Media Player Classic Alternatives

Media Player Classic is described as 'Was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support and built-in' and is a leading Media Player in the video & movies category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Media Player Classic for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Media Player Classic alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Media Player Classic are MPC-HC, MPV, PotPlayer and SMPlayer.

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  1. Switch Player icon
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    Switch allows you to play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file and export a new file.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. ALLPlayer icon
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    ALLPlayer is a freeware with modern and intuitive interface, known more from smartphones and tablets.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Movist icon
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    Movist is a movie player for Mac OS based on QuickTime & FFmpeg.

    A Simple and clean interface and high codec compatibility make this a real challenger to VLC.

    91 Movist alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    MPlayer OSX Extended is the future of MPlayer OSX. Leveraging the power of the MPlayer and FFmpeg open source projects, MPlayer OSX Extended aims to deliver a powerful, functional and no frills video player for OSX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MPlayer
     
  5. nPlayer icon
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    nPlayer provides high quality video play performance and easy control-UI supporting almost all kinds of video formats and codecs without file converting efforts.

    199 nPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • nPlayer is the most popular commercial alternative to Media Player Classic.

    • nPlayer is Paid and ProprietaryMedia Player Classic is Free and Open Source
  6. Cantata icon
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    A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
     
  7. Elmedia Player icon
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    Elmedia is a free media player for Mac that supports various video and audio formats, including FLV, SWF, MP4, AVI, MOV, MP4, DAT, MP3, etc. The app features exclusive Open Online Video feature which lets you watch YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion videos online without ads.

    158 Elmedia Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Apple TV
     
  8. TKPlayer icon
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    Thanks to the self-contained codecs, TKPlayer for Windows is capable of playing all media files instantly without requiring you installing additional decoders on PC. As one of the best media player freeware, it's able to play all popular video and audio formats in high...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. MPlayerX icon
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    MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X.

    95 MPlayerX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MPlayer
     
  10. 5KPlayer icon
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    5KPlayer is a new-style free media player for Mac OS as all-in-one HD video/music player, AirPlay streamer and free online video/music downloader. It plays 4K/5K, MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, YouTube video, MP3 music & DVD on Mac flawlessly.

    197 5KPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Movies & TV icon
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    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.

    265 Movies & TV alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
    • Xbox
     
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