Fig Player - play mp4 mkv mp3 for macOS

Description

It opens mkv. It opens mp4. It handles a dozen other video formats without complaint. That alone explains why a help-desk Mac often ends up with Fig Player sitting in the dock.

Play awkward files without a codec hunt

mkv, avi, wmv, webm — Fig Player just plays them. No extra plugins, no searching forums for a codec pack. The same goes for audio: mp3, flac, ogg, opus, and more work first time.

Watch a video while you do something else

Picture-in-picture keeps a floating window on top of other apps. You can also open multiple windows and play two or three videos side by side, each routed to a different audio device if you like.

Grab text straight from the screen

On macOS 12 and later, built-in OCR lets you select and copy text that appears in a video frame. Handy when a tutorial flashes a command or a presentation shows a URL you need.

Hit J, K, L for rewind, pause, and fast-forward. The spacebar works too, but those three keys keep your hand in one spot. ← and → step by five seconds; hold Shift with them to jump by one minute instead.

Right-click the playback window to save a frame as a scene poster — useful when you are skimming hours of footage and need to mark a moment without opening a separate screenshot tool. The poster lands on your desktop as a png.

Play a video with translated subtitles, from scratch

Say you have an mkv with embedded English subtitles, but you need simplified Chinese. Fig Player handles this without extra conversion.

1. Open the file. The embedded subtitle track loads automatically.
2. Go to the subtitle menu and pick OCR (Live Caption) — this requires macOS 12 or later.
3. Select the target language from the OCR panel. Let it run for a few seconds while the first lines appear.
4. If the timing drifts, use the subtitle delay slider (Ctrl+Shift+← or →) to nudge it back into sync.
5. For a clean archive, export the recognised text as a new srt. Drop it alongside the video file for next time.

Keyboard shortcuts cut through most of this. V toggles subtitles on and off. Alt+S cycles through available subtitle tracks. You can adjust audio device output with Alt+A — useful when you are casting to a DLNA display but want sound through wired headphones.

Requirements

• macOS 11 or later
• Intel 64-bit