streamlink VS mpv

Compare streamlink vs mpv and see what are their differences.

streamlink

Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player (by streamlink)
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streamlink mpv
131 830
9,560 25,874
1.2% 2.4%
9.6 9.9
2 days ago 7 days ago
Python C
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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streamlink

Posts with mentions or reviews of streamlink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-15.

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 streamlink and mpv you can also consider the following projects:

youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

TwitchLeecher - Twitch Leecher - The Broadcast Downloader

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

ytfzf - A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

streamlink-twitch-gui - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink

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

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

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.

VideoAdBlockForTwitch - Blocks Ads on Twitch.tv.

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