mpv VS libVLC

Compare mpv vs libVLC and see what are their differences.

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mpv libVLC
830 -
25,752 -
1.9% -
9.9 -
6 days ago over 8 years ago
C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

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

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

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

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

SDL - DEPRECATED: Official development moved to GitHub

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.

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

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

AvCpp - C++ wrapper for FFmpeg