Minimalist media player using GStreamer for multimedia support and GTK for UI, supporting multiple formats on Linux and macOS. Offers subtitle and audio track switching, playback controls, and fullscreen mode.
MPC-HC Alternatives for Linux
MPC-HC is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to MPC-HC and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to MPC-HC are MPV, SMPlayer, MPlayer and Celluloid.
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13 GridPlayer alternativesSimple VLC-based video player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them).
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An mpc-like control interface for mpv with a nearly complete compatibility layer for mpc commands in addition to GNU style arguments. This forks lwillets/mpvc providing some extra goodies such as: improved CLI, TUI, FZF & playing media from YouTube & streaming services.
115 1by1 alternatives1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need to fuddle with playlists or media databases.
All-in-One video player based on mpv that can play videos from Youtube, Bilibili etc. as well as local videos.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AppImageHub
- Flatpak
- Flathub
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Parole is a media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework.
55 EcoTubeHQ alternativesEcoTubeHQ Video Player offers high quality video playback for many DRM-free streaming services at minimal bitrates. Hardware acceleration is utilised where possible during video playback to optimize quality and minimize CPU usage.
84 Dragon Player alternativesDragon Player does one thing, and only one thing, which is playing multimedia files. Its simple interface is designed not to get in your way and instead empowers you to simply play multimedia files.
Media player based on Mplayer/FFmpeg technologies. It has a simple interface and many powerful functions:
- Possibility to get an audio track from video clip
- Possibility to get a screencast
- Possibility to trim video
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
A GTK+2 interface to MPlayer. The power of MPlayer combined with a friendly interface for your desktop; You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- MPlayer
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