VLC Media Player Alternatives

VLC Media Player is described as 'Cross-platform, free media player supports multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, offers hardware acceleration, 4K, lossless audio, and more' and is a leading Media Player in the video & movies category. There are more than 100 alternatives to VLC Media Player for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best VLC Media Player alternative is MPC-HC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VLC Media Player are MPV, PotPlayer, SMPlayer and MX Player.

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VLC Media Player alternatives are mainly Media Players, but if you're looking for Audio Players or Video Streaming Apps you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Linux, Open Source, Windows, iPhone, Mac and Android + Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to VLC Media Player.
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  1. MoonPlayer icon
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    All-in-One video player based on mpv that can play videos from Youtube, Bilibili etc. as well as local videos.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Flatpak
    • Flathub
     
  2. mpvc icon
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    An mpc-like control interface for mpv with a nearly complete compatibility layer for mpc commands in addition to GNU style arguments. This forks lwillets/mpvc providing some extra goodies such as: improved CLI, TUI, FZF & playing media from YouTube & streaming services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. GridPlayer icon
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    Simple VLC-based video player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them).

    13 GridPlayer alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Media player based on Mplayer/FFmpeg technologies. It has a simple interface and many powerful functions:

    • Possibility to get an audio track from video clip
    • Possibility to get a screencast
    • Possibility to trim video

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. ALLPlayer icon
     8 likes

    ALLPlayer is a freeware with modern and intuitive interface, known more from smartphones and tablets.

    65 ALLPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. nPlayer icon
     6 likes

    nPlayer provides high quality video play performance and easy control-UI supporting almost all kinds of video formats and codecs without file converting efforts.

    199 nPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. Goodplayer icon
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    No need to convert the media files before playing it, GoodPlayer can play AVI, Xvid, Divx, DAT,VOB,FLV,WMV , MKV, MP4, RM, RMVB, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP, MMS, SFTP, SMB, MMSH, MMST, RTP, UPnP and UDP etc..., files and streaming directly on iOS devices.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. 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 types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. Kaffeine icon
     19 likes

    Kaffeine is a media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) for the Linux KDE desktop environment.

    58 Kaffeine alternatives

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE
     
  10. Real Alternative allows your system to play Real Media files (.ra .ram) without having to install the full version of RealPlayer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. MoboPlayer icon
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    MoboPlayer is a video player for Android that plays most video formats. Watch any of your videos on a phone without conversion, anytime and anywhere. MoboPlayer's media library is easy to browse, lets you include only specific folders, and has two different viewing modes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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