Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume, and device management, to improve VLC for Mac audio support. VLC for macOS 2.1 is a significant update, with a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, porting to handheld devices, readiness for Ultra-HD recording, and extra care taken to accommodate further formats.
On a high-bandwidth network, it can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6. VLC Media Player for Mac (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a lightweight multimedia player that supports a wide range of audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various video streaming media protocols.
