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%... Run everything (with "K-lite mega codec pack" is perfect). BIr4 • Nov 2016 • 12 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 3 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 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 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 Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Support for 4K Audio recording Chromecast support ... Codec Tweak Tool Customizable Media Streaming Support for subtitles Supports H265 Codec Add a feature 1007 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/
PotPlayer Potplayer is a minimalist media player that has an extensive range of configurable options to choose from and lots of functionality. The application supports Blu-ray... 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 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Works with most formats out of the box. Mostly configure for skins, key shortcuts etc. Guest • Jan 2017 • 3 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 • 3 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 • 2 agrees and 1 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 • 1 agrees and 0 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 Disagree Agree This is the best video player available on Windows, but unfortunately, there's no Linux client yet. Guest • Apr 2018 Disagree Agree Even more customization, better rendering of video and sound Guest • Aug 2017 Disagree Agree better audio quality and volume at least in my computer Guest • Sep 2017 Disagree Agree Free Windows Built-in subtitle search Customizable Minimalistic Skinnable ... Support for subtitles Ad-free Automatic subtitles download Capture image from video Clean GUI Integrated codecs Support for CUDA acceleration Gapless Playback Lightweight Live Looping Matroska Portable Support for QuickSync acceleration Skin Randomization Add a feature 466 Like
MPV MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of... Reliably supports more newer encodes + minimal InsaneFromEarth • Jul 2016 • 8 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 8 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 • 8 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 Doesn't have hiccups VLC have during playbacks InsaneFromEarth • Jun 2016 • 3 agrees and 2 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 MPV is the only capable media player that run also on all known operating systems, just like VLC. hathas • Aug 2018 Disagree Agree 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 233 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... 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 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
foobar2000 foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Main features Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus... VLC is a multimedia (audio and video) player, foobar is only an audio player MiauFrito • Jun 2017 • 37 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Foobar is a wonderfully customizable app for playing music files. It is very configurable and can be skinned and adjusted in many ways. Compared to VLC you can make Foobar look really cool if you want to use it as your main audio player. It has a good number of plugins for playing other audio types and organizing your audio library. kholdstayr • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Windows Phone Music Library Customizable Replay Gain Lightweight ... Audio processing/resampling Automatic Tagging Auto update Better tags service Customizable interface Dark theme Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File-organization Gapless Playback Great Opus codec support Library Organization Mic music playing Minimalistic Portable Sorting by folder Support for Themes UI customization Waveform Seekbar Add a feature 1304 Like
Clementine Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4. Clementine is audio player, and does not have video capabilities. Guest • Jul 2015 • 22 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Clementine is audio player, and does not have video capabilities. R3DJOK3R1 • Sep 2017 • 13 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's only music player, not media in general (videos specifically). orestesgaolin • Aug 2015 • 12 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 This is a great music Player but no Video player Guest • Aug 2018 Disagree Agree 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 Add a feature 624 Like
Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to... Freemium Mac Windows Crossfading Music Library Shoutcast streaming Android Sync ... Audio Analysis Automatic Tagging Integrated Web Browser Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Mix Music Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skin customization Visualize Music Add a feature 804 Like Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed and there are no news after October 2016: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=3072003#post3072003 Last version, 5.666 Build 3516 patched, can be still downloaded from the official website forums.
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 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD AmigaOS ... Xfce MorphOS Integrated codecs Command line interface Add a feature 324 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 Portable Add a feature 94 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 704 Like Discontinued The currently active fork is Media Player Classic Home Cinema, but MPC is still downloadable from FreeCodec.com
KMPlayer The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format. Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad Support for Batch Mode Add a feature 446 Like Bundleware Be careful during installation. https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
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... Amarok is a music player. It has no video playback functionality. SergTTL • Feb 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature 380 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 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.
Windows Media Player The media player provided pre-installed with all modern Windows versions (7 and higher): Windows Media Player 12 plays more music and video than ever, including Flip... Free Windows Music Library Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Bundled with Windows Add a feature 248 Like
BSPlayer BSPlayer is the first software movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around... Freemium Windows Android Kindle Fire Automatic subtitles download Integrated codecs Lightweight Support for subtitles Add a feature 67 Like
