When comparing The Unarchiver vs IINA, the Slant community recommends The Unarchiver for most people. In the question“What are the best Mac OSX apps for someone that's new to Apple?” The Unarchiver is ranked 1st while IINA is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose The Unarchiver is:
The app can be set up to work just as the built-in Archive Utility OSX comes with so that archives are extracted by a simple double-click.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Excellent Finder integration
The app can be set up to work just as the built-in Archive Utility OSX comes with so that archives are extracted by a simple double-click.
Pro Like MPV with better GUI and settings
It's like mpv, just more user friendly GUI and more settings available via UI.
Pro Extremely stable
Extremely stable, even while still in the beta.
Pro Support for lots of codecs
Supports lots of video codecs, like mp4, mkv, etc, and lots of audio codecs including opus.
Pro Doesn't black out other displays when going full screen
It can black out other screens if you want, but out of the box it leaves your other displays alone.
Pro Runs on MPV so it's scriptable and runs any MPV script.
More information here.
Tip: if you're doing a lot of cropping and slicing of videos and you thought the new quick tools in Finder / Quicktime Player are a great improvement, try setting up IINA with slicing.lua and some keybindings for navigating your video + setting the slicing positions.
Make sure your ffmpeg command (in slicing.lua) is set to copy the original codecs and that it's using your GPU.
Pro Online subtitle searching and intelligent local subtitle matching
Pro Fully customizable keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and gesture controls
Pro Open source
Pro Powered by FFmpeg
Cons
Con Lacks RAR5 support
RAR 5.0 format introduced in 2013 uses a new compression algorithm that is not compatible with previous versions of the format. As such, all software needs to be updated to include support for RAR 5.0 and The Unarchiver has not yet added it.
Con Unstable
May crash unexpectedly, while clicking on something in the subtitles section in the right-hand panel, for example.