Grid Player is a simple, open source media player based on VLC that can play multiple videos simultaneously.
If you want to see several videos together, put side by side for comparison purposes or for demonstration purposes then try Grid Player. It accepts multiple videos and plays them together on one screen.
You can play as many videos as you want, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all the video formats that VLC supports (which is basically all of them).
You can save your playlist keeping information about each video's position, volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.
You can pause and perform other operations on these videos individually. You can play them in delay mode or in sync mode. Especially with synchronized playback of multiple videos, you can compare them.
Main Features of Grid Player:
- Cross-platform : Works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
- Open source. The full source code is available at GitHub.
- Plays as many videos as you want in a grid frame or as many as your graphics card can handle.
- Support for any video and audio format (that VLC also plays).
- Support for (almost) any stream URL (streamlink and yt-dlp).
- Control video aspect, playback speed, zoom, etc
- Set pieces of the video in a frame-accurate loop.
- Adjustable grid layout.
- Easily switch videos with simple drag-n-drop functionality.
- The playlist maintains the settings for each video. You can save ad insertion playlists at any time.
- Multi-language support. No Greek.
- You can choose to let it decode videos using hardware (GPU) or software (CPU).
- Screenshots of videos playing in grids.
Overall Grid Player is a decent free video comparison and presentation tool. If you don't want to install it on Windows, you can use the portable version it has.
