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, Windows, iPhone, Open Source, Mac and Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to VLC Media Player.
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  1. 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
     
  2. 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
     
  3. MoboPlayer icon
     4 likes

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

    56 Kaffeine alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE
     
  5. ExMplayer icon
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    Play any media files,convert,extract,animate and more...Official page of ExMplayer

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  6. MediaPlay DVD Player – Play DVDs & More is a free multimedia application for PC. Formerly known as Power DVD Player, it is a full-featured video player designed to provide users with an easy way to play DVDs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre is your all-in-one media player that plays videos, DVDs, Blu-ray and 3D discs, online video and more with cinema-like experience. It delivers stunning Blu-ray 3D and HD video playback and supports almost all video files like WMV, FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP4...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Mi Video icon
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    Local video player, downloader, file manager and YouTube client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. 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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. DAPlayer icon
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    DAPlayer is powerful, free video/audio player software for Windows.

    It supports playing most popular video formats like MPEG1/2, AVI, FLV, MP4, and High-definition videos which include Bluray, AVCHD, TS, MKV, MPEG4, H264 video formats as well as all 1-6 region locked DVDs and.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Vidmore Player is professional software which could play Blu-ray disc/folder/ISO files without losing the video quality. In addition, it could also play the DVD disc/folder/ISO files smoothly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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