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CLUSTER PLAYER-VIDEO-ACCELERATED · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-07-03

Hardware-accelerated media players

This cluster covers media players emphasizing hardware-accelerated playback, ranging from portable Windows devices to desktop players with adaptive viewing modes and streaming with upscaling. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only one dated entry exists before the index start, so the cluster likely predates the index or has undated members. Traction is led by As-Nolan-Intended with 10 stars, far ahead of MJMP (1 star) and mpv-anime-build (0 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 7
JUL 2026SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 7 hobby · 1 indie · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01mpv-anime-build0★12 daysliveopen sourceConfiguration preset for the mpv media player tuned for anime and high-quality video playback.
  2. 02As-Nolan-Intended11★1 mo—hobbyDisplay-aware cinematic video player that optimizes playback for the viewer's screen without altering the source image.
  3. 03dlss-rtxsr-upscaler2★24 days—hobbyWindows application that upscales and enhances videos using NVIDIA upscaling technologies while keeping all processing local.
  4. 04MJMP1★14 days—hobbyPortable Windows media player with broad codec support and GPU-accelerated playback for high-performance video.
  5. 05bendr-desktop0★17 days—hobbyDesktop video processor that manipulates live visuals with MIDI, OSC, and network video streaming for creative performance.
  6. 06frameinterp0★26 dayslivehobbyNative macOS video player that performs real-time frame interpolation to convert 24/30fps video to higher frame rates and adds GPU-based quality enhancement.
  7. 07Lazarus-Video-Player0★25 days—hobbyDesktop video player that renders high-quality playback with hardware decoding, HDR tone-mapping, and thumbnail scrubbing through a modern interface.
  8. 08mpv-rtx-video1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyWindows video player that enables NVIDIA RTX video super resolution and HDR, with modern UI and thumbnail previews, distributed as an installer.
  9. 09apple-tv0★24 days—hand-codedindieNative tvOS cinema client that streams video from TorrServer with hardware-accelerated playback and subtitle support.
  10. 10EcoTubeHQ0★29 daysliveopen sourceDesktop video player that streams and hardware-accelerates online video services with adjustable resolution and upscaling for smoother, lower-power playback.
  11. 11Clapper0★unknownliveopen sourceDesktop media player that plays videos with hardware-accelerated rendering and adaptive windowed, fullscreen, and floating viewing modes.

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