However, there is no official solution as of now. CPU load seems to be about the same or even higher than on the 3.0.11.1 x86 version via Rosetta Pressing escape while watching a video in full screen resulted in kernel panic crash and hard reboot of the macbook once (the first and only time i have ever had a crash on this machine) Closing VLC from dock often reports a failure and the program crashes Version 3.0.12 VLC added support for M1 Mac, but problems also followĪfter using VLC on the new M1 Mac for a very short time, there are some complaints from users: Undesirables and Inconveniences of VLC Media Player for Macįunctional Inconveniences of VLC Media Player for Mac: The high-ranking status of VLC Mac is indeed trembling. But, as IT industry develops, many burgeoning media players like KMPlayer, 5KPlayer, Potplayer, Divxplayer for Mac now can also reach the height of same capability. VLC media player for Mac has enjoyed a long time reputation for its great video playing function including playing HD/UHD/4K/5K videos, supporting almost all file formats, streaming, downloading and files conversion.