MPlayer Alternatives

MPlayer is described as '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, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs' and is a very popular Media Player in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MPlayer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best MPlayer alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MPlayer are MPC-HC, MPV, AIMP and PotPlayer.

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  1. Free Mac Media Player is the best video player for Mac and Windows users. You can use it to playback videos in MP4/AVI/MKV/MOV/FLV/WMV and other formats smoothly. Therefore, whether you have downloaded videos from YouTube, or downloaded flash videos from other sites, or recorded...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. Musique icon
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    Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean interface that keeps you focused on what really matters: music.

    126 Musique alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Glide Player icon
     1 like

    Minimalist media player using GStreamer for multimedia support and GTK for UI, supporting multiple formats on Linux and macOS. Offers subtitle and audio track switching, playback controls, and fullscreen mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
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  4. JuceVLC icon
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    JuceVLC is VLC with a simple MediaCenter-like fullscreen User Interface.

    You can browse and watch movies from your couch with a wireless mouse.

    40 JuceVLC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Cineplay icon
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    Originating from the Jahshaka project OpenLibraries based Cineplay is a multi platform video player that supports a wide array of codecs.

    55 Cineplay alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. MediaPlayerOK is an extremely compact, portable, and resource-efficient media player for all modern Windows operating systems. As is typical of SoftwareOK, the tool deliberately avoids unnecessary bloat and background processes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. FX Player icon
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    The reason we can say this is that we are creating our own user experience that is required as a media player and we prime concern are also manufacturing techniques for the user experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  8. Total Video Player is equipped with powerful video play function makes you to perfectly Play 4K ultra HD AVI, MKV... movies on without any lag as well as Blu-ray disc, DVD disc, VCD/SVCD disc, DVB disc, and Audio CD disc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Video player for Raspberry-pi, instead of using Raspberry-pi cpu power to play 1080p videos (which Raspberry-pi cannot play smoothly) feeds the video to your TV.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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  10. JustPlay icon
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    JustPlay is a simple media player that will just play any video or audio file you have. It supports MP4, AVI, MOV, SWF, DAT, MKV, MP3, FLAC, M4V, FLV, Blu-ray, etc. You won't need additional codecs or plugins - this tiny player actually comes packed with all necessary stuff...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Clip is a convergent video player and collection manager utilizing MPV as the backend. By using MPV, you can also play remote videos by entering the URL besides local videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Light Alloy icon
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    Light Alloy is a multimedia player for Windows.

    Features

    Timeline So you can see graphically how much is played and how much is still to play

    WinLIRC Allows you to remotely control Light Alloy, for example if you are laying on the sofa

    Live.

    63 Light Alloy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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