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Aurora Media Player vs mpv: catalog facts
Aurora Media Player	mpv
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0.	Free Free software with no paid version.
Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Plays most formats through mpv and ffmpeg Online URL playback with yt-dlp bundled	High quality video output through OpenGL, Vulkan and D3D11, with scaling, colour management, frame timing… Hardware decoding on most platforms, switchable at runtime with --hwdec
Linux only Flathub package not yet available	There is no real graphical interface, only a small on-screen controller over the video Configuration means editing mpv.conf and input.conf by hand
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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