MPV
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Haiku
- Xfce
- Chocolatey
- OpenAPK
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F-Droid is an awesome app repository for FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) android apps. From productivity apps to games, f-droid has (almost) everything you need.
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REPOSITORIES :
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Health / 7 subcategories
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DISCLAIMERS :
Adding custom repo might not be as secure as the official one so I'm not responsable if you encounter any problems with them ! I encourage you to do your own research about it !
Also while open source is great for privacy and security it is not perfect. So keep that in mind before downloading any apps.
Most apps that I've listed are privacy friendly but some might be not be perfectly private and secure. I again encourage you to do your own research about them.
I am not a privacy and security expert. I'm also don't consider myself as a developper so I do not have any technical knowledge and so I didn't look into any source code of any apps in this list !
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Easiest to use apps that do something very useful
When I look for new apps, my priorities are (in order):
do they do something useful?
do they aim to do it in a way that protects my privacy?
are they trustworthy?
Fewer apps than I would like do all three of these things. Fewer still could I recommend to other, less technical users. But some are out there that do all of this and I think people should know about them. So here they are.
Comment below if you want me to recommend an app that does something I haven't mentioned yet. I'll do my best.
Windows
I use these software on my Windows 10 Systems
What is MPV?
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Comments and Reviews
Simple, Clean, Lightweight and plays video files other players cant probably due to corrupt headers, I Frames, etc... highly recommended
Kind of meme app. Maybe there are some interesting features, but as a video player program is completely useless. Bare bone GUI, with only seekbar, volume control and full screen toggle. Any configuration options are available only from command line or config file. In VIDEO PLAYER! And in many situations you need to configure mpv due to problems with hardware acceleration or blurry scaling or inconsistent framerate (ech linux and Wayland) or tearing (Wayland once again ). In my case, on linux, mpv show over-warm yellowish image for every video file. Want to fix it? Welcome to few hundred pages manual! Pass. As I mentioned before, it is kind of meme app, like those command line web browsers.
Just because you don't know how to use it, it doesn't make it a "meme app."
It's based on MPlayer, one of the most reliable and well-known open-source video players.
If you need something that works decent out of the box, try VLC. If you want more customizability, try SMPlayer.
GUI on PC is a thing at least from 1995, and even before there was Amiga, Mac, heck, even Commodore64 had alternative GUI OS. Just because linux users haven't a clue how to create GUI app doesn't make meme app less meme, and it's freaking video player, last type of programs that should be cli based.
Yes the default GUI is bare bones as is the player itself, but its enough for basic usage and the player is lightweight and lightning fast, unlike VLC. There are other OSCs (GUI skins) that make it more user friendly (uosc is nice). Config in text file is prehistoric. But you can do it! I'm rooting for you for you and there is also mpv Glow configurator with gui or gui focused fork MPV-EASY Player Being simple and no nonsense doesn't make it meme app
So download one of the many GUI programs that use MPV as a backend.
@Melatonin @kendo Yeah, there are some "GUI skin" apps for MPV, but for linux they are also really bare bone. Like seeker bar and volume control are now GTK or QT elements. There are only two apps based on MPV which allowed you access to config options: MPC-QT (on linux available only on arch and as flatpak - pass) and MVP.net (Windows only).
I recently had some issues with VLC lagging/creating some artifacts while watching some high bitrate 60fps videos and was recommended MPV which completely solved the issue (all videos played fluidly/smoothly at any framerate/bitrate).
Just fine out of the box. EXCELLENT when combined with the UOSC (enhanced UI) and THUMBFAST (thumbnail preview in seekbar) scripts.
It's got a barebones UI, no single-instance behavior, hardware decoding disabled by default... and to top it all off, the installation process is not straightforward. So it's very much not average-user-friendly. If you want a media player that just works and is easy to use out of the box, steer clear of mpv. You'll need to be somewhat tech-savvy and dive into documentation pieces and even scripting to squeeze out its capabilities. However, if you're willing to do that, it can become an extremely powerful and deeply customizable tool. I personally love it. To give you an example: it's the only player I've found so far capable of seamlessly playing several audio tracks simultaneously (there's a way to force this on
VLC Media Player, but it's very unreliable and will crash the player often). Plus, you get to assign any keybind to perform whatever function you might want. Highly recommended.
If you just know how to tinker with the conf files (which is very easy now coz of ai) it could turn out to be the best player ever. So much simple and far better experience than every other player out there including but not limited to vlc. An additional tip for silicon macs install with macports as it builds the app, much better and native otherwise you would have to do much more tinkering like installing rosetta etc as it is not native to silicon macs and will have a worse experience.
The best video player on Windows.
If you need GUI, try SMPlayer, which utilizes MPV.