MX Player Alternatives

The top-rated alternative to MX Player is VLC Media Player, which is free and open source. People also recommend MPC-HC, MPV, PotPlayer and SMPlayer. You're spoiled for choice with Media Players like MX Player: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and iPhone.

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  1. 3DSfin icon
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    Video playback of your entire jellyfin catalog, on your New 3ds! 3DSfin is a work in progress jellyfin client for New Nintendo 3DS.

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    Platforms

    • Nintendo Wii / Wii U
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  2. ExMplayer icon
     6 likes

    Play any media files,convert,extract,animate and more...Official page of ExMplayer

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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.

    232 Switch Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. SwiftVLC icon
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    AVFoundation is excellent for Apple's native media stack, but its container, codec, subtitle, and network-protocol support is limited to what Apple ships. Apps that need MKV, SSA/ASS subtitles, RTSP, SMB, UPnP, or other VLC-backed formats and protocols need a broader engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
    • Apple Swift
    • visionOS
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  5. FX Player icon
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    The reason we can say this is that we are creating our own user experience that is required as a media player and we prime concern are also manufacturing techniques for the user experience.

    94 FX Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  6. Imagen is a multimedia player initially developed for playing HAV files, later extended to support numerous other media formats. Imagen has a unique capability to play sequentially numerated images as if they belong to a video file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. MediaPlayerOK is an extremely compact, portable, and resource-efficient media player for all modern Windows operating systems. As is typical of SoftwareOK, the tool deliberately avoids unnecessary bloat and background processes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. MPlayer WW icon
     12 likes

    MPlayer for Windows (modified by william0wang) with many additional features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • MPlayer
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  9. KPlayer icon
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    KPlayer is a video playback app. If 'H.264 Hardware Acceleration' is supported, it can play 720p, and 1080p video files more smoothly. Also you can enjoy a movie in the concise interface with the high-quality subtitles that are displayed quickly.

    78 KPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10.  20 likes

    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.

    73 Gnome MPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    • MPlayer
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