Preferred Video Player not working on Mac - Big Sur M1 MBP

[monkinwonderland]

For some reason selecting a preferred video player will not work on a new M1 Mac running Big Sur.

Only the system default will play video from the app, otherwise you can press on a video and it will do nothing if you select a preferred video player.

Any idea how to fix this?

[whyboris]

Which player are you trying to add? Currently only VLC is supported on Mac.

[monkinwonderland]

Hi Boris, I've tried VLC, but that doesn't seem to work too.

[whyboris]

Thank you for checking VLC. I just checked on my mac (Catalina, old Intel chip) - when I set VLC to be the "Preferred video player" in VHA and click on a file, no file opens!

Mac must have changed something again :trollface: working with Mac is a pain -- I had to hack my way to get even VLC to work with "preferred video player".

I'll try around to see if I can get it to work again before releasing 3.1.0 (planned for 3rd year anniversary of the app - February 20th). Thank you for reporting the bug!

[monkinwonderland]

Cheers Boris, great work with the app, hopefully a fix can be made easily!

[whyboris]

@monkinwonderland -- I think when I was checking on the Mac I had the non-Mac code running (the toggle I have in my code that makes the close buttons look like Mac or Windows also affects whether VLC path gets rewritten). Basically -- I tested again today: VHA works on my Mac with VLC correctly ✅

But I will try to get a hold of the M1 Mac this year sometime and figure out what the problem there is 🤞