Media Player Classic Qute Theater (“Mpc-Qt”) is a cross-platform multimedia player with a focus on reproducing the interface of Media Player Classic Home Cinema (“MPC-HC”).
Introduction
MPC-HC is considered by many to be the quintessential media player for the Windows desktop. Mpc-Qt is a cross-platform application that uses Qt to reproduce most of the interface and functionality of MPC-HC, and uses libmpv’s powerful media presentation framework to play video instead of DirectShow. It is not a strict clone; there are some improvements.
Advances for me:
A video preview is shown on the seek bar (v. 25.07)
No sound distortion with jumping along video with using PulseAudio output (I have this problem with VLC)
I tried a lot of video players, and [QMPlay2](https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2) is the best for Linux. Not only does it have a much nicer interface than VLC, but just like VLC it’s extremely configurable and flexible. I’ve been using it for over five years and it has nothing to envy any other player—on the contrary, it’s very flexible in terms of configuration and also when it comes to its interface. It has a ton of modules you can turn on or off as you need. Plus, it’s in openSUSE’s official repositories.
It’s just now that I’m searching for an alternative to VLC too,
as it doesn’t seem to provide real crossfeed.
(Yes, I know there is a setting at stereo widening,
but that’s not what crossfeed is about).
Moreover gapless playback (for concept music albums) is
important to me.
And a last thing: I like to have the player not only play playlists
but can play media one-by-one in a folder.
Any recommodantion welcome
Since I have quite a lot of concept albums, live albums, and jazz albums that suffer in my ears from not played gapless ( well, vinyl has to be turned ), I found in the past Amarok did that very well. Maybe not perfectly gapless (1 ms?), but not human audible. What made it even more awesome were the built-in featuress of lyrics, and even guitar tabs.
These days I have a subscription to $some_online_service, yet I have quite some albums with songs/tracks missing on that service, where my own collection has them. On the other hand, many albums have extra songs that I don’t have.
I’ve looked at many players / online options, but never found anything more complete, or even come close to it. To add, I don’t like these one-thing-plays-all-media apps. Music is a totally different thing than video. Of course live concerts with good video and audio are the exception there.
Well, then I hope you are buying your music. Not “feeding” musicians still is a big problem for musicians. Many people seem to think that they can live from just breathing and their passion.
No, it is not light-weight. Neither are browsers, office suites. On my hardware there is no need to accept crippled or limited “light-weight” over desired functionality. More features usually means higher RAM usage. But when I last looked at Amarok’s CPU usage, meh, nothing special after building the initial collection.
Back to the topic. IMHO (even not a fan of VLC’s interface) it is the best we have now. With the vlc-codecs it hanles almost all video formats.
For music you may have a look at deadbeef, it is quite configurable even if I don’t know if it will satisfy your specific requirements.
For crossfeed you may configure it directly on pipewire, even if it is no trivial task. That would apply to all players and sound output when you need it.
I had a closer look at mpc-qt (see first post) at Leap 15.6:
In v.23.12 from official repo the navigation buttons don’t show and also the logo.
In 20250809+git97.1587cf8 from repo AndnoVember:LXQt:Qt6.repo both do.
However: no crossfeed (so far) and (as in MPC-HC) probably no gapless playback.
And that is a home: repo, which is where packagers experiment with their builds. Might work fine today, break system thing tomorrow, nothing is tested, no guarantees.
The OP mentioned version 25.07 so likely on Tumbleweed. Leap 15.6 might still have a too outdated version and being near EOL I doubt that it will get an update.
Yes, my habit is to read a thread before replying.
In general, yes. That said, every piece of software contains bugs. These may not show immediately or easily discovered, but only appear in some future update. Like f.e. many CVE’s are unknown until discovered. In fact a real “guarantee” hence cannot be given.
I’m talking about one the main function of mpc-qt: start/pause/stop of a media,
which does not show up in the version of the official repo.
To my thinking that “shows immediately” and is “easily discovered”.
Are you using a full Plasma6 desktop? The multimedia buttons show if you have libQt6MultimediaWidgets6 installed.
Buttons are there and functional anyway, just the icons missing, so possibly OpenQA does not notice as well as any human tester using a full QT6 desktop.
Strictly speaking there is a packaging bug though, feel free to file a bug report at bugzilla.opensuse.org
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