VLC vs IINA vs Vidi: Which Mac Video Player Is Best?Choosing a video player on macOS used to be straightforward. Today, with Apple Silicon Macs, HDR displays, and higher expectations around battery life and visual quality, how a video player is built matters just as much as what it can play. VLC, IINA...Dec 17, 2025·3 min read
Why Videos Look Washed Out on macOS (HDR & Color Explained)If you’ve ever watched a video on your Mac and thought the colors looked flat, washed out, or just off, you’re not imagining things. This is a common issue on macOS — especially with HDR or high-quality video files. The reason isn’t usually the video...Dec 17, 2025·3 min read
Why MKV Files Don’t Open in QuickTime (And How to Fix It)If you’ve ever double‑clicked a video on your Mac only to see QuickTime refuse to open it, there’s a good chance the file was an MKV. This is a common frustration for macOS users — and it’s not because the file is broken. In this article, we’ll expla...Dec 17, 2025·3 min read
How to Play MKV (Matroska) Files on macOSIf you’ve ever downloaded a movie or TV episode and found it wouldn’t open in QuickTime, chances are it was an MKV file. While MKV is a popular and flexible video format, macOS doesn’t support it out of the box — which can be frustrating. Here’s what...Dec 17, 2025·2 min read
Best Video Player for macOS (2025–2026)On modern macOS, video playback is no longer just about opening a file. With apple Silicon, advanced display pipelines, and strict power efficiency mean the architecture of a video player has a direct impact on image quality, audio, and battery life....Dec 17, 2025·3 min read
Why We Built the Advanced PiP We Always WantedThis was the feature that started it all. Before Vidi, I was a heavy user of other Mac video players. I’m a developer, which means I spend most of my day with a code editor on one side of the screen and a video playing in Picture-in-Picture (PiP) on ...Nov 16, 2025·3 min read
A Deep Dive into Vidi’s Immersive Audio Suite (Spatial, Cinema & Voice Boost)When we talk about video players, we almost always talk about pixels. Is it 4K? Is it HDR? Is the color accurate? But as any movie lover knows, video is only half the experience. The other half is audio. Most video players treat audio as an afterthou...Nov 16, 2025·3 min read
