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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.
The Skins category on Kodi lists add-ons that change the media player's interface. The page states Kodi is a free media player designed for large television screens and also suited to small screens. The category contains 13 add-ons, including Confluence, Aeon Nox: SiLVO, and Transparency!.
SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs. It is a graphical user interface for MPlayer and can also play YouTube videos. It remembers the settings of each file played, resuming at the same point with the same audio track, subtitles and volume. It also supports mpv and offers subtitle search and download from opensubtitles.org.
VIP is a userscript page for browser customization, automation, or interface changes.
A step-by-step guide for streaming and saving YouTube videos in the MPC-HC player using yt-dlp as a helper. It explains placing yt-dlp.exe and ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder, opening links and saving copies, plus quality selection and notes on which builds are available.
ansible-hms-docker is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
r/softwarr is a Reddit community or thread with discussion, guides, updates, or shared resources.
OpenVideo is a browser extension that detects videos on video streaming platforms and plays them in an ad-free player, allowing users to watch or download videos and movies without ads or popups.
Reddit link is a Reddit community or thread with discussion, guides, updates, or shared resources.
Jellyfin allows users to customize the appearance of the web interface by applying custom CSS. The documentation states that custom CSS is only applied to clients that use Jellyfin Web and that support is not provided for issues caused by custom CSS.
The WIP Skins section is a subforum of the Kodi Community Forum for skins in progress. Threads cover skins such as Arctic Fuse, Arctic: Zephyr, Bingie and Aeon Core, with some marked deprecated or beta. It also contains important threads on thread tagging and rules for the subforum.
ArtCNN is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Custom Builder is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
AutoSubSync MPV is an automatic subtitle synchronization script for the mpv media player. It is hosted on GitHub as the repository joaquintorres/autosubsync-mpv. The script automatically adjusts subtitle timing to match the media playback.
A wiki page for the /r/htpc sub-reddit that offers browsable and searchable information relating to HTPCs. It includes a FAQ, hardware components guide, pre-built and DIY builds guide, audio, video, HDR, storage and 3D setup guides, a term reference, NUC and CPU cooler lists, and verified HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2 motherboards.
Awesome Jellyfin is a curated collection of resources for the Jellyfin media server. It includes plugins, themes, guides, and other related content. The list is maintained on GitHub under the organization awesome-jellyfin.
Awesome Video is a curated list of streaming video tools, frameworks, libraries, and learning resources. It is hosted on GitHub and aims to collect valuable resources for developers working with video streaming technologies.
Awesome VLC is a curated list of resources related to VLC media player and LibVLC. It includes native plugins, web extensions, Lua scripts, documentation, and other helpful materials. The collection is maintained on GitHub by mfkl.
Awesome-MPV is a curated list of resources for the mpv media player. It covers the player itself, cross-platform usage, and platform-specific notes such as for Windows. The list is maintained on GitHub by stax76.
Blink is a modern desktop client for the Jellyfin media server. It is built using Tauri and React. The project is hosted on GitHub under the repository prayag17/Blink and aims to provide a sleek desktop experience.
A gist containing CAS-scaled.glsl, described as AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening v1.0.2 for mpv, ported to mpv by agyild. The shader operates directly on the LUMA plane and includes optimized texture lookups for OpenGL 4.0+, DirectX 10+ and OpenGL ES 3.1+. It is released under a permissive license from Advanced Micro Devices.
Chocolate is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Dim is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
Dispatcharr is an open-source project for managing IPTV streams, EPG data and VOD content. It combines streams from multiple providers in one interface and emulates an HDHomeRun tuner so Plex, Emby or Jellyfin discover it as a live TV source. It includes a built-in DVR and exports as M3U, Xtream Codes API or HDHomeRun device.
dizqueTV creates live TV channel streams from media on Plex servers. Channels, programs, commercials and settings are configured in a web UI. The spoofed HDHomeRun tuner can be added to Plex, Jellyfin or Emby, or the M3U URL used with third-party IPTV players. It ships as a Docker image and prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac.
