How to Play All Videos in a Folder on Mac OS with a Playlist and VLC

How to Play All Videos in a Folder on Mac OS with a Playlist and VLC

If youre a Mac user with a lot of video files and movies, you may wonder how you can play multiple video files one after another in a playlist. While the native Quicktime app is a great media player, it doesnt offer a playlist capability, so if you want to play all videos from a folder on the Mac you will need to rely on a different app. There are a few options for playing multiple video files from a folder or some other movie collection, including even using iTunes, but perhaps the best option for most Mac users is VLC, a free third party app that is also a bit of a swiss army knife of media playing, not to mention cross platform compatible, and arguably . You can drag an entire folder of videos or movies into VLC to create a playlist, otherwise choose a collection of movies to play by and dragging those into the media player app. While this applies to the Mac, you can accomplish the same sequential video playlist on iPhone and iPad by , which also plays a wide variety of video formats and types. And since VLC is cross platform compatible, you can also setup the same playlists the same way on a Windows PC, Android, or linux machine too. As mentioned before, you can also create a new playlist in iTunes and play multiple video files that way, but VLC is a better choice for many users because VLC has a very broad range of media file compatibility and is able to play MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, amongst many other video file formats. If you know of another (or better) approach to playing multiple video files in a playlist on the Mac, let us know in the comments below!