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In OS X 10.5's QuickTime Player, it was easy to control how quickly you could fast-forward or rewind a playing movie. There were, in fact, two ways to do so. Select Window -> Show A/V Controls, and you could then use the Jog Shuttle and Playback Speed features to control your movie's playback speed.
In Snow Leopard's QuickTime X, the A/V Control palette has gone missing (along with any number of additional user-friendly features). In its place, we have just the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons. Click once, and the speed changes to 2x; click again for 4x and then 8x. While this works, it's not nearly as flexible as the options offered in the A/V Control palette in Leopard—or at least, so it seems.
As discovered by Mac OS X Hints contributer ipearx, you can get better control over the fast-forward and rewind speeds. The secret is to hold down the Option key before clicking either the Fast Forward or Rewind button. With the Option key held down, the first speed you'll see will be 1.1x, and each subsequent click will increase the rate by .1x, up to a maximum of 8x.
While still not as flexible as the Leopard version—there's no job/shuttle controller, for instance—it's nice to have more control over playback speed. I've found I can watch a video at somewhere around 1.2x to 1.4x and still follow all the audio and video.
You might try using this technique to watch my recent Snow Leopard tips video, where I cover this tip and a handful of others. (I tend to repeat some of the more-useful video tips in these hints blogs, because not everyone watches the videos.)
- 5Manual installation
- 6Apple M1 (Apple Silicon, ARM64) systems
- 9Transcoding with SVPcode
To minimize installation problems please consider using at least macOS 10.14.6!
Compatible video players
- mpv 0.17 or later with Vapoursynth support
- Plex Media Player - requires libmpv built with Vapoursynth support
- IINA - requires libmpv built with Vapoursynth support
- VLC 2.2 or later
Installation
- Mount SVP 4 Mac DMG image
- Move 'SVP 4 Mac' icon into Applications
- Control key + double-click on Install mpv.command script to install all the stuff listed below and write default mpv.conf.
Note: you DON'T need to run this on every SVP update.
Updating
Updating SVP app:
- Download an updated DMG package
- Mount it and replace SVP 4 Mac.app in Applications
- That's it! You DON'T need to run Install mpv.command when updating SVP!
Updating mpv to the newer version: open Terminal and type
Uninstall
To remove SVP simply delete the SVP 4 Mac.app from Applications.
Additionally if you want to remove all the Homebrew packages including mpv video player run this command from the Terminal:
Timbuktu mac os. Note that it will remove EVERYTHING from Homebrew, not only mpv dependencies.
Manual installation
- Take OS X 10.11 'El Capitan' or later, preferably 10.14.6 'Mojave' or later.
- Install Homebrew:
Note that on Apple M1 systems this will install native ARM binaries into /opt/homebrew. You can either add /opt/homebrew/bin/ to your PATH, or call '/opt/homebrew/bin/brew' instead of simple 'brew' in the following commands.
- 10.11, 10.12 only: install Java:
- Install mpv (this will also automatically install Vapoursynth) (DO NOT install it via 'brew install --cask mpv' !):
Note: this step is essential even if you don't want to use mpv at all.
- It's recommended to install Intel Power Gadget for the SVP to be able to show real CPU frequency in the Performance Monitor.
Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient
In some cases Homebrew may ask for the additional command line tools installation. Type
and in the window opened press Install button.
Error: mpv can't start with 'Library not loaded: @rpath/libswiftAppKit.dylib'
macOS 10.14: install Swift 5 Runtime Support for Command Line Tools package: download
Apple M1 (Apple Silicon, ARM64) systems
SVP 4.5.205 and later supports both x86 (Intel) and native ARM video players. Native SVPflow libraries + mpv give ~50% performance improvement over x86 versions running via Rosetta 2.
Homebrew will install native ARM binaries in /opt/homebrew. Still you can install x86 binaries side-by-side in case you have any problem with the native ones.
Tell SVP which version to use
Open Application settings -> All settings, search for player and set main.setup.player to either /usr/local/bin/mpv (default path for x86 build) or /opt/homebrew/bin/mpv (default path for ARM build). Metro ninja mac os.
mpv configuration
SVP 4.5.205 and later supports both x86 (Intel) and native ARM video players. Native SVPflow libraries + mpv give ~50% performance improvement over x86 versions running via Rosetta 2.
Homebrew will install native ARM binaries in /opt/homebrew. Still you can install x86 binaries side-by-side in case you have any problem with the native ones.
Tell SVP which version to use
Open Application settings -> All settings, search for player and set main.setup.player to either /usr/local/bin/mpv (default path for x86 build) or /opt/homebrew/bin/mpv (default path for ARM build). Metro ninja mac os.
mpv configuration
Just add --input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpvsocket to mpv args (or config file, usually located in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf) and SVP should find it.
Alternatively you can 'open' video file via SVP - it'll launch mpv with the correct argument, assuming that mpv is actually installed either in $PATH or in /usr/local/bin (you can also define the actual path in SVP's settings - see main.setup.player and main.setup.player_args values).
Note: only 'copy-back' hardware video decoders are compatible with Vapoursynth filters, use --hwdec=auto-copy.
Playback Mac Os Catalina
Recommended minimal mpv.conf: Axefetchem mac os.
VLC configuration
SVP's plugin for VLC replaces the 'deinterlace' filter.
Install SVP's plugin via SVP main menu -> Utilities -> SVP in VLC.Then you'll be able to quickly 'install' and 'uninstall' SVP's plugin.
Playback Mac Os 11
You must turn on deinterlace in VLC via Video -> Deinterlace -> On to start using SVP's plugin.Alternatively you can turn it on permanently: Tools -> Preferences -> Video -> Deinterlacing = On
Transcoding with SVPcode
Muxing .MKV files
If the output format after transcoding is Matroska (.MKV) then it's highly recommended to additionally install mkvmerge command line tool (which is part of the MKVToolNix package):
Playback Macro
