GStreamer VS mpv

Compare GStreamer vs mpv and see what are their differences.

GStreamer

GStreamer open-source multimedia framework (by GStreamer)
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GStreamer mpv
1 830
2,093 25,874
3.7% 2.4%
9.9 9.9
1 day ago 7 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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GStreamer

Posts with mentions or reviews of GStreamer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.

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 GStreamer and mpv you can also consider the following projects:

libVLC

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

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

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

SDL - DEPRECATED: Official development moved to GitHub

SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

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.

QtAv - A cross-platform multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. 基于Qt和FFmpeg的跨平台高性能音视频播放框架. Recommand to use new sdk https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-sdk

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

MediaInfoLib - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

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]