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ferricone

Ferricone Player: a media player for Linux on VLC's own engine, libVLC 4, with a new interface in Rust and Slint.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

ferricone is a media player, available on Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: hardware acceleration, subtitles, playlists, equaliser and casting to other devices (Chromecast, DLNA…).

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
  • “A media player for Linux on VLC” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Ferricone plays everything VLC plays: the formats, hardware decoding, network streams and subtitles all come from libVLC 4, bundled in every package.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “The interface is new and follows Juxtopposed's "VLC Redesign": a library beside the player, settings that remember a show, and a subtitle timeline. • Player.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Play the rest of the folder, M3U8 playlists, and what happens when something ends (offer the next one, play it, stop or quit). • Library.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Video, audio and subtitle settings with live filters, an equalizer, and presets saved per folder: fix a subtitle delay once and it sticks for the whole show. • Subtitles.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Play on Chromecast and UPnP devices on your network.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-3.0) 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: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub NobleDoodle/ferricone (GPL-3.0-only)

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