The Best Flyleaf Alternatives in 2026

Rise Media Player brings together playback for videos, music, discs, and streaming services in a WinUI application.

Control MPD from a configurable terminal client with rmpc, which supports album art via terminal image protocols.

tuliprox processes and proxies IPTV playlists, with support for M3U, Xtream Codes, HDHomeRun, Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin.

xTeVe proxies M3U playlists for Plex DVR and Emby Live TV, with options to merge and update M3U and XMLTV files.

MPC-BE is a Windows player for audio and video files, derived from Media Player Classic code.

Streamlink pipes streams from supported services into a media player through its command-line utility and Python library.

Musikcube combines a terminal music player with an audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in C++.

MPC-QT reimplements much of the Media Player Classic interface with Qt and uses libmpv for video playback.

Play multiple videos side by side with gridplayer, a desktop video player project.

This mpv script ports SponsorBlock to the player and skips sponsored segments in YouTube videos.

Kawaii-Player combines multimedia playback, media library management, and a portable media server with PC-to-PC casting.

uosc adds a proximity-based on-screen interface to the mpv media player.

Syncplay synchronizes playback position and play state across media players such as mpv, VLC, MPC-HC, and MPC-BE over the internet.

Quod Libet is a music player and library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Swing Music is a self-hosted player for local audio files, according to its project description.

Museeks provides a cross-platform music player with a simple interface, according to its project description.

Strawberry provides music playback through its player project, with source code and releases on GitHub.

Use MPC-HC to play video and audio on Windows, with support for third-party filters in this free, open-source project.

VideoClip creates video and audio clips with mpv, saving them as MP4 or WebM and allowing subtitles to be embedded.

Serve files from a directory over UPnP DLNA with DMS, a media server that includes basic video transcoding.

This Ansible playbook automates a home media server stack running in Docker, with options including GPU acceleration and SSL.

PlexKodiConnect synchronizes media from a Plex server into Kodi’s native database for browsing through Kodi.

H5player enhances audio and video playback on websites, with listed features including playback speed controls, screen capture, and downloads.

Exaile combines cross-platform music playback with music library management capabilities.