VideoLAN Client (VLC) VS Invidious

Compare VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs Invidious 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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VideoLAN Client (VLC) Invidious
379 415
12,814 14,471
2.7% 3.0%
2.3 9.5
9 days ago 9 days ago
C Crystal
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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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.

Invidious

Posts with mentions or reviews of Invidious. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.

What are some alternatives?

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

Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end

SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit

Tube - 📺 tube is a Youtube-like (without censorship and features you don't need!) Video Sharing App written in Go which also supports automatic transcoding to MP4 H.265 AAC, multiple collections and RSS feed.

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

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

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