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GridPlayer

GridPlayer is a media player, available on Windows and Linux: playlists.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

GridPlayer is a media player, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: playlists.

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
  • “Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

GridPlayer 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
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Simple VLC-based video player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc. Built using Python, Qt and VLC. Features: Cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows) Support for any video and audio format (VLC) Support for (almost) any streaming URLs (streamlink + yt-dlp) Hardware and software video decoding Control video aspect, playback speed, zoom Set loop fragments with frame percision Configurable grid layout Easy swap videos with drag-n-drop Playlist retains settings for each video

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (source code, publisher, licence, platforms, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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