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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.
MPC-QT is a cross-platform multimedia player that reproduces most of the interface and functionality of Media Player Classic Home Cinema using Qt, and plays video with libmpv instead of DirectShow. It is not a strict clone and includes some improvements.
Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams the user's own videos, music, photos, and live TV to devices. It runs on a computer or NAS in the home network, and apps are available for TVs, phones, tablets, computers, and streaming devices. Users can create individual users and set parental controls.
quasar is a video tool for encoding, conversion, repair, playback, editing, or processing workflows.
SMTube is a free, open-source YouTube browser for SMPlayer that allows browsing, searching and playing YouTube videos. Videos are played with a media player such as SMPlayer instead of a flash player, which the site states gives better performance, particularly with HD content. On Windows it is distributed as an SMPlayer plugin.
Jellyfin is a free software media system for collecting, managing and streaming media from a user-run server to client devices. It is an alternative to Emby and Plex and is descended from Emby's 3.5.2 release, ported to .NET Core. The project states there are no premium licenses or features.
