streamlink VS VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Compare streamlink vs VideoLAN Client (VLC) 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)

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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streamlink VideoLAN Client (VLC)
131 379
9,560 12,959
1.2% 2.5%
9.6 0.0
2 days ago 25 days ago
Python C
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

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 streamlink and VideoLAN Client (VLC) you can also consider the following projects:

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

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

TwitchLeecher - Twitch Leecher - The Broadcast Downloader

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

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

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

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

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

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

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

mpd - Music Player Daemon