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Life & fun · October 2, 2025

Material Player

A beautiful video player built on the same engine as VLC.

Material Player launched on October 2, 2025 with 8 votes, #1,955 of 8,178 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

Skip the ads and bloat. Material Player offers pure video playback experience with VLC's powerful libvlc engine wrapped in a beautiful design.

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