btop VS mpv

Compare btop vs mpv and see what are their differences.

btop

A monitor of resources (by aristocratos)

mpv

🎥 Command line video player (by mpv-player)
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btop mpv
102 830
15,787 25,530
- 2.3%
9.3 9.9
5 days ago 7 days ago
C++ C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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btop

Posts with mentions or reviews of btop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

mpv

Posts with mentions or reviews of mpv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing btop and mpv you can also consider the following projects:

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

glsl-shaders - This repo is for glsl shaders converted by hand from libretro's common-shaders repo, since some don't play nicely with the cg2glsl script.

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

mpv.net - 🎞 mpv.net is a modern media player for Windows that works just like mpv. [Moved to: https://github.com/mpvnet-player/mpv.net]

Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video

iina - The modern video player for macOS.