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DeckVideoPlayer

Video player for Steam Deck and SteamOS Game Mode: controller UI, HDR, hardware decoding; local folders, SD card, SMB shares, Plex, Jellyfin and DLNA. Built on mpv.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

DeckVideoPlayer is a media player, available on Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository: hardware acceleration and casting to other devices (Chromecast, DLNA…).

Services and protocols mentioned: SMB.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Video player for Steam Deck and SteamOS Game Mode: controller UI, HDR, hardware decoding; local folders, SD card, SMB shares, Plex, Jellyfin and DLNA.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Video player for Steam Deck and SteamOS Game Mode: controller UI, HDR, hardware decoding; local folders, SD card, SMB shares, Plex, Jellyfin and DLNA.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Video player for Steam Deck and SteamOS Game Mode: controller UI, HDR, hardware decoding; local folders, SD card, SMB shares, Plex, Jellyfin and DLNA.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

DeckVideoPlayer is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub nicocarbone/DeckVideoPlayer (GPL-2.0-only)

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