Open Source Playon Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Playon is OSMC. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Playon and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Playon are MediaPortal, Android TV, Kantaris and PseudoTV.

Playon alternatives are mainly Media Centers but may also be Media Players or Media Servers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Playon.

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Playon

Paid • Proprietary
Media Center

PlayOn is both browser and media server for your Windows PC which lets you magically stream your favorite shows, movies,...

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OSMC
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Audio Player
Apple TV
Raspberry Pi
43 OSMC alternatives
OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based...
- - OSMC is the most popular Open Source alternative to Playon.
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OSMC Features
1. LightweightOSMC consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Designed for TVs
Momentjs integration
Auto-identifies vids
Based on Debian
Stream video to Apple TV
Comments about OSMC as a Alternative to Playon
pros, cons and recent comments
Guest
Playon is a streaming recorder.
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Guest
Doesn't record. Playon is mainly for recording streaming.
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MediaPortal
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Media Player
Audio Player
Windows
30 MediaPortal alternatives
MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and Music in a much more dynamic way.
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MediaPortal Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsMediaPortal can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Skinnable
DVB-C
Dvb-t
TV Tuner
TV Streaming
Android TV
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Free • Open Source
Android
50 Android TV alternatives
Android TV is a Operating System made for the TV which has a custom launcher and custom apps to make it easier to navigate on the television.
- - Android TV is the most popular Android alternative to Playon.
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Kantaris
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Free • Open Source
Media Player
Windows
137 Kantaris alternatives
Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client (http://alternativeto.net/software/vlc-media-player/) and Bass audio library. Kantaris has a graphical user interface similar to that of Windows Media Player.
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Kantaris Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsKantaris can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Support for subtitles
Discontinued
Last Update: 2013-04-25. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/kantaris/
Warning
Sourceforge has detected malware in Kantaris builds.
PseudoTV
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Media Player
Media Server
Apple TV
Kodi
Fire TV
54 PseudoTV alternatives
PseudoTV Live is channel-surfing for your media center. Never again will you have to actually pick what you want to watch. Use an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to view what's on or select a show to watch.
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PseudoTV Features
1. Chromecast SupportCast your content to a Chromecast connected device with PseudoTV.
2. Watch Live TVWith PseudoTV, you can watch live television on your devices.
Media Streaming
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Moovida
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Media Player
Windows
29 Moovida alternatives
Moovida is transforming the way consumers experience digital entertainment media. In a world where the promise of on-demand media has yet to be realized, Moovida develops software and services to simplify and enhance media consumption, effectively filling the gap between the...
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Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.1.1, released in October 2011, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.
Oblecto
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Media Player
Media Server
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
BSD
Self-Hosted
58 Oblecto alternatives
Oblecto is a media server, similar to Plex, Emby, Netflix and others. It runs in the background on a home server to index your media such as movies and TV shows to make them searchable and streamable through a REST based interface.
- - Oblecto is the most popular Web-based, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Playon.
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Oblecto Features
Local Storage
Local server
TV Streaming
Built-in Media converter
Media Streaming
MythTV
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Media Server
Mac
Windows
Linux
42 MythTV alternatives
MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. With its plugin architecture, MythTV can be transformed into a home media center suite, capable of managing your personal photo, video, and music collections...
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MythTV Features
TV Tuner
DVR
TV Streaming
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MythTV doesn't record streaming media, which is PlayOn's prime function.
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Ushare uPnP media server
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Free • Open Source
Media Server
Linux
31 Ushare uPnP media server alternatives
uShare is a UPnP (TM) A/V & DLNA Media Server. It implements the server component that provides UPnP media devices with information on available multimedia files. uShare uses the built-in http server of libupnp to stream the files to clients.
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Ushare uPnP media server Features
Data transfer
DNLA Server
Support for DLNA
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Freevo
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Mac
Windows
Linux
18 Freevo alternatives
Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.
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Freevo Features
DVR
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer maintained. Last stable version, 1.9.2 Beta, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
OpenTheatre
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Free • Open Source
Windows
64 OpenTheatre alternatives
It communicates with its own API written entirely using our custom built command-line web crawler designed to scrape information from trusted files, updated every day. The public web resources used are available on our open assets database, where anyone can contribute their open...
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Discontinued
This app has been abandoned, but can still be downloaded from GitHub.
Enna
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Free • Open Source
Media Center
Audio Player
Linux
29 Enna alternatives
Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
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Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, v0.4.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.