hexchat VS mpv

Compare hexchat vs mpv and see what are their differences.

hexchat

GTK+ IRC client (by hexchat)

mpv

🎥 Command line video player (by mpv-player)
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hexchat mpv
22 830
2,986 25,530
- 2.3%
0.0 9.9
about 2 months ago 7 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

hexchat

Posts with mentions or reviews of hexchat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-30.

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 hexchat and mpv you can also consider the following projects:

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

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/

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.

mpv.net - 🎞 mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI.

libVLC

obs-ndi - NewTek NDI integration for OBS Studio