Iina media player driver#

To me, it's pretty obvious that IINA looks better, and VLC looks muddy. I have already tried the following: changing the output, using the native-full screen, disabling deinterlacing, and probably a bunch of other random settings, but to no avail.

Iina media player driver#

It may be a codec issue, non-native display driver issue, or something over my head. Both my installations of VLC and IINA are up-to-date (in the case of IINA, I have tried both 1.1.2 and the 1.2.0 beta).įirst off, VLC seems to be playing video badly (don't know how else to describe it) whereas with IINA everything looks correct. For reference, I am on a 2021 MacBook Pro 16-in on Monterey 12.1.

VLC and IINA are clearly the premier video players for MacOS and are the most-used for a reason but they both just have some deal breaking bugs/issues, and they seem (according to tons of internet searches) to have been present for quite a while. Most recent progress is at the bottom.īefore anyone gets the wrong impression, I appreciate the work put in by both dev teams and obviously I couldn't do any better. The current mission is finding an HDR media player that has a usable UI, isn't exorbitantly priced, and has good picture quality. VLC tone mapping with HDR sucks, and there isn't really a solution, and IINA crashing is fixed in the nightly release and iina-plus, but the picture quality is oversaturated and the shadows lose all detail. *I struck through a majority of the original post, because those issues are no longer the ones I'm trying to deal with.