It’s hard to place the immensely popular and cross-platform VLC Media Player at any spot other than first. So here, we take a look at the best video players specifically for Mac OS X, and rank them in the order that we feel they deserve your attention. Granted, you have VLC on Mac, but the major players from Microsoft’s ecosystem don’t really exist in OS X otherwise. With Mac, the list is considerably different. With Windows, it’s easier to identify the best video players, because you have choices like Media Player Classic, VLC.