Lightweight Quickfire Video Player Alternatives

The best alternative to Quickfire Video Player is MPC-HC, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Quickfire Video Player and many of them are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Quickfire Video Player are Clementine, PotPlayer, SMPlayer and Strawberry.

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  1. MPC-HC icon
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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.

    142 MPC-HC alternatives

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. Clementine icon
     757 likes

    Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

    247 Clementine alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  3. PotPlayer icon
     697 likes

    Extensive Windows media player with wide format compatibility, robust customization, ad-free interface, hardware acceleration, advanced and animated subtitle support, smooth seamless playback, 3D output modes, scene preview, bookmarks, OpenCodec, and device support.

    133 PotPlayer alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. SMPlayer icon
     461 likes

    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.

    128 SMPlayer alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • mpv
    • Snapcraft
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • MPlayer
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
     
  5. Strawberry icon
     249 likes

    Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.

    238 Strawberry alternatives

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    • Warning

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  6. MPC-BE icon
     183 likes

    Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) is a fork of MPC and MPC-HC. It moved away from MPC's aim to mimic the look and feel of Windows Media Player with updated player controls and provides additional features on top of MPC-HC such as a video preview tooltip when...

    118 MPC-BE alternatives

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    • Windows
     
  7. MPlayer icon
     341 likes

    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.

    131 MPlayer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
    • MorphOS
    • Haiku
     
  8. VokoscreenNG icon
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    VokoscreenNG is a user friendly screencaster for Linux and Windows. It is a continuation of the now discontinued Vokoscreen project that has been totally rewritten from scratch using Qt and GStreamer.

    180 VokoscreenNG alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    215 Windows Media Player alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. GNOME Videos icon
     114 likes

    Videos (previously Totem) is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on xine-lib or GStreamer.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  11. GOM Player icon
     240 likes

    GOM Player is a freeware media player. Key strengths are the ability to play the majority of media files without the need to obtain a codec, and the ability to play some broken media files, both advantages over traditional players, like Windows Media Player.

    132 GOM Player alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  12. QMPlay2 icon
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    QMPlay2 is a video and audio player. It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and Prostopleer browser.

    150 QMPlay2 alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
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