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Media Player Classic Qute Theater is a clone of Media Player Classic

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Media Player Classic Qute Theater uses libmpv’s powerful media presentation framework to play video instead of DirectShow.

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Showtime – GNOME media player

August 13, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Showtime is billed as a media player that lets you watch videos without any distraction. It’s written in Python.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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Television

Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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QtAV – cross-platform multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

QtAV is a multimedia playback framework based on Qt and FFmpeg.

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Dragon Player – multimedia player with a focus on simplicity

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Dragon Player is a multimedia player using Phonon technology where the focus is on simplicity, instead of features.

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Kaffeine – media player for KDE

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Kaffeine is a simple, easy to use, full featured media player for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

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GNOME Videos – movie player designed for GNOME

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

GNOME Videos is the official movie player of GNOME. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls.

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Parole – modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop.

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MPlayer – video player

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

MPlayer is a very popular movie player which runs on many systems including Linux. It has builtin support for the most common video and audio formats.

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