Open-source Infuse alternatives

IINA is a video player designed for modern versions of macOS, written in Swift and released under the GPL-3.0 license. It uses mpv as its playback engine, which gives it broad decoding capability, and wraps it in a native Mac interface that supports Force Touch, picture-in-picture and Touch Bar controls.

Everyday features include subtitles, playlists and chapters, video thumbnails, online subtitle searching with local subtitle matching, and an unlimited playback history. A standalone Music Mode is designed for audio files. The interface is customizable, with several color schemes and a movable on-screen controller, and keyboard, mouse, trackpad and gesture controls can all be remapped.

Advanced users can reuse mpv configuration files and scripts, and a command-line tool and browser extensions are provided. Stable and beta builds are available from the website and GitHub releases, while nightly builds are generated automatically and may be unstable. IINA suits Mac users who want a polished player for video and music that can be tuned in depth.

Kodi is a media player and entertainment hub that plays most audio and video formats and organizes them into a browsable library. It is designed to work well on a home theater PC controlled with a remote from the couch, but it also works as an ordinary media player on a regular computer.

Point it at local folders or network shares and it scans the content, building a library with cover art and descriptions. It was designed for network playback, so media can be streamed from elsewhere in the house or from the internet over many protocols. Playlists, slideshows, a weather feature and audio visualizations are included, and the interface can be restyled with skins and extended with add-ons.

Kodi is written in C++ and Python and runs natively on Android, Linux, BSD, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows. It is developed by volunteers and run as a non-profit project by the XBMC Foundation, and it is available in more than 70 languages. The repository lists the license as 'Other', so check the project's license files for details.

VLC is a media player and multimedia engine from the VideoLAN project. It is built to play nearly anything, including most multimedia files, discs, streams and capture devices, and it can also convert, encode, stream and otherwise manipulate media into many formats.

The player is available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, BSD, Android, iOS and several other platforms, including Android TV, Apple TV and iPadOS. Its core is also packaged as libVLC, an engine that third-party applications can embed in their own software.

VLC is developed and supported by a community of volunteers and is written mainly in C. The player is released under GPLv2 or later, and on some platforms it effectively ends up GPLv3 because of dependency licenses, while libVLC uses the more permissive LGPLv2 or later so it can be embedded in applications under other licenses.

Streamyfin is a Jellyfin video streaming client for Android and iOS, built with Expo. It is presented as an alternative to other Jellyfin clients and aims for a smooth, reliable viewing experience when streaming from a Jellyfin media server you already run.

Playback features include skipping intros and credits, trickplay thumbnail previews while seeking, and casting to Chromecast devices. Media can be downloaded for offline viewing, using FFmpeg to convert an HLS stream into a local file while Jellyfin transcodes on the server. The app also integrates with Seerr, formerly Jellyseerr, so users can request media directly, and shows a sessions view of everything currently streaming on the server.

A companion Jellyfin plugin stores client settings on the server so they can be synchronized across users, and custom authentication headers allow connections to servers sitting behind an access gateway such as Cloudflare Zero Trust or Pangolin. Streamyfin is licensed under MPL-2.0 and written in TypeScript. The download and Chromecast features are marked experimental.

Cinetry is a free multimedia player for enthusiasts that brings content from the media servers a user has set up themselves into one interface. Supported sources include Jellyfin, Emby, CMS sites, WebDAV and Alist, Subsonic-style servers such as Navidrome, audiobookshelf, IPTV lists, and some Chinese media services. The documentation is in Chinese.

It offers data import, aggregated search across several servers, and one-click switching between them. The app is a purely local client: it does not scan libraries, only fetches the data needed for the page being shown, and the developer says it does not collect, store, or transmit personal information or server data. It provides no media itself.

Clients are available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and TV, with iOS distributed through TestFlight invitations and other install methods. A Docker web version is listed as a work in progress. It suits people who run several media servers and want a consistent player across devices, and the license is not stated in the input.