it and click “File” to import your videos and music. Good news, you can add a folder and put all the video into it, then choose 'Load from folder', you can import multiple WMV video files and do batch video conversion.

Step 2. Choose Output format.

Click “Format”, from its drop-down option, there are many category, you can choose one video formats from them, for example: Choose “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” from “HD Video” main category. Best of all, user also can choose 3D MP4 from the “3D Video” . Of course, you can choose other video formats, such as:MOV, AVI from 'HD Video' or 'Common Video'.

Tips: before the magic video conversion, you can click 'Setting' button to adjust the video and audio parameters, for example: You can choose AAC audio codec in Audio Settings, you also can choose the audio channel, such as: 5.1 surround sound audio or stereo. Other parameters are ready for you. Best of all, you can upscale HD video to 4K video by adjusting the video resolution from 1080P to 3840*2160.

Step 3. Carry out the Conversion.

After all setting is completed, hit right-bottom “Convert” button to convert WMV to VLC supported video formats conversion. Just wait for a while, you can get a new converted WMV file. Then you can play WMV with VLC on Mac.

Play Converted WMV video with VLC on Mac

Open VLC Media Player on Mac——>Click “Browse” and choose the most WMV Videos——>Click “Open” to play the video.

In fact, this software is very easy to do, just 3 cicks, you can play WMV video with VLC on Mac smoothly, when you can’t play other video on Mac, this software can help you to solve the trouble. By the way, Window users also can own this perfect tool.