mpv.io
mpv
Who runs mpv, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest media player software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mpc-hc
Measured from mpv’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit mpv01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs mpv
mpv mpv.io
a free, open source, and cross-platform media player
Wikidata: free and open-source media player
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What mpv tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on mpv’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to mpv
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to mpv, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Home · MPC-HC
MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows
Very close - 02
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Very close - 03 Kodi kodi.tv
free software media player
Very close - 04
HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.
Very close - 05
The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.
Close - 06
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 07
Stremio - Freedom to Stream
Watch videos, movies, TV series and TV channels instantly.
Close - 08
Penpot: The open-source design platform for teams.
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams building digital products at scale, enabling deeper collaboration across design, code, and AI workflows.
Very close - 09
Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape
Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.
Close - 10
Cygwin
Unix subsystem for Windows machines
Close - 11
Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
The Freedom to Create
Close - 12
ClamAVNet
antivirus software
Close - 13
Cal.com | Scheduling Software for Online Bookings
The highest-rated scheduling system that helps you grow your business and better find time.
Close - 14
Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal
Close - 15
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close - 16
Sketch · Design, prototype, collaborate and handoff
Sketch puts the focus back on you and your work. Made by designers, for designers.
Close - 17
Video API for developers | Mux
Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
Close - 18
MyBB - Free and Open Source Forum Software
The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.
Close - 19 Close
- 20 DokuWiki dokuwiki.org
wiki software
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles mpv’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones mpv uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what mpv adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to mpv’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/zepto/1.2.0/zepto.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577d332fe9dfcbb-HAM
- Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 17f247e6260f49a1166416aac1e6751cff987782
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS yichun.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=7Ym-u-CYKcsAftKwJqUqOwDwcBooYf2GlTppsQv3LWY
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on mpv.io 11/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on mpv.io 5/20
- nginx · not on mpv.io 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on mpv.io 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on mpv.io 3/20
- jQuery · not on mpv.io 3/20
- Next.js · not on mpv.io 3/20
- React · not on mpv.io 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on mpv.io 3/20
- OpenAI · not on mpv.io 3/20
- Fastly 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on mpv.io 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on mpv.io 2/20