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. The tool was... Discontinued Latest version v1.7.13 released on 16 July 2017. Alternatively, MPC-BE is based on MPC-HC and it is actively maintained. 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 • 0 agrees and 1 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 Extremely Light weight and better in performance than vlc Guest • Jul 2019 • 13 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Performance is superior to VLC. Guest • Sep 2019 • 9 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Very light-weight. With super easy interface and without any bugs. karpovskiipa • Mar 2019 • 10 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Run everything (with "K-lite mega codec pack" is perfect). BIr4 • Nov 2016 • 18 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree In my opinion MPC-HC is the definition of perfect for normal usage. It almost does every thing one can expect from a media player. Considering its performance, its size on the hard-disk as well as its CPU consumption is unbelievably low. Besides one have: Full control of playing screen size by default or cursor-dragging options Full control of video, audio, and playlist Full control of all after-play options Thank to all people who develop the program. Guest • May 2020 Disagree Agree no screen tearing or greying out like in vlc. it has all the codecs necessary to play. Only downside is interface cannot be themed like VLC Guest • Aug 2018 • 1 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 Better streaming buffering, runs custom enhanced codecs like LAV filters and madVR, borderless mode is perfect. bumba • Mar 2017 • 4 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 • 10 agrees and 4 disagrees 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 More accurate video and subtitles. Onurtag • Nov 2016 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 Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Support for 4K Automatic subtitles download Minimalistic ... Supports H265 Codec Audio Recording Apps with Chromecast Support Codec Tweak Tool Customizable Media Streaming Support for subtitles Add a feature 1108 Like
PotPlayer Minimalist video player that supports 3D video, Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode, and sound card selection. 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. For Windows users, PotPlayer is the best alternative to VLC. It has so many features and works so much more smoothly than VLC ever could. The UI on it is also top-notch. Guest • Mar 2020 Disagree Agree i love the touch capabilities of this specific software, the big button, the smooth scrolling with finger left and right, double tap to pause and play, all of that in windows media player is hard to find. luissalaslastra • Jan 2020 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree This is the best video player available on Windows, but unfortunately, there's no Linux client yet. Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Super-customizable, runs more smoothly than VLC, and it's better-looking. Guest • May 2019 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Looks better! more customizable, easier to use and support add two subtitle files at the same time (useful for the people who learn other language while watching) Guest • Nov 2017 • 11 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Good performance. Very good UI. Smooth performance. Regular updates. sgorky • Nov 2019 Disagree Agree PotPlayer has more and better features and functionality in addition to a decent user interface unlike VLC, the problem is if you want to change anything in the settings you are going to be lost as an average user because they are too complicated. But if you are experienced go for it, you won't find a better media player around. Guest • May 2019 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree simple, fast and powerful. enable extra decode method. beautiful custom and default ui Sycamoie • Jul 2019 Disagree Agree It has a lot of customaization and don't forget it is the first player to have Dark mood builtin default. humphreyhumphries • May 2020 Disagree Agree 1. It is easy to use 2. Plays almost all media types 3. Light weight 4. Doesn't install any spam software 5. Good user interface Guest • Nov 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Plays everything out of the box. And is not minimalist, it's feature rich and full of key shortcut. The only con is the messy menus Kamelian • Sep 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree PotPlayer is so great. Light, fast, great keyboard shortcuts, easily customizable, default subtitle font and size is great. Couldn't be happier. Works like a charm! And reads all sorts of video formats. Guest • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Works with most formats out of the box. Mostly configure for skins, key shortcuts etc. Guest • Jan 2017 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Feature rich and highly customizable, this wonderful piece of software has everything I need when I need it. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Plays about every format, very good compatibility with modern intel integrated chips, although not as much playback quality as VLC by a small margin, it has a lot more settings and better UI by a country mile. Best alternative to the now discontinued MPC. Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It plays almost any media files, features rich, customize any thing with hundreds of themes. Best for laptops. Guest • May 2017 • 5 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Has better internationalization Guest • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Very light and has lot of shortcuts Guest • Sep 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Windows Customizable Skinnable Support for subtitles Album shuffle mode ... Built-in Equalizer Built-in subtitle search Double subtitle support DirectX Video Acceleration Full keyboard shortcuts Graphical interface Live Broadcasting Minimalistic Playlists management Screen recording Support for 4K A-B repeat Ad-free Automatic subtitles download Bookmarks that appear on the seek bar Capture image from video Integrated codecs Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration Gapless Playback Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Lightweight Live Looping Matroska Music Player Night mode/Dark Theme Portable Support for Intel Quick Sync acceleration Skin Randomization Touch-based Video playback Add a feature 590 Like
MPV MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of... 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 • 12 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Development is active and can be found on many of the same platforms as VLC. Guest • Apr 2019 • 10 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree MPV is the best alternative to VLC on Linux. It plays just about anything you can throw at it while working much better than VLC does. Once you get used to the minimal interface and stability, you won't want to use anything else. Guest • Mar 2020 Disagree Agree Supports multiple formats that I didn't even know were videos. Fully customizable. Lightweight. Guest • Jan 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Open source, Better HDR support than VLC Guest • Jan 2020 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree MPV is the only capable media player that run also on all known operating systems, just like VLC. hathas • Aug 2018 • 4 agrees and 2 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 • 16 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree Plays all files quickly and cleanly, displays all subtitles correctly. Guest • Oct 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Best on Linux, couldn't see a 99% movie's ending, this worked like butter. munteanzeno • Aug 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Its simple, plays everything and its maintained by a big community . Guest • Jul 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree More stable and fast, it is the best VLC alternative for my experience. Guest • Mar 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's extremely lightweight but it does the jobs done johndoee • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Reliably supports more newer encodes + minimal InsaneFromEarth • Jul 2016 • 9 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Doesn't have hiccups VLC have during playbacks InsaneFromEarth • Jun 2016 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD ... Xfce Lightweight Lua scripting Minimalistic Command line interface ... GNU/linux-libre HDR source support Minimalistic UI Integrated codecs Download YouTube Playlist Drag n drop Low resource footprint MPlayer support Mplayer2 support Video playback Add a feature 309 Like
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... MPV made easy. Plays everything out of the box with no codecs necessary. Guest • Apr 2019 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree it's better at playing incomplete files than VLC. VLC is better overall, but if VLC can't do it, SMPlayer can. Guest • May 2020 Disagree Agree faster, better quality, no distortions in the videos like vlc. Guest • May 2018 • 2 agrees and 2 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 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree One click downloading of subtitles, less buggy subtitle downloading and handling compared to VLC. ghos3t • Jun 2018 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 2 disagrees 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 Best alternative for Vlc and GUI for MPV yugalsaluja • Jul 2017 Disagree Agree On Linux systems is much better than VLC, faster, with no bugs and read every kind of video file. Guest • Jun 2016 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD mpv PortableApps.com ... Haiku MPlayer Lightweight Customizable 3D Support Ad-free ... Built-in subtitle search Apps with Chromecast Support Integrated codecs Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple languages Portable Secondary Subtitle Support for subtitles UI customization YouTube background listening Youtube support Add a feature 384 Like
Kodi 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... Can also play many formats, and can organize video libraries, playing over UPnP, FTP, and many other protocols Guest • Mar 2019 • 1 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Kodi is a fullscreen media library manager, a whole home theater frontend. Slower for the purpose, with more complex navigation. Guest • 14 days ago Disagree Agree Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a software media center. Guest • Sep 2015 • 14 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Kody is more oriented to being a fullscreen video/music cataloguing application, but it has an internal video/audio/iptv playing system with very good decoding capabilities like VLC and can be windowed as well Guest • Sep 2015 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet BSD iPad Raspberry Pi Fire TV Media Streaming TV Shows meta data support Video library Support AirPlay ... Media library Music Player Support for subtitles Automatic subtitles download Built-in Media converter Built-in subtitle search DNLA Server Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for IPTV Jailbreak required Music Library TV Shows Add a feature 1287 Like
Media Player Classic Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. It has a built... Discontinued The project is no longer developed. The currently active fork is https://alternativeto.net/software/mpc-hc/ . Latest version, 6.4.9.1, released in April 2011, can be still downloaded from FreeCodec.com It doesn't feature an online streamer... Guest • Nov 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Windows Support for subtitles Add a feature 736 Like
KMPlayer The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format. Bundleware Be careful during installation. https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/ Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad Support for 4K Hardware Accelerated Supports H265 Codec Support for Batch Mode ... Music Player Add a feature 459 Like
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 Music Player Night mode/Dark Theme Portable Add a feature 129 Like
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... It read and play most media without any constraints. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD AmigaOS ... Xfce MorphOS QR Code Reader Integrated codecs Command line Command line interface Add a feature 329 Like
AIMP Free and full-featured media player with seamless, high-quality audio playback and comprehensive format support. Free Windows Android PortableApps.com Hi-fi sound Music Library Android Sync Built-In ID3 Tag Editor ... Icon sets Internet Radio Plugins Skins Stability CD Ripper Audio conversion Automatic album art download Batch Editing Built-in Tag editor Collaborative Playlists Customizable Equalizer Full keyboard shortcuts Interface Overlay Internet Radio Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Multiuser mode support Music Player Playlists management Portable Skin customization Skinnable Support for Hotkeys Support for Themes Vocal Remover Support Support for VST plugins Waveform Seekbar Add a feature 659 Like
