VLC Media Player
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Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Apple Watch
- Snapcraft
- Google Chrome
- Apple TV
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
- Haiku
- Android TV
- OpenAPK
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
- Xbox
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The ultimate F-Droid setup (300+ Apps)
WHAT IS F-DROID ?
F-Droid is an awesome app repository for FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) android apps. From productivity apps to games, f-droid has (almost) everything you need.
Hope you will discover useful FOSS apps to free your phone from Big Tech^^
REPOSITORIES :
This list includes apps from the official f-droid repo but also from IzzyOnDroid and some customs repositories which will be always linked so you can add them easily.
CATEGORIES :
F-Droid clients
Utilities
Social & Communication / 8 subcategories
Health / 7 subcategories
Customization / 3 subcategories
Gaming / 3 subcategories
Internet / 6 subcategories
Productivity / 15 subcategories
Privacy / 5 subcategories
Security / 4 subcategories
Media apps / 10 subcategories
If you care about privacy check :
Privacy focused OS for everyone
My privacy and user friendly setup
For more FOSS Android apps check : Beautiful Open Source Apps for Android
DISCLAIMERS :
Adding custom repo might not be as secure as the official one so I'm not responsable if you encounter any problems with them ! I encourage you to do your own research about it !
Also while open source is great for privacy and security it is not perfect. So keep that in mind before downloading any apps.
Most apps that I've listed are privacy friendly but some might be not be perfectly private and secure. I again encourage you to do your own research about them.
I am not a privacy and security expert. I'm also don't consider myself as a developper so I do not have any technical knowledge and so I didn't look into any source code of any apps in this list !
English is not my mother tongue ^^'
Free tools (Software that can help you mostly in any field)
This is going to be a list of the free tools/software that can be used mostly in any field. it's based on websites recommendations, personal experience and YouTube videos. If there's any software that you like to be added here pls inform me so we can do it together. They won't be in the alphabetical order. Together we can do it. If you find any software in the list that's not free let me know
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Install from the command line
winget install -e --id VideoLAN.VLCbrew install --cask vlcflatpak install flathub org.videolan.VLC
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Comments and Reviews
VLC media is a standard-setter for cross-platform, open-source, reliable, dependable, configurable media players. No doubt. Except one tiny thing: Recently... VLC has gotten slow. Slow on Mac, slow on Linux, and... a little (not much) on Windows. (At least Windows 10.) VLC deserves respect of a kind very few apps do. It's free, open source AND... at the time of writing (5th March 2017) it's beating Dropbox (nasty sh*t that that is - and it is, trust me!) as the most popular app for Windows on this site. That takes some doing. It really does. But... here's the thing...: If ultimate customizability isn't so important to you, try MPV. Like VLC, MPV is open source, free and all the rest. But it's likely to load faster and play your thing with fewer glitches and hitches. Until you need the subtitles to be 5 pixels from the left edge of the screen and 8 ms offset from the audio. Then it's back to VLC.
This is the well define answer and accourding my view is information is satisfied.
Probably the heavyweight of Media Players, but on my old laptop I get "choppy" audio. Have made many changes but still no good. Rather than waste more time with VLC I've returned to using what works for me, and that's Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and sometimes MPC-BE (Black Edition). Both work "out of the box" without giving me a headache.
[Edited by maxbramble, February 12]
agree
Plays literally every file I throw at it without hunting for codecs. Lightweight, free and no ads. The interface looks dated but it just works.
VLC fails to play heavier videos, such as blu-rays and Remuxes. And on other heavy videos, it can stutter/glitch a lot.
It plays almost every media format, including music formats from older consoles like
.VGZand.SPC.The only downsides are that the Windows version doesn’t have a dark mode, and the Android version has a small issue: when I open a file directly from an external file manager, the first few seconds are muted. Other than that, it’s an excellent app.
cold-startup time can take 30 seconds(!) on some devices and it doesn't support selecting multiple tracks, which sucks when you want to review a recording that has different audio split across different channels.
If you want to play all tracks you have to hijack its streaming function to play every single track of every type at once by, for example, dropping a video file onto a .bat file with the following content (remember to add vlc to path on windows): start "" "vlc" --sout-all --sout #display %1
Selecting different individual tracks aside, According to one of the devs adding even a button that simply makes all tracks play (what that command already does) is apparently "too fringe case" to implement https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=145140
It will run anything and everything however, so I recommend it as a fallback at least.
only 2 stars because though I really want to like it, this abhorrently slow startup and single track limitation makes it very annoying to use.
Best free multimedia player.