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mpv vs MPC-QT: catalog facts
mpv	MPC-QT
Free Free software with no paid version.	Free Free, with source code on GitHub.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, Linux
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	Familiar MPC-HC interface and behaviour libmpv playback engine
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	Aims to reproduce most, not all, MPC-HC functionality Repository page gives little detail on platform builds
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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