Cinema Alternatives

Cinema is described as 'A video player for watching and managing local video files' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cinema for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Flathub and F-Droid apps. The best Cinema alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cinema are MPV, Windows Media Player, GNOME Videos and Movies & TV.

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  1. VLC Media Player icon

    VLC Media Player

     7717 likes

    Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.

    168 VLC Media Player alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • iPad
    • AppImageHub
    • Apple Watch
    • Snapcraft
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple TV
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Haiku
    • Android TV
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  2. MPV icon

    MPV

     556 likes

    Versatile audio and video player featuring support for a wide range of formats, audio and video codecs, subtitle types, hardware acceleration via GPU, OpenGL output with high-quality scaling, on-screen controls, and embeddable C API for integration into applications.

    115 MPV alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
    • Chocolatey
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  4. Windows Media Player icon

    Windows Media Player

     264 likes

    Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    223 Windows Media Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. Movies & TV icon

    Movies & TV

     3 likes

    Movies & TV (Canada and the US) or Films & TV (UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), previously Xbox Video and Zune Video, is the default video player of Windows 10 and Xbox One.

    266 Movies & TV alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
    • Xbox
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  7. MPV-EASY Player icon

    MPV-EASY Player

     8 likes

    MPV-EASY Player is a movie player based on MPV .It comes with an easy-to-use interface, you can quickly adjust many parameters, carefully adjusted default settings will be able to stimulate all the performance of the MPV player, so that...

    86 MPV-EASY Player alternatives

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    • Windows
    • mpv
    Main UI
     
  9. Pretty Good Music Player icon

    Pretty Good Music Player

     4 likes

    Tired of music players that take forever to start up because they're loading ads or trying to download stuff? Of music players that ignore Bluetooth controls, or stop responding after a few minutes? I was too, so I wrote this app!

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  10. xine icon

    xine

     3 likes

    xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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    Movie Monad

     1 like

    A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  13. Clip (Maui Applications) icon

    Clip (Maui Applications)

     1 like

    Clip is a convergent video player and collection manager utilizing MPV as the backend. By using MPV, you can also play remote videos by entering the URL besides local videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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