Elmedia Player
Best media player for macOS

A full-package media player for Mac with advanced streaming capabilities. Elmedia Player supports virtually any video & audio file and can stream via AirPlay and Chromecast and to DLNA-enabled devices. A perfect player for the latest MacOS Big Sur. No external codecs needed.

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More than 2 million users worldwide!
Over 12 years of development.

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Best Mac media player for any format

Our free media player for macOS supports a wide range of common and not so common audio & video formats, including FLV, SWF, WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MP3, DAT, FLAC, M4V, MPG, MKV and Blu-ray unencrypted discs. It can play virtually any media file. Elmedia Player provides a perfect HD experience thanks to hardware accelerated decoding, using the processor to help avoid common problems like video slowdowns and unsynchronized sound.

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Make your own playlists

Want to binge watch or listen to all your favorite tracks without having to open every file? Easy! Just throw all the files into Elmedia Player to build your own unique playlist and enjoy it non-stop.

Full control over playback

Adjust the playback speed on the go, set subtitles or audio delay to fix any out-of-sync issues, navigate through videos frame-by-frame, resume playback from where you left off, bookmark your favorite video moments.

Media player Mac streaming

Stream your local files to Chromecast, AirPlay and DLNA-enabled devices

With our media player installed on your Mac you can stream local files to Chromecast, Apple TV, any Smart TV and other AirPlay and DLNA-enabled devices. Elmedia Player can also act as an audio AirPlay receiver, which comes in handy when you need to stream audio from your phone to a Mac connected to a sound system.

Apple TV
and other AirPlay devices

Stream content from Elmedia Player to AirPlay devices including Apple TV natively, and Mac computers which have Elmedia Player installed.

Smart TV
and other DLNA devices

With our DLNA media player for Mac you can easily cast various types of media wirelessly from your Mac to any DLNA-enabled devices like Smart TV in your home network.

Media player for Mac
and Chromecast

Cast local and online files to your TV with Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra directly from your computer.

Every format is supported

Stream audio and video in their native formats or transcoded in real time. AVI, FLV, MKV, 3GP are just some of the many formats that are supported.

Stream online videos without ads

For a completely ad-free experience, use the Open Online Video option to stream content from YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo.

Ultra HD Videos

Stream up to 4K videos to compatible devices like Chromecast Ultra, Apple TV 4K, Smart TV (Samsung , LG, Sony, Panasonic, etc.).

Stream with subtitles

If a video you are casting has subtitles, they can be streamed as well. Elmedia supports embedded as well as external subtitles.

Stream playlists

Create your own unique and personalised playlists for an uninterrupted, ad-free watching on your larger screen!

Control streaming in the player

While streaming from Elmedia you can play, pause, scrub through the video and adjust the volume directly in the app.

Manage subtitles

Media player for Mac with advanced subtitles support

Elmedia Player allows you to customize the look of subtitles in various ways and will let you either load them automatically or manually (.srt, .ass, .smil and more are supported). In case subtitles are not in perfect sync with original video, you can increase or decrease their delay until they run smoothly along with the video plot.

Appearance

Customize the font, size, text and background colour of your subtitles.
Autoload

Load the subtitle files automatically and choose a preferred language.
Online search

We have built the search through opensubtitles.org service into Elmedia Player, so you can find any in a couple of clicks and use them for your favorite movies.

Advanced Mac media player

Enjoy every moment. Get the most out of your video and audio files.

The only Flash player for Mac

While playing SWF files you can choose the default quality and manage local Flash security settings. Choose what data is sent and received over the web.

Video tuner

Control the brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma, hue, noise reduction and sharpness of a currently playing video.

Touch Bar support

Customizable Touch Bar support for Macbook Pros. Use the Touch Bar to easily play, pause, scrub through the timeline etc of your media - or add any controls you want!

Screenshots

Take a screenshot of favorite movie moments or convert a whole movie into series of screenshots,all while it is playing!

Continuous loop

Choose any part of a video to play continuously until you decide to stop it.

Deinterlacing

Say goodbye to those irritating horizontal lines on fast moving objects - enable the deinterlace option in Elmedia.

Fine-tune audio delay

Audio out of sync? No problem! Elmedia can increase or decrease the audio delay, allowing you to fine-tune the experience and match the sound with the on-screen action.

Progressive full-screen mode

You get to choose which monitor will play full-screen if you have more than one connected to your computer. Native macOS full-screen mode is supported.

Best sound with media player Mac

Get the quality of your audio sound to a new level

Native volume control

A volume control that does not affect the system volume.

Support for external tracks

Elmedia Player has the possibility to load external soundtracks, autoloading those in the same folder and allowing manual selection of audio files located elsewhere.

AC-3/DTS through S/PDIF

Enable passthrough for hardware decoders – AC3 or DTS for surround audio.

Audio equalizer

A 10-band equalizer with lots of presets lets you create the perfect sound for the best experience possible.

Open Online video

Watch online videos without ads

Open Online Video allows you to access YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion videos directly from the app. This way you get to watch favorite videos without ads, which you would otherwise have to watch through or wait to skip. We love this! - Combined with the option to create unique playlists, its ideal for those binge watching marathons or creating that perfect playlist for the party!

Download online videos

Saving videos to your hard drive with Elmedia is easy: switch to the browser mode, find the video you’d like to save and hitDownload – make sure to choose the right download format. Subtitles, if present in YouTube videos will be downloaded together with the video. You can save a complete playlist off YouTube and when downloading SWF files, you can save external resources too.

Extract audio from YouTube videos

Need just the audio from a Youtube Video? Elmedia Player has you covered!Instead of downloading an entire video, save your time and disk space by extracting audio in MP3, M4A or other supported format.

Elmedia Player tips & tricks

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What others say about Elmedia

Elmedia Player is easy to use and takes much of the guesswork out of playing back videos of just about any format you can imagine. Read more

Mike Breed 4.8

Elmedia Player for Mac is a comprehensive solution for playing all kinds of videos and other media files on your Mac without having to convert them. Read more

Ben Markton 4.8

Plays all my video files swimmingly. Downloading streaming videos is pleasant bonus of the PRO version. Read more

Javier 4.8

It's a media player for Mac, which boasts a huge range of codecs. All of the features of this program are easily accessible through the app's streamlined interface. Read more

Terry Conord 4.8

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Elmedia Player

Universal video player for Mac

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