MPV MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of... 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 • 10 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 9 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 Most reliable playback out there. kirillgorin • Apr 2017 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 252 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 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD AmigaOS ... Xfce MorphOS Integrated codecs Command line interface Add a feature 325 Like
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... Discontinued No further versions since 2016. See version info: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ Free Open Source Mac Linux Android BSD Xfce Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Playlists management Support for Hotkeys Add a feature 153 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 Custom filters Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Hi-fi sound Support for MPRIS ... Music Library Search operators Sits in the System Tray Add a feature 130 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 Add a feature 96 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 Add a feature 35 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 Add a feature 26 Like
Parole Parole is a media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework. Parole features playback of local media files, including video with... Free Open Source Linux Xfce No features added Add a feature 15 Like
Gnome MPlayer A GTK+2 interface to MPlayer. The power of MPlayer combined with a friendly interface for your desktop; You can play all your... Discontinued Latest version from Jan 10, 2014 https://code.google.com/archive/p/gnome-mplayer/downloads Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce MPlayer No features added Add a feature 22 Like
mpc A minimalist command line interface to MPD. Free Open Source Linux Xfce No features added Add a feature 6 Like
Potamus Lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality. Free Open Source Linux Xfce No features added Add a feature 6 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 Replay Gain Add a feature 8 Like
ncmpc ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without... Free Open Source Linux Xfce No features added Add a feature 5 Like
Xfmpc A graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint. Free Open Source Linux Xfce No features added Add a feature 5 Like
xine xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays... Free Linux Xfce Capture image from video Fullscreen support Add a feature 0 Like
