VLC 3.0.21 compatibility with M-chip macOS Sequoia

Try the "vlc-3.0.21-arm64.dmg" download instead.

It wasn’t you. I clicked download on my M4 Pro and it gave me the Intel version. I had to manually select the Apple Silicon download.

This one says Apple silicon

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Are you using a VPN or some other service that could be stripping personal data from your interface with web sites? ? With my M4 mini running Sequoia and Firefox, going to the VLC download page automatically presents me with the Silicon version of the application.

dubwisedude wrote:

Thanks for the tip. Exactly which browser settings do I need to check?

Don't go chasing rabbits. There's nothing you need to check. The VLC website is just poorly coded and the VLC app itself is poorly made. They could have simply listed the two different versions and allowed people to click on the correct one instead of trying to guess and then guessing wrong. (It offers Intel for my M2 MacBook Air.)

Or, even better, they could just do like practically every other developer has done and build a universal binary so users wouldn't have this problem. You can't fix other people's screw ups.

It could depend upon your browser and privacy features you select. I believe that typically a web site can ask your browser about your hardware which is why for me it just presented the silicon version automatically (I could easily have selected any of the other platforms presented as icons underneath). Perhaps your browser isn't reporting the full information.