MPC-HC 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. We are 100%... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Support for 4K Audio recording Chromecast support ... Customizable Media Streaming Support for subtitles Supports H265 Codec Add a feature 1000 Like Discontinued As announced in their official news, the project is officially dead for lack of active developers. Last version, v1.7.13, released together with the announcement on July 16, 2017, can be still downloaded from the website. https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/ Run everything (with "K-lite mega codec pack" is perfect). BIr4 • Nov 2016 • 11 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree It's FOSS, just like VLC, but has much more cleaner and logical GUI, it's very light on resources and works great with LAV Filters and FFDshow (if one wants to have some extra configurable postprocessing options). Atoshi • Dec 2016 • 9 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Better streaming buffering, runs custom enhanced codecs like LAV filters and madVR, borderless mode is perfect. bumba • Mar 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree NAS playback on laggy wifi is really great. VLC stutters every minute, this one works smoothly. Great work! sergey1369 • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree The best FOSS media player for Windows. Much better than VLC. moitulok10 • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It is a lightweight Windows based video player I have ended up using it a lot more than I expected because of its ease of use strangefreeworld • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Is more user-friendly, specially the HC and the BE versions at the cost of less advanced features. TikiThorsen • Jun 2015 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree MPC-HC has a clean interface, support for remote control and plays anything your system has a codec installed for (and so you can expand it to support more formats by adding codecs). Great with K-Lite Codec Pack and others. Inspired by the classic version of Windows Media Player to provide a familiar interface. Open source. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree Agree x265 HEVC Support is amazing. VLC takes 10second to jump playback but MPC-HC doesn't take any. ugurozturk • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Doesn't need any external codec and uses less procesing power than VLC. Also, it has better subtitle support and better scaling quality via madVR. Perfect for 4K, HEVC, Opus, hi10p MKV, etc. Guest • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
MPV MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD ... Xfce Lightweight Command line interface Lua scripting Minimalistic ... Integrated codecs Download YouTube Playlist Drag n drop Add a feature 229 Like I had some rare cases were VLC and MPlayer couldn't play a video correctly. MPV did it for me on Linux and Windows. Also like the GUI (or the lack of it) a lot more. vektorweg • Dec 2016 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree There was a time when VLC was justifiably considered the best open-source cross-platform movie player. MPV has closed the gap substantially and is likely to work out-of-the-box in a minority of cases where VLC gets stuck. Excellent software. Open souce (trustworthy) and free, of course. JohnFastman • Dec 2016 • 7 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Reliably supports more newer encodes + minimal InsaneFromEarth • Jul 2016 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Doesn't have hiccups VLC have during playbacks InsaneFromEarth • Jun 2016 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Its simple, plays everything and its maintained by a big community . Guest • Jul 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Best on Linux, couldn't see a 99% movie's ending, this worked like butter. munteanzeno • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Plays all files quickly and cleanly, displays all subtitles correctly. Guest • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree More stable and fast, it is the best VLC alternative for my experience. Guest • Mar 2018 Disagree Agree It's extremely lightweight but it does the jobs done johndoee • Apr 2018 Disagree Agree
SMPlayer 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD mpv PortableApps.com ... Haiku MPlayer Customizable Lightweight Ad-free Built-in subtitle search ... Chromecast support Integrated codecs Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple languages Portable Support for subtitles UI customization Listen Youtube in background Youtube support Add a feature 335 Like On Linux systems is much better than VLC, faster, with no bugs and read every kind of video file. Guest • Jun 2016 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree After i tried VLC and MPC I looked for another alternatives. I think SMPlayer is best suited for me. You can customize theme, also very light, and you can resume videos that have been played before. Guest • Aug 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It plays everything with no need to add other codes and the video looks way better than on VLC. Guest • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree faster, better quality, no distortions in the videos like vlc. Guest • May 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree One click downloading of subtitles, less buggy subtitle downloading and handling compared to VLC. ghos3t • Jun 2018 Disagree Agree Much faster searching within videos. Files are removable from disk, directly in the playlist (has to be activated in the options). Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree Agree
Clementine Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Lightweight Built-in Tag editor IDevice sync Integrated last.fm scrobbler ... Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync iTunes integration Last.FM Scrobbler Music Library Shuffle that has several modes Add a feature 620 Like Clementine is audio player, and does not have video capabilities. Guest • Jul 2015 • 21 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Clementine is audio player, and does not have video capabilities. R3DJOK3R1 • Sep 2017 • 12 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's only music player, not media in general (videos specifically). orestesgaolin • Aug 2015 • 11 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Clementine can't play videos. It's only for music. Guest • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree VLC excels at video, with a but of music on the side. Clementine is a pure-audio player. Guest • Nov 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
MPlayer 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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD AmigaOS ... Xfce MorphOS Integrated codecs Command line interface Add a feature 323 Like It read and play most media without any constraints. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
MPC-BE MPC-BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. MPC-BE is based on the original Guliverkli project and "Media Player Classic Home... Free Open Source Windows Integrated Youtube support Portable Add a feature 92 Like
Media Player Classic Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. Free Open Source Windows Support for subtitles Add a feature 702 Like Discontinued The currently active fork is Media Player Classic Home Cinema, but MPC is still downloadable from FreeCodec.com
Amarok Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature 380 Like Amarok is a music player. It has no video playback functionality. SergTTL • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
DeaDBeeF DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys... Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Android BSD Xfce Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Support for Hotkeys Add a feature 149 Like
Banshee Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio.... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature 293 Like Discontinued No new releases and features since 2014. Latest versions, 2.6.2 (stable) and 2.9.1 (development), released in February and March 2014, are still working and can be downloaded from the official website.
Quod Libet A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Debian Xfce Custom filters Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for MPRIS Music Library ... Sits in the System Tray Voice Notes Add a feature 126 Like
Miro Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is a free and open source internet TV application, media library, and video player. Through Miro, you can subscribe to any RSS feed... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Android Sync Built-in Media converter Built-in Torrent client Create PlayList ... Fullscreen support Music Library Music store Add a feature 238 Like Discontinued No updates since 2013. Youtube intergration broken because of no updates since youtube API changed. See changelog: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/Miro/
IINA INA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to user interface. It adopts the post-Yosemite design language and keeps up the pace of new technologies... Free Open Source Mac Automatic subtitles download Lightweight Automatic conversion to multiple formats Behaves like a Mac app should ... Built-in themes Clean design Clear interface Live Preview Modern Media Streaming Picture in Picture Play web video Support for subtitles Add a feature 29 Like Great alternative to VLC if you're on macOS. It's lightweight, the UI is very clean, and has even more functionalities than VLC. POX • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
Vanilla Music Vanilla Music, fork of Vanilla Music Player that has been abandoned, is an opensource music player for Android, designed to be simple, clean and minimal. Music is played... Free Open Source Android Gapless Playback Last.FM Scrobbler Minimalistic Music Library ... Music Queue Add a feature 35 Like
MPlayerX 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 OS X MPlayer macOS-like MultiTouch Support for Multiple Monitors Support for subtitles Add a feature 71 Like 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/ It's the best media player for Mac, it behaves like a native mac app, the same beautiful design of QuickTime but reads a lot of video formats, I highly recommend MPlayerX! Guest • Nov 2016 Disagree Agree
