What's the best software for view movies on mac?

VLC Media Player will play just about anything you can throw at it. It can also convert files and stream over a network!

Yea, VLC is great

Another vote for VLC here. It’s far superior to any other video players in terms of codec and memory usage.

VLC

If you had asked this question for windows, I would have also said VLC. I’ve never heard of GOMPlayer.

VLC. Again.

I also like the beta of Plex, formerly XBMC for Mac.

OMG! VLC is the biggest winner here!
I found VLC a little hard to use with remote controller. Does VLC support subtitles?

Yea VLC supports subtitles. I think it’s in the audio menu. You can turn subtitles on or off, or select a different language file if it’s included. You can also switch audio channels. A movie might come both dubbed and not dubbed but your regular movie viewers will only let you play the default audio channel.

I haven’t tried Plex but the XBMC player for mac was a little bloated for my taste. VLC is so much easier. I do however have an xbox on the network that I use to play movies off a file share and XBMC works great on that.

I use VLC on Windows and Linux. But it looks like you’ve already tried it. Hope it goes well, it’s a good program :)

VLC is great, however Quicktime with Perian gives better integration with OS X. I use both.

Yes, but Quicktime does not full screen.

Quicktime does do fullscreen. When something is playing hold down <command> and press <F>
Or go <view> <fullscreen>

I think Fullscreen used to be a Pro feature, as I had to use Go Go Quicktime until joey pointed that out… Nice find.

QuickTime does fullscreen a lot better than VLC, QT animates it!

Quicktime with the Perian extension. VLC blows, buggy, crash happy junk.

I don’t know when the last time you used VLC but I’ve viewed videos in lots of different formats both locally and over the network and I have never had the VLC 0.8.6 (current version) crash on me.

VLC is great, but… well it’s cross-platform, and that don’t give the developers what they need to get it mac friendly. It might work great for some users, but Quicktime is made by mac people, and for mac people. It’s integrated with the system and it just gives a better user experience. Don’t get me wrong here, i love vlc and i use it a lot, but when i can, i use QuickTime. (And i can most of the times because of perian)

I will say thanks to you guys. I’ve not heard of Perian before this thread. I’ll be downloading it today.

aye, perian is ace. Also check out flip4mac for playing WMV files in QT.

Miro ftw! link
vlc is great too

Miro looks cool, but does it play all formats like vlc or perian does?

it has worked fine for me with every ‘regular’ format you can come across… it won’t play .rmvb though, but i think neither does vlc.