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

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01 · 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.

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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.

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  1. 01
    Mpc-hc mpc-hc.org English No trackers

    Home · MPC-HC

    MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows

    Compare Mpc-hc with mpv →
  2. 02
    VideoLAN videolan.org Top 10K English No trackers

    VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN

    VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!

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  3. 03
    Kodi kodi.tv

    free software media player

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  4. 04
    HandBrake handbrake.fr English No trackers

    HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

    HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.

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  5. 05
    Jellyfin jellyfin.org English No trackers

    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.

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  6. 06
    Enlightenment enlightenment.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Enlightenment Main

    window manager for Unix-like operating systems

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  7. 07
    Stremio stremio.com English 1 tracker

    Stremio - Freedom to Stream

    Watch videos, movies, TV series and TV channels instantly.

    Compare Stremio with mpv →
  8. 08
    Penpot penpot.app English No trackers

    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.

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    Inkscape inkscape.org English No trackers

    Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape

    Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.

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  10. 10
    Cygwin cygwin.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Cygwin

    Unix subsystem for Windows machines

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  11. 11
    Blender blender.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org

    The Freedom to Create

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  12. 12
    Clam AntiVirus clamav.net No trackers

    ClamAVNet

    antivirus software

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  13. 13
    Cal.com cal.com English 1 tracker

    Cal.com | Scheduling Software for Online Bookings

    The highest-rated scheduling system that helps you grow your business and better find time.

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  14. 14
    Aider aider.chat English No trackers

    Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal

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  15. 15
    doxygen.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

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  16. 16
    Sketch sketch.com English No trackers

    Sketch · Design, prototype, collaborate and handoff

    Sketch puts the focus back on you and your work. Made by designers, for designers.

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  17. 17
    Mux mux.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Mux with mpv →
  18. 18
    MyBB mybb.com No trackers

    MyBB - Free and Open Source Forum Software

    The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.

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    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

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.

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