mpv VS VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Compare mpv vs VideoLAN Client (VLC) and see what are their differences.

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/ (by videolan)
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mpv VideoLAN Client (VLC)
830 379
25,874 12,959
2.4% 2.5%
9.9 0.0
5 days ago 23 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Posts with mentions or reviews of VideoLAN Client (VLC). We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mpv and VideoLAN Client (VLC) you can also consider the following projects:

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

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

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

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

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.

mpd - Music Player Daemon

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]

Emby - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.