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Media players and servers covers software for playing, streaming, and organising video and audio files. Listings include desktop players, home media servers, sync tools, and add-ons for streaming setups. What matters is the file formats and codecs each one supports, whether they transcode on the fly, and how they organise a large library across drives or devices. Some entries are clients that connect to third-party sources the tool does not control, so what you can play depends on what you are allowed to access in your region. Check the source rights and the licence before you install anything.
MotionMonkey is a semantic player for touch devices designed to stream internet videos from text queries. It aggregates videos through the VBML language and supports sources including DuckDuckGo, BitTorrent, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Twitch, TikTok and SoundCloud. It is built in C++ with the Sky kit on the Qt framework, with a QML interface rendered with OpenGL and a player based on VLC and libtorrent.
Tracker is a resource that tracks the working status, update freshness, and crowdsourced voting for Kodi streaming add-ons. It helps users identify currently functional, recently updated add-ons as well as broken or abandoned options.
VideoTogether is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
MPV client list is a resource for MPV, a free, open-source media player noted for accurate color reproduction, modern codec support, and better performance than VLC. It provides download links for MPV and its third-party graphical user interface clients.
EverythingKodi is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Hooke007 Github Io is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
PVR IPTV Simple Client is a Kodi PVR add-on for IPTV support. It supports m3u playlists, streaming of Live TV from multicast or unicast sources, radio channels and EPG. The wiki states that it is not yet stable software and advises disabling all PVR add-ons before installation.
A guide describing a home media server setup using Jellyfin along with Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr. It explains that Jellyfin is a free and open-source client/server media player system available for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and that Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr automate downloading episodes and movies. The page covers Jellyfin configuration steps and interface setup.
Media Player Classic - BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. It is based on the original Media Player Classic project and Media Player Classic Home Cinema, with additional features and bug fixes. It plays various video and audio files and supports hardware decoding and deinterlacing.
MPV Config Guide is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
MPV Context Menu is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
A simpler version of the mpv SponsorBlock plugin that includes only the sponsor skipping functionality. It requires curl unless videos are downloaded with --sponsorblock-mark, and sha256sum if a hash option is enabled. Options are listed in a configuration file.
Play With MPV is a userscript page for browser customization, automation, or interface changes.
A community-driven database for intro, recap, credits, and preview timestamps for TV shows and movies. Related projects include plugins and addons for Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi, Stremio Enhanced and IINA, an MPV script, a browser extension, an NPM package and a Plex sync tool.
mergerfs is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Video Help is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
r/htpc is a Reddit community or thread with discussion, guides, updates, or shared resources.
YouTube Addon is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Jellyfin Forum is the official community discussion platform for the Jellyfin media server project. It hosts organized sections for forum announcements, project release updates, user support guides and tutorials, and discussions of custom themes and styles for Jellyfin instances.
quasar is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
StreamLink is a command-line utility that extracts video streams from various services and pipes them into a video player such as VLC or mpv. It uses a plugin system to support services including Twitch and YouTube, and a Python API is available for developers. The project was forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer maintained.
An extended guide for configuring mpv.conf, the configuration file for the mpv media player. It presents recommended settings and profiles covering general options, OSD, screenshots, language priorities, video output and hardware decoding, with the note that options are optimized for anime content.
Reddit link is a Reddit community or thread with discussion, guides, updates, or shared resources.
Trending is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
