VideoLAN Client (VLC) VS mpv

Compare VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs mpv 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) mpv
379 830
12,959 25,874
2.5% 2.4%
0.0 9.9
22 days ago 4 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

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

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

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

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

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

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

mpd - Music Player Daemon

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.

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

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]