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Unofficial third-party builds from unknown github accounts; I think that you are really brave if you installed it.

And the first party ones available there are for testing, with missing features :/

We do not have this kind of problems with VLC.

Did you miss the github builds or just discounting them?

What happened to downloading an installer from the official website? Are we sending grandma to GitHub now?

Things are complicated. As a policy, I wouldn’t want to encourage grandma to be going to any web site to download software. Grandma should probably stick to the App Store. And personally, I would way rather install github builds than downloads from ‘official’/independently maintained web sites. Especially in the case of free / open source projects, sometimes cash constrained. Security is hard.

I’m not super knowledgeable about modern video players- I do like Infuse, which is in the App Store.

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