Awesome Cli Apps
Section: Video · Superior video player.
FreshScore 90
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mpv
Appears in 11 awesome lists
A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player that supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Designed for the command line, it offers powerful scripting capabilities for extensive customization. mpv provides high-quality video output with…
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Awesome Command Line (CLI/TUI) Programs
Section: Viewers · A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less…
FreshScore 83
Awesome Free Apps
Section: Video Players · Cross-platform media player with a simple interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
FreshScore 89
Awesome Free Software
Section: Video · Customizable multimedia player with scripting support. (GNU GPLv2)
SlowScore 57
Awesome Mac
Section: Audio and Video Tools · Free, open-source, and cross-platform media player.
FreshScore 94
Awesome MacOS
Section: Video · Media player.
FreshScore 85
Awesome mpv
Section: Cross-platform · Based on C/Lua.
SlowScore 65
Awesome Shell
Section: Multimedia and File Formats · Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
SlowScore 67
Awesome Video
Section: Players & Clients · A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player that supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Designed for the command line, it offers powerful scripting capabilities for extensive customization. mpv provides high-quality video output with…
ActiveScore 77
Awesome Windows
Section: Video Utilities · Script-based media player with extensive keyboard controls.
FreshScore 85
Awesome C
Section: Multimedia · Music-playing library. GPL-2.0-or-later
FreshScore 90
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yt-dlp
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Kodi
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VLC
VLC is a free and open-source multimedia player that also offers video conversion tools. It supports a wide range of formats and provides basic video encoding functionalities, making it a versatile tool for both media playback and simple encoding tasks.
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IINA
A modern, open source macOS media player built on mpv. IINA features a sleek UI, gesture support, and wide format compatibility.
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editly
A command-line tool for declarative video editing, allowing users to create videos programmatically using JSON configurations. It supports features like text overlays, transitions, and audio tracks, making it a valuable resource for developers seeking to automate video creation processes.
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streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.
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capcut-cli
by René Zander - A zero-dependency Node CLI (and Claude Code plugin/skill) that lets the agent edit CapCut / JianYing video projects programmatically — inspect timelines, build drafts, add text/audio, word-level captions and Whisper transcription, templates, and cut long-form into shorts — JSON…
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