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Bing-r – desktop IPTV and media player

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Bing-r is a desktop IPTV and media player for M3U playlists, live TV, VOD, channel filtering, favourites and hardware-accelerated playback.

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Music

Revisited: SparkPlayer – visually appealing media player now with gapless playback

September 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

SparkPlayer adds gapless playback for seamless album listening, alongside visualizers, album art, video support and broad format compatibility.

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Video

16 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv

July 2, 2026 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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Musical instruments

BinauralPlayer – media player

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

BinauralPlayer integrates audio and video playback with tools for generating binaural beats and brainwave-based audio signals.

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Parlatype – media player for transcription

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Television

MPC-QT – Qt media player inspired by Media Player Classic

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MPC-QT is a Qt media player inspired by Media Player Classic, using libmpv for playback with playlists, previews, queues and online video.

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Video

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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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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Video

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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Video

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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Video

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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Video

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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Video

Parole – lightweight media player for Xfce

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parole is a lightweight GTK media player for Xfce using GStreamer, with local media, subtitles, optical discs, streams and plugin support.

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Video

MPlayer – powerful command-line media player

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

MPlayer is a powerful command-line media player for Linux with broad format support, subtitles, filters, streaming and flexible output.

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Video

SMPlayer – graphical front-end for MPlayer and mpv

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

SMPlayer is a Qt media player front-end for MPlayer and mpv with subtitles, filters, playlists, streaming and extensive playback controls.

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Internet Radio

Quod Libet – GTK+-based audio player

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several ways to view your audio library, as well internet radio and audio feeds.

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Video Conversion

VLC – Cross-Platform Multimedia Player and Framework

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

VLC is a versatile multimedia player and framework that handles a huge range of audio, video, disc and streaming formats on Linux.

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Video Conversion

mpv – cross-platform media player

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv is a powerful command-line media player with high-quality video output, hardware decoding, scripting and broad format support.

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Television

xine – plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs

January 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

xine is a powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback. It also serves as a library and engine for other software products.

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Raspberry Pi 4 - Home Theater

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Home Theater – Week 11

January 8, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

Kodi is free, open-source software for managing your local collection of movies, television shows, music, and photos. It’s the finest free home theatre software available.

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