Avg. VLC is an open source media player which supports playing audios, videos. Into problems like VLC not working on Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9/Yosemite 10.10,.

Ever since upgrading to OS X Yosemite on my Macbook Pro 13', VLC (2.1.5) will not play videos of any file type and often crashes when trying to do so. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing changed. Am I the only one having this problem? My problem is different - I get video, but no audio. Audio works in QuickTime, iTunes, Chrome (YouTube), and DVD Player. Audio was working in VLC before the upgrade. Now, nothing.

Also using V2.1.5 of VLC. Also MacBook Pro 13', mine is a 2010 machine.

Yeah, I'm seeing this as well after upgrading to Yosemite last night. A long (3-5 minutes) hang up before the video starts playing eventually. Every video I try, including ones that played fine before upgrading,that play fine in Quicktime player, and MPlayer Extended.

Once the pause is done, the videos do seem to play fine. Tried the latest 2.15, 1.1.12, 3.0 nightly build, 2.2 nightly build. All do the same thing.

Cleared caches, repaired permissions, deleted all the VLC prefs. Nothing helps.

Spoke to soon. While I can start playing the video after the long pause, all the controls don't work and the spinning beach ball shows up. EDIT 2: Reset the preferences a couple times from within the program (odd that deleting the preference files didn't seem to do that--where are you keeping the preferences?), and reopened it several times and it seems to be behaving itself now. EDIT 3: Nope. Doing it again.

My VLC player is constantly falling out of sync regarding the audio and video. I have to empty my system caches pretty much all day continously just to stop the stuttering not only in VLC but system wide.

I am talking with people in the Apple Support Forums who also have problems and it seems like Bluetooth is part of the problem, but also Safari. Whether or not I'm using my bluetooth headphones or not the video is --please stay polite-. Also when I exit VLC after the audio delay happens, sometimes almost as bad as 3 seconds out of sync, I get a weird ghost window of the main player window and the colors are messed up predominantly black where white should be.sorta like if you inverted the screens colors in that VLC window space. I am on a late 2012 iMac using nightly build 3.0.

This version actually improved things from the stable regular version of vlc. Anyone else having multiple problems with yosemite? I also never get email notifcations. The sync happens either after a 5 min period of viewing or if, god forbid, I open a single Safari page, either way it will start stuttering and falling out of sync with the video. I am talking with people in the Apple Support Forums who also have problems and it seems like Bluetooth is part of the problem, but also Safari.

Whether or not I'm using my bluetooth headphones or not the video is --please stay polite-. Also when I exit VLC after the audio delay happens, sometimes almost as bad as 3 seconds out of sync, I get a weird ghost window of the main player window and the colors are messed up predominantly black where white should be.sorta like if you inverted the screens colors in that VLC window space.

I am on a late 2012 iMac using nightly build 3.0. This version actually improved things from the stable regular version of vlc.

Anyone else having multiple problems with yosemite? I also never get email notifcations. The sync happens either after a 5 min period of viewing or if, god forbid, I open a single Safari page, either way it will start stuttering and falling out of sync with the video. Well, I have Bluetooth turned off, and never use Safari.

That may be why I'm not having that problem. I'm heading to bed, will try turning on Bluetooth, and using Safari while watching a video in the morning. If you're on an older Mac, maybe try this to see if your performance improves. System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display Check 'Reduce transparency'. With my 2011 iMac the widespread transparency causes higher cpu usage, window animation is choppy, and even dragging / resizing windows is laggy.