Previous devices are supported by older releases. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs. Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC for Mac audio support. With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC for macOS. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC Media Player for Mac (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.