By default, MacOS does not come with a single app that can play all used film and audio formats. Quicktime is not able to reproduce MKV files-and the finder or the TV application from Apple. If you want to enjoy more multimedia formats, you need additional tools. Next to the VLC player should Iina the most popular application of the same name open source project. Which themselves MPV Basic software is now facing major changes: it should be a new one Plugin system as well as give user scripts.
Plugins easy to create
The functions can now be found for the first time in the Betaversion of Iina 1.4.0 Try it out on GitHub. Thanks to a mighty, but still easy to use, plugins should be quickly created and used.
The first examples are an OpenDubtitles plugin to get subtitles-which is easier to use than the previous integration-and an online media plugin on board. The latter allows you to download videos while running and quickly switching between quality levels. The new user scripts are again designed as plugins.
Developers hope for many plugins
The Iina makers hope that even better tools will be added by opening the interface. The possibilities are wide, plugins can also manage streams, handle events or make playlists more easily editing. The Iina makers have a documentary Published on the web.
Iina 1.4.0 also comes with more languages-such as Hebrew and Croatian-better shortcut management and various bug fixes. Iina also has A browser extension for web videos. The supported playback formats are rich, in principle there is nothing common, which the app does not dominate itself. The operation is pleasant and the app feels like a real MacOS application thanks to coding in Swift. Iina is free and is under a GPLV3 license. It is still unclear when the final version of Iina 1.4.0 will be released. However, if you are interested in creating your own plugins, you should hurry – then you or she may be there at the start.
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