libVLC VS mpv

Compare libVLC vs mpv and see what are their differences.

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libVLC mpv
- 830
- 25,874
- 2.4%
- 9.9
over 8 years ago about 1 hour ago
C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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libVLC

Posts with mentions or reviews of libVLC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning libVLC yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 libVLC and mpv you can also consider the following projects:

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

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

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

SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

SDL - DEPRECATED: Official development moved to GitHub

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

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

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.

AvCpp - C++ wrapper for FFmpeg

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