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VLC media player vs MPC-QT: catalog facts
VLC media player	MPC-QT
Free Free software from a non-profit; there is no paid tier and no advertising in the player.	Free Free, with source code on GitHub.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS	Windows, Linux
Plays an unusually wide list of codecs and containers out of the box, including MPEG-1/2, H.264, H.265, VP8/VP9… No spyware, no advertising and no user tracking, stated on the project feature page	Familiar MPC-HC interface and behaviour libmpv playback engine
The stable desktop line is still 3.0.23; the 4.0 interface rewrite has not shipped The interface is functional rather than modern, and advanced options are buried in preference dialogs	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	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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