Optimus Player Alternatives
Optimus Player is described as 'Play Any File
Built on top of the industrial-strength FFmpeg software libraries1, Optimus Player can play all the major file formats, including MP4, MKV, and Ogg' and is an app in the Video & Movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Optimus Player for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Android, BSD and Windows Phone. The best alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Optimus Player are MPC-HC (Free, Open Source), MPV (Free, Open Source), PotPlayer (Free) and IINA (Free, Open Source).
- VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN. View 256 alternatives to VLC Media Player
- Free • Open Source
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- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Blackberry 10
- Apple Watch
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
- Haiku
- 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. View 113 alternatives to MPC-HC
- MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. View 70 alternatives to MPV
- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Xfce
- Minimalist video player that supports 3D video, Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode, and sound card selection. View 101 alternatives to PotPlayer
Bundleware
Several antivirus detect a potentially unwanted application (adware) PUA.FusionCore in the file F.dll dropped by the installer of PotPlayer in the Temp folder. Once that file is blocked by the antivirus, the program is installed with no problems and ads.
- Free
- Windows
- INA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to user interface. View 19 alternatives to IINA
- 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 life. View 139 alternatives to QuickTime Player
- MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X. View 83 alternatives to MPlayerX
Warning
MPlayerX has been bundled with malwares, including adware. See the VirusTotal scan results at https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6f1e9d7dc6b52af887b5e1bee6e0d0366345fb53c752ca23b98a9cf9b647fd49/analysis/1441451188/
Discontinued
Installer contains possible malware:
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/attacksignatures/detail.jsp?asid=29897- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- MPlayer
- A Mac media player based on QuickTime and FFMpeg, Open source under the GPLv3 and hosted on Google Code. View 85 alternatives to Movist
- MPV-EASY Player is a movie player based on MPV . View 66 alternatives to MPV-EASY Player
- Tired of music players that take forever to start up because they're loading ads or trying to download stuff? View 252 alternatives to Pretty Good Music Player