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vivi

Fast, lightweight Rust media player (Slint + libmpv) inspired by Juxtopposed's VLC redesign.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

vivi is a media player.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: lyrics display, playlists, plugins and add-ons, hardware acceleration, equaliser.

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
  • “Vivi is a fast, lightweight desktop media player for Linux written in Rust on top of mpv: plugins, music visualizer, synced lyrics, library and a clean dark UI.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Vivi is a fast, lightweight desktop media player for Linux written in Rust on top of mpv: plugins, music visualizer, synced lyrics, library and a clean dark UI.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Jamendo links to its site) • Network Streams / IPTV: radio, iptv-org TV, M3U playlists, XMLTV now/next guide, favorites • Remote Control: control playback from your phone, pair with a QR code • MCP: let Claude,…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Jamendo links to its site) • Network Streams / IPTV: radio, iptv-org TV, M3U playlists, XMLTV now/next guide, favorites • Remote Control: control playback from your phone, pair with a QR code • MCP: let Claude,…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Plays anything mpv plays, with hardware decoding, on Wayland, X11, Windows and macOS” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Equalizer & effects, seek-bar previews (Chapter Thumbnails extension), miniplayer, music visualizer, MPRIS, light/dark themes” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of vivi is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

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 Loafer19/vivi (MIT)

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