Local playback
Open, drag-and-drop, or resume recent files. Play, pause, stop, and customizable skip distances. Frame-accurate scrubbing with hover preview thumbnails, frame step, and variable speed. Volume, mute, and boost above 100%. Fullscreen, picture-in-picture, compact mode, and stay-on-top. Aspect modes include Fit, Fill, 16:9, 4:3, and more cinema ratios, plus native 100% pixel size. Hardware decoding with auto-safe / VideoToolbox when available. Resume where you left off. Network URLs, favorites, TV/radio stations, disc support (DVD, Blu-ray, CD, VCD / ISO folders), and capture devices.
Playlist & queue
Multi-file playlists with drag reorder. Add files or whole folders with subfolder scan. Repeat one, repeat all, shuffle, or stop at end. Import and export M3U, M3U8, PLS, XSPF, and more. Search and filter titles; sort by path, title, or duration. Lyrics panel with multi-language support.
Bookmarks & navigation
Bookmarks with optional labels, jump to time, and import/export as CSV or XML. Chapters, titles, and angles when present. A–B loop sections for focused review.
Video & audio control
Audio track selection including multi-language. Channel layouts from mono through 7.1 and stereo modes. Audio delay, volume normalization, karaoke, compressor, and pitch lock. Subtitles: load external files, style, delay, closed captions, plus OpenSubtitles download and upload. Video equalizer for brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, and hue. Deinterlace, rotate, flip, and mirror. Filters for deblock, denoise, sharpen, deband, and noise. Stereo 3D modes. Send video to another screen and audio to a chosen output.
Frame capture & editor
Snap frames to a filmstrip (S key), then export, copy, rename, or drag frames out. Annotation tools include pen, brush, pencil, arrow, box, line, ellipse, text, icons, blur, redact, pixelate, highlight, measure, crop, magnify, and more. Layers with show/hide, reorder, nudge, and undo/redo. Color wheel, swatches, and stroke styles. Installed and online fonts for captions. Export annotated PNGs — one frame or all.
Cut
Mark start and end segments on the timeline. Keep or discard ranges. Export a single segment or merge used segments into one file.
Export
Re-encode to many containers including MP4, MKV, WebM, MOV, AVI, and audio formats. Codec pairs such as H.264/AAC and VP9/Opus. Choose which video and audio tracks to include. Resize from source through 480p to 8K (4320p). Audio-only export when you only need the soundtrack.
YouTube download
Paste a video or playlist link (yt-dlp). Pick video and audio formats and languages. Extra audio tracks muxed for track switching. Playlist download with keep or skip per item. Segment download and merge. Subtitles, thumbnail embed, and metadata. Browser cookie sign-in for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and more. Open finished downloads in the player, with recent download history.
Studio workflow
Five tabs in one app: Player, Editor, Cut, Export, and YouTube. Media info via ffprobe with a detailed report and copyable JSON. Thumbnail sheet generator, screenshots, and burst screenshots. Editable keyboard shortcuts, live log viewer, and settings that persist — volume, window size, skip distance, scrub preview, and more. Install helpers for FFmpeg and yt-dlp.
Built for desktop
Native desktop app powered by Rust and libmpv. Original interface — not a VLC or IINA clone. macOS is the primary platform, with packaging for Windows and Linux. Mac releases are signed and notarized.
