VLC Media Player Good alternative? YES NO

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...

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Kodi Good alternative? YES NO

Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS. Kodi is designed to be the perfect...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet BSD iPad Raspberry Pi Fire TV

Plex Good alternative? YES NO

Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can...

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QuickTime Player Good alternative? YES NO

Watch Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media clips. Whether it’s on the web or on your desktop, QuickTime Player brings your digital media brilliantly to...

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DivX Good alternative? YES NO

A professional and reliable software solution that provides you with the latest codecs and enables high quality DivX HEVC video creation and video streaming.

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone

MPlayerX YES NO

MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X.

Free Open Source Mac MPlayer

• 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/

Infuse Good alternative? YES NO

Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone or iPad. No need to convert files! Infuse is optimized for iOS...

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Movist Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Free Open Source Mac

qAllInOne Good alternative? YES NO

qAllInOne (aka qAIO) is a free open-source software built using Qt to provide users an All-In-One media player, so it can view images, play videos and audio. Features...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

5KPlayer Good alternative? YES NO

5KPlayer is a mixture of free (MKV) HD video player, music player, AirPlay media streamer and online video downloader.

Free Mac Windows

nessMediaCenter Good alternative? YES NO

Use your Mac as optimal media center! nessMediaCenter is the suitable replacement for Apple's Front Row: easy to use with a clean look and feel, direct access to...

Commercial Mac Apple TV

niceplayer Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Free Open Source Mac

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.98, released in April 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.

VidOn Server Good alternative? YES NO

Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.

Free Windows

MPlayer OSX Extended Alternative? YES NO

MPlayer OSX Extended is an unofficial extension of the MPlayer OSX user interface.

Free Open Source Mac MPlayer

• Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, Revision 15, released in November 2013, can be still downloded from the official website.

SimpleX Good alternative? YES NO

A Plex client for the new Apple TV.

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