MPV Alternatives and Similar Software

Alternatives to MPV for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to MPV.

MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. If your looking for more info about MPV like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 4/14/2019 4:40:00 PM

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VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Features Simple, fast and powerful media player. Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Windows S Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV PortableApps.com Kindle Fire Haiku Xbox
Lightweight Support for subtitles Automatic subtitles download Built-in Media converter ... Integrated codecs Replay Gain 360 Videos Ad-free Audio Recording Sync Audio & Video Automatic conversion to multiple formats Automatic Tagging Built-in subtitle search Create PlayList Customizable Google Drive integration In built video player Internet Radio Low memory usage Multiple languages Media Streaming Music Library Network Traffic Obfuscation Playlists management Portable Resume video after shutdown Scripting language Subtitle Effects for Custom Fonts Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Add a feature

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MPC-HC

MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. The tool was developed by mpc-hc.org until July 2017, when it announced its last release due to lack of active developers. The project has been forked by one of the former co-devs, clsid2, that continued the development with new releases since early 2018. Lightweight Watch movies on any SSE2 CPU, even on your old computer back from 2000.

Free Open Source Windows
Lightweight Support for 4K Audio Recording Apps with Chromecast Support ... Codec Tweak Tool Customizable Media Streaming Support for subtitles Supports H265 Codec Add a feature

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PotPlayer

Potplayer is a minimalist media player that has an extensive range of configurable options to choose from and lots of functionality. The application supports Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, and countless other media formats. It can be configured to work with various devices such as TV or HDTV, and supports Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode and Overlay. Other features: - You can take snapshots of the media you are viewing and save as a JPEG file.

Free Windows
Skinnable Support for subtitles Built-in subtitle search Customizable ... Minimalistic Support for 4K A-B repeat Ad-free Automatic subtitles download Bookmarks that appear on the seek bar Capture image from video Integrated codecs Support for CUDA acceleration Gapless Playback Lightweight Live Looping Matroska Portable Support for Intel Quick Sync acceleration Skin Randomization Add a feature

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Winamp

Winamp is a media player for Windows and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to Radionomy in January 2014. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.

Freemium Windows
Crossfading Music Library Shoutcast streaming Android Sync ... Audio Analysis Automatic Tagging Built-in themes Integrated Web Browser Internet Radio iPhone/iPod sync Mix Music Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skin customization Visualize Music Add a feature

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SMPlayer

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... dont worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
- SMPlayer covers the drawback of MPV, that is to say, it is a GUI for MPV. nopenope • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD mpv PortableApps.com ... Haiku MPlayer
Lightweight Customizable 3D Support Ad-free ... Built-in subtitle search Apps with Chromecast Support Integrated codecs Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple languages Portable Secondary Subtitle Support for subtitles UI customization Listen Youtube in background Youtube support Add a feature

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Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic 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 MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec. What is the difference Media Player Classic and Media Player Classic Home Cinema? Media Player Classic was developed by Gabest while the https://alternativeto .
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. The currently active fork is https://alternativeto.net/software/mpc-hc/ . Latest version, 6.4.9.1, released in April 2011, can be still downloaded from FreeCodec.com
Free Open Source Windows
Support for subtitles Add a feature

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MPC-BE

MPC-BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. MPC-BE is based on the original Guliverkli project and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project, contains additional features and bug fixes.

Free Open Source Windows
Integrated Youtube support Night mode/Dark Theme Portable Add a feature

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MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD AmigaOS ... Xfce MorphOS
Integrated codecs Command line interface Add a feature

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KMPlayer

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as TS (also from Technisat Digicorder), VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. For playing TS-movies from the Technisat Digicorder you need the KMPlayer.
- Bundleware Be careful during installation. https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Support for Batch Mode Add a feature

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Windows Media Player

The media player provided pre-installed with all modern Windows versions (7 and higher): Windows Media Player 12 plays more music and video than ever, including Flip Video and unprotected songs from your iTunes library! Organize your digital media collection, sync digital media files to a portable device, shop online for digital media content, and more.

Free Windows
Music Library Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Bundled with Windows Add a feature

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IINA

INA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to user interface. It adopts the post-Yosemite design language and keeps up the pace of new technologies like Force Touch, Touch Bar and Picture-in-Picture. Revolutionary user experience. IINA simplified a lot of user interactions. In addition of traditional cascaded menus, it prefer using interactive UI components and gestures to give you intuitive, flexible and powerful control of the playback. Powerful functionality.

Free Open Source Mac
Automatic subtitles download Lightweight Automatic conversion to multiple formats Behaves like a Mac app should ... Built-in themes Clean design Live Preview Media Streaming Picture in Picture Play web video Support for subtitles Add a feature

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GOM Media Player

GOM Media Player (Gretech Online Movie Player) is a freeware media player. Key strengths are the ability to play the majority of media files without the need to obtain a codec, and the ability to play some broken media files, both advantages over traditional players, like Windows Media Player. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF.
- Bundleware The installer contains additional bloatware that can hijack your browser's settings. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad
Integrated codecs Skinnable Support for subtitles Add a feature

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SmoothVideo Project

SVP allows you to watch any video on your PC file with frame interpolation (like you can watch it on high-end TVs and projectors). It increases frame rate by generating intermediate animation frames between existing ones to produce very smooth, fluid and clear motion. The technology is well-known for a while ("TrimensionDNM", "Motion Plus", "Motionflow" and others), but now it's available for free to PC users with simple GUI and just a couple of mouse clicks.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

25 Like
bomi

bomi is a multimedia player aiming for easy usage but also providing various powerful features and convenience functions - User-friendly interface -- bomi provides a easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI). You can find all features in the context menu. All configurations can be done in a preferences dialog. - Unlimited playback history -- bomi records all playback history by default and provdes the way to resume playback later.
- Discontinued Stagnant on v0.9.11 since 2015. Latest commit 90f18ff on Aug 12, 2016. See https://github.com/xylosper/bomi
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Hardware Accelerated Portable Add a feature

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QuickTime Player

Use QuickTime to watch videos or personal media clips. QuickTime lets you record part of the screen, it’s perfect for creating a video tutorial of an application. With QuickTime you can trim the length of video clips or combine multiple clips into a single movie. Simply drag the clips you want into a movie window — QuickTime automatically scales or crops them so they match the dimensions of the movie.

Free Mac
Audio Recording Record videos Add a feature

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MPlayerX

MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X. MPlayerX is armed by FFmpeg and MPlayer, which means it could handle any media format in the world without extra plug-ins or codec packages. Additionally, MPlayerX is inspired by QuickTime Player, with a black interface and in-frame minimal controls. All of this helps users to focus on the contents, rather than software itself.
- Discontinued Installer contains possible malware: https://www.symantec.com/security_response/attacksignatures/detail.jsp?asid=29897
- Warning MPlayerX has been bundled with malwares, including adware. See the VirusTotal scan results at https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6f1e9d7dc6b52af887b5e1bee6e0d0366345fb53c752ca23b98a9cf9b647fd49/analysis/1441451188/
Free Open Source Mac MPlayer
macOS-like MultiTouch Support for Multiple Monitors Support for subtitles Add a feature

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Celluloid

Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. Celluloid interacts with mpv via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities. Celluloid interacts with MPV via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities. Celluloid can be configured using the preferences dialog accessible via the "Preferences" menu item.

Free Open Source Linux mpv
No features added Add a feature

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RealPlayer

RealPlayer with RealTimes (aka “RealPlayer” for short) still includes the legacy features, such as Video Player, Downloader, Converter, Organizer and Web Videos. It also includes RealTimes features, such as Photos and RealTimes Stories, the automatic video collage feature. RealPlayer premium features continue to be DVD Playback, DVD & CD Burning and Music Cleaner.

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad Kindle Fire
Support AirPlay Apps with Chromecast Support Cloud sync Support for DLNA ... Multiple languages Photographic filters Photo Organization Add a feature

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Movist

A Mac media player based on QuickTime and FFMpeg, Open source under the GPLv3 and hosted on Google Code. A Simple and clean interface and high codec compatibility make this a real challenger to VLC.

Free Open Source Mac
No features added Add a feature

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Mochi-Player

Mochi-Player (formerly Baka Mplayer) is a free and open source, cross-platform, libmpv based multimedia player. Its simple design reflects the idea for an uncluttered, simple, and enjoyable environment for watching tv shows. Features - Gesture seeking. - Smart playlist. - Dim Desktop. - Hardware accelerated playback (vdpau, vaapi, vda). - Youtube playback support (and others). - Multilingual support. - And more...

Free Open Source Windows Linux mpv
Multiple languages Add a feature

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5KPlayer

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. 5KPlayer also supports Apple's AirPlay tech which allows you to stream media from iPad, iPhone to Mac or from Mac to Apple TV. Moreover, with 5KPlayer, you can free download video music from YouTube, FaceBook, etc

Free Mac Windows
Support for 4K Play 4k video Supports H265 Codec Add a feature

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ExMplayer

Play any media files,convert,extract,animate and more...Official page of ExMplayer Play any files with out any codec,199 audio and 416 video built-in external codecs.So ExMplayer can play any media format.Supports network streaming and subtitles. Want to convert audio file ? here is it easy to use audio converter.ExMplayer audio converter supports more than 10 different audio file format conversions. Do you want to extract audio from video files? Hmm...
- Discontinued Latest commit 1ccb1ac on Jul 30, 2015. See https://github.com/rupeshs/ExMplayer
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Audio Extraction Portable Add a feature

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QMPlay2

QMPlay2 is a video and audio player. It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and Prostopleer browser.
- It works with FFmpeg rather than a fork of it. It has a very nice play list which is easily updated. Its very efficient regarding cpu/gpu usage compared to other players I have used. You can watch Youtube videos with it. Guest • Dec 2017
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Support for CUDA acceleration Playlists management Add a feature

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QtAV

QtAV is a multimedia playback library based on Qt and FFmpeg. It can help you to write a player with less effort than ever before.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Windows Phone
Support for CUDA acceleration QT Based Add a feature

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niceplayer

This program aims to be a multi-engine (Include of Perian Project) player designed for playing movies nicely for a person who likes to watch or present movies on their computer (such as the casual viewer or the video artist). This program features full screen or border-less floating windows, convenient controls for scrubbing or queuing movies, and on the fly playlist creation.
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.98, released in April 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Free Open Source Mac
Integrated codecs Add a feature

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