MPV MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of... Development is active and can be found on many of the same platforms as VLC. Guest • Apr 2019 • 13 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Clean and simple, easy to manage configuration. RemovedUser • Aug 2020 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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees 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 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 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 Minimalistic Lua scripting Integrated codecs ... Command line interface Drag n drop GNU/linux-libre HDR source support Low resource footprint Minimalistic UI Video playback Download YouTube Playlist Drag n drop MPlayer support Mplayer2 support Add a feature 329 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 330 Like
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 Windows Linux Debian Xfce Plugins Customization Library management Library Manager ... Media library Python Soundcloud integration Tagging Custom filters Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Hi-fi sound Integrated Search Support for MPRIS Music Library Music Player Musicbrainz support Search operators Sits in the System Tray Add a feature 144 Like
DeaDBeeF DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE ... Cinnamon GNOME MATE Xfce Equalizer Fully customizable interface Replay Gain Tabs ... Audio conversion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Music Player Playlists management Support for Hotkeys Add a feature 166 Like
Exaile Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce Internet Radio Last.FM Scrobbler Music Player Add a feature 103 Like
Qmmp Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms. Extra features XMMS and Winamp 2. Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce Built-in Media converter Last.FM Scrobbler Music Player Add a feature 40 Like
Foobnix Foobnix audio player for Linux, Windows and Android. Main features player Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab); Formats MP3, MP4... Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in June 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website. Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce Internet Radio Music Player Add a feature 26 Like
mpc A minimalist command line interface to MPD. Free Open Source Linux Xfce Music Player Add a feature 7 Like
Goggles Music Manager Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports... Free Open Source Linux Xfce Batch rename files Create PlayList Last.FM Scrobbler Lightweight ... Multiple languages Music Player Replay Gain Add a feature 9 Like
Xfmpc A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint. Free Open Source Linux Xfce Music Player Add a feature 6 Like
