CLUSTER VIDEO-DESKTOP-FILES · 25 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-12-19
Local media player applications
This cluster consists of desktop and mobile media players that primarily play local audio and video files, with variations adding online streaming, cloud providers, playlists, subtitles, metadata, visual effects, and casting. Dated history before the index covers 2017-12 to 2026-07, with a sparse, irregular entry pattern of typically one per month, except for a January 2025 month with three entries, showing no clear shape. The traction leaders are meguri, mediachips-bin, and stockholm-trekkers-playlist-maker-bin, each with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled
Operator · 1 indie · 4 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21kast-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that casts local video files with subtitles from a computer to a networked display device.
- 22lingmo-videoplayer0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop video player application that plays local media files through a graphical interface supporting common video and audio formats.
- 23mingw-w64-mpv0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceVideo player application that plays a wide range of video and audio file formats.
- 24Filmographer0★unknownliveindieDesktop application that lets users browse and play their entire local movie collection with a single click.
- 25deadbeef-vs0★unknownliveopen sourceCross-platform desktop application for playing local audio files across a wide range of formats.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.