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The best alternative to MX Player 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 MX Player and many of them are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to MX Player are MPC-HC, SMPlayer, Media Player Classic and MPlayer.

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  1. VLC Media Player icon

    VLC Media Player

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    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.

    167 VLC Media Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • 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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    Comments about VLC Media Player as an Alternative to MX Player
    InsaneFromEarth
    Positive
    5

    Open source alternative on Android

    ab1
    Positive
    0

    Worse performance but no ads.

    franciscomendez
    Positive
    8

    Can read all usual formats. That's most important.

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    • Almost everyone thinks VLC Media Player is a great MX Player alternative.

    • VLC Media Player is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to MX Player.

    • VLC Media Player is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MX Player.

    • VLC Media Player is Free and Open SourceMX Player is Freemium and Proprietary
    • VLC Media Player is Privacy focusedMX Player is not according to our users
  2. MPC-HC icon

    MPC-HC

     1308 likes
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    A lightweight open-source media player for Windows, giving support for all video/audio formats. It boasts no ads, dark themes, codec support, and seamless YouTube playback. Developed by longtime contributors, it's mature software with community improvements and crash fixes.

    139 MPC-HC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Allows to search subtitles plus tons of other features, highly configurable and above all open sourced project.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • MPC-HC is Free and Open SourceMX Player is Freemium and Proprietary
    • MPC-HC is Lightweight and Privacy focusedMX Player is not according to our users
  4. SMPlayer icon

    SMPlayer

     457 likes
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    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.

    129 SMPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • mpv
    • Snapcraft
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • MPlayer
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
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  5. Media Player Classic icon

    Media Player Classic

     761 likes
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    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...

    133 Media Player Classic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. MPlayer icon

    MPlayer

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    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.

    133 MPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
    • MorphOS
    • Haiku
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    Splash

     75 likes
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    The only player you will ever need. Stunning video quality thanks to advanced engine. Video conversion optimized for social media. Innovative and fully customizable user interface. In one word - Splash.

    108 Splash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Just (Video) Player icon

    Just (Video) Player

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    Android video player based on ExoPlayer library. It uses ExoPlayer's ffmpeg extension with all its audio formats enabled (it can handle even special formats like AC3, EAC3, DTS, DTS HD, TrueHD etc.).

    41 Just (Video) Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
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  11. BSPlayer icon

    BSPlayer

     66 likes
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    BSPlayer is the first software movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec. Also, it has very low CPU and RAM requirements.

    108 BSPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Kindle Fire
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  12. ALLPlayer icon

    ALLPlayer

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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
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    Korwin
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    AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, 3GP, MKV, M2TS, MOV, MPG, MPEG, RM, RMVB, WMV, VOB, ASF, QuickTime, F4V, TS, HD, ...

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    • ALLPlayer is Free Personal and ProprietaryMX Player is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Parole

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    Parole is a media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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