8 alternatives to mpv

mpv-player/mpv — 🎥 Command line media player (37,727 stars, NOASSERTION, integration, ui).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from mpv-player/mpv itself (licence class: unknown), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• mifi/editly
  Slick, declarative command line video editing & API
  score 6.6/10 · MIT permissive · 5,579 stars · 28 components · search them
• teddy-van-jerry/fractal_designer
  This is an application to make fractal videos based on Qt, C++ and FFmpeg.
  score 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 16 stars · 374 components · search them
• cli/cli
  GitHub’s official command line tool
  score 7.5/10 · MIT permissive · 46,741 stars · 555 components · search them · alternatives
• changbadevs/ktvhttpcache
  A powerful media cache framework.
  score 5.3/10 · MIT permissive · 2,514 stars · 37 components · search them
• cookpete/auto-changelog
  Command line tool for generating a changelog from git tags and commit history
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,404 stars · 11 components · search them
• opentiny/tiny-cli
  🛠️ A flexible and extensible command line tool for OpenTiny and frontend.
  score 5.4/10 · MIT permissive · 143 stars · 72 components · search them
• pion/rtp
  A Go implementation of RTP
  score 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 479 stars · 33 components · search them
• jitsi/libjitsi
  Advanced Java media library for secure real-time audio/video communication.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 652 stars · 737 components · search them

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