Quintessential Media Player

Quintessential Media Player: Open-Source Cross-Platform Media Player & Framework

An open-source media player for audio, video, and images, aiming for speed, low weight, and customization with plugins.

What is Quintessential Media Player?

Quintessential Media Player (QMP) is an open-source, cross-platform media player application and framework written in C++. It plays various media file formats including audio, video, and image files. Some key features of QMP include:

• Supports a wide range of media formats like MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC for audio and MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV for video.
• Built with portability in mind - works across Windows, macOS, Linux and other Unix-like systems.
• Offers a simple but highly customizable user interface using skins and themes.
• Extensible architecture that allows developers to create plugins to add features.
• Uses hardware acceleration features of modern graphic cards for smooth HD video playback.
• Bundles various optional components like audio equalizer, audio/video streaming server and client etc.
• Lightweight design and aims to offer good performance, especially on older computers.
• Open-source (LGPL) program developed by a community of developers and translators.

Overall, Quintessential Media Player strives to be a fast, lightweight yet flexible cross-platform media playing framework suitable for casual and power users alike.

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