Open Source Linux Media Players
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View 25 business solutionsBrowse free open source Media Players and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Media Players by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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GraphicsMagick
Swiss army knife of image processing
GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license. -
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QtScrcpy
Android real-time display control software
QtScrcpy connects to Android devices via USB (or via TCP/IP) for display and control. It does NOT require the root privileges. It supports three major platforms: GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS. You can write your own script to map keyboard and mouse actions to touches and clicks of the mobile phone according to your needs. A script for "PUBG mobile" and TikTok mapping is provided by default. Once enabled, you can play the game with your keyboard and mouse as the PC version. or you can use up/down/left/right direction keys to simulate up/down/left/right sliding. You can also write your own mapping files for other games according to writing rules. If you are interested in it and want to learn how it works but do not know how to get started, you can choose to purchase my recorded video lessons. It details the development architecture and the development process of the entire software, and help you develop QtScrcpy from scratch. -
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VLC media player
The best free media player for video and DVDs
VLC is an open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, which plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player is simple, fast, and powerful. It plays everything, files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams. VLC plays most codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, etc.) so no codec packs are needed. It runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, etc. And VLC is hassle free with no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking. -
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libmng -THE reference library for reading, displaying, writing and examining Multiple-Image Network Graphics. MNG is the animation extension to the popular PNG image-format.
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FrostWire
Search, Download, Play, Share on Bittorrent and the cloud
FrostWire https://www.frostwire.com/ is a media player, Video Downloader and Peer to Peer (P2P) information sharing client for the BitTorrent network. This project is not affiliated with LimeWire LLC. FrostWires' source code is Licensed under the GNU GPL and Apache Open Source licenses. System Requirements Any of the following operating systems: ● Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista for Intel processors (64-bit only) ● Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or later (64-bit) ● Linux, Unix such as Solaris (64-bit) ● Android 7.0 or later 256 MB of RAM (512 MB Recommended) An active internet connection -
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OpenLP - Free Church Worship Software
Free church worship presentation software
Open Source Worship Presentation Software. This project has moved to Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/openlp -
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mpv.net for Windows
mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI
mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI. The player is based on the popular mpv media player. mpv.net is designed to be mpv compatible, and almost all mpv features are available, this means the official mpv manual applies to mpv.net, differences are documented in the mpv.net manual. -
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FreeTube
An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
FreeTube is an open-source and cross-platform desktop YouTube client built with privacy and user control as its core goals. Instead of relying on the official YouTube API, FreeTube uses its own extractor or community-friendly alternatives to fetch video data, which lets users watch YouTube content without advertisements and prevents Google from tracking them through cookies or JavaScript while browsing or viewing videos. Subscriptions, playlists, viewing history, and other user data are stored locally on the user’s machine rather than on remote servers, giving users full ownership over their content preferences and histories. The app provides many features similar to the official YouTube experience — such as subscribing to channels, exploring trending content, and organizing playlists — while also offering privacy-centric options like using Tor or external proxies and hiding elements via distraction-free settings. -
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mrViewer
Flipbook, Image Viewer and Audio-Video Player
This project is no longer active. It has been replaced by mrv2 at: www.sourceforge.net/p/mrv2 A video player, interactive image viewer, and flipbook for use in VFX, 3D computer graphics and professional illustration. -
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xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, BluRays and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.
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GSYVideoPlayer
Android video player library
GSYVideoPlayer is a flexible, feature-rich video playback library for Android that wraps popular media engines to offer a unified, customizable API. It supports full-screen playback, small-window (picture-in-picture–style) modes, and seamless orientation changes with proper lifecycle handling. The library provides gesture controls for brightness, volume, and seeking, along with thumbnail covers, playback speed adjustment, and caching options for smoother viewing on unreliable networks. Developers can embed players in RecyclerView lists, wire custom controls, and switch underlying renderers or decoders to match device capabilities and formats. Hooks for callbacks and state listeners make it straightforward to integrate analytics, preloading, and error recovery into apps. With a modular design and extensive demos, GSYVideoPlayer serves both as a practical production player and as a reference for building polished media experiences on Android. -
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Eagle Mode
Zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers and more
Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, games, and more. This project is about a futuristic style of human-computer interaction, where the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It features a portable C++ toolkit API for developing such ZUIs, and it features the Eagle Mode application, which provides a virtual cosmos with plugin applications. The most important one is the professional file manager with its rich, scriptable command set. It integrates file viewers for most of the common file types, as well as an audio and video player. Furthermore, the virtual cosmos contains a chess game, a netwalk game, a 3D minesweeper game, a multi-function clock, a stock watchlist, some fractals, and a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch. -
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CasparCG: Pro Video & Graphics Play-Out
Pro Video & Graphics Play-Out SW, proven in 24/7 broadcasts since 2006
Playback and record video, graphics and audio to multiple screens via DVI/HDMI/SDI in SD, HD, 2K and 4K. -
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Subsonic is a web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video collection. More than 20 apps are available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Roku, Chumby, Sonos etc. Supports virtually all media formats, converting files on the fly. Also includes a Podcast receiver and jukebox feature allowing you to control what's playing on your computer from your mobile phone.
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XdTV allows you to watch, record & stream TV. It interacts with AleVT & Nxtvepg & supports the bttv, bktr & dvb APIs. It contains some deinterlacing filters and record video with various containers (AVI, MPEG, OGG..) and many codecs (FFMpeg, XviD, Ogg..)
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Multimedia architecture consisting of libraries and applications. Libraries include gavl for low level audio/video support and gmerlin_avdecoder, a multiformat decoding library. Applications include a GUI player with mediatree and a GUI transcoder.
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locomote-video-player
Media Player in Adobe Flash with RTSP support
Locomote Video Player is an extensible Flash-based video player created by Axis Communications. It supports various streaming protocols including HLS, RTMP, and progressive MP4, and is built with an event-driven plugin system for customizing playback behavior. Though now deprecated due to Flash's decline, it was used in surveillance, broadcasting, and enterprise video applications. -
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Penguin Subtitle Player
An open-source, cross-platform standalone subtitle player
-- Update -- The slow timer problem has been fixed since v0.2.1 which is released on 19/08/2015. Please re-download it if you encounter the delay. --------------- Penguin Subtitle Player is an open-source, cross-platform standalone subtitle player, as an alternative to Greenfish Subtitle Player, SrtViewer (Mac), SRTPlayer, JustSubsPlayer and Free Subtitle Player. You download the subtitle file (.srt, .ssa, .ass, .vtt) file from any sites you like and load it into the subtitle player. The subtitle player provides a translucent window which always stays on the top so that subtitles can be shown on top of the video without blocking anything. With Penguin Subtitle Player, just open your favorite online streaming site, load the subtitle file into the player, and enjoy. -
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SPACE is a Software Architecture developed by Philips for its range of TV displays. It is based on Linux and DirectFB technologies. jointSPACE opens the TV APIs to let you develop new applications and run them on the TV.
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A multimedia authoring and processing framework and a video playout server for television broadcasting.
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TV-Viewer is a frontend to watch and record TV. Designed for analog TV-cards working with ivtv, pvrusb2 or cx18 driver and others with a build-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. The Gui is written in Tk, so it does not rely on a special desktop environment.
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xjadeo
The X Jack Video Monitor
X JAck viDEo mOnitor: xjadeo is a program that displays a video clip in sync with an external time source, most notably jack-transport, LTC and MTC. Applications include: soundtrack composition/editing, video monitoring and -installations. -
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DVDx 4.0 is a very easy to use audio/video encoder and a powerful DVD copier. Read DVDs and audio/video files, encode to popular video formats: (S)VCD/CVD/DVD, Xvid/Divx, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, QuickTime, Flash Video, Ogg, WebM, AC.3, MP3, MP4/AAC etc.
