The 5 Best Video Players for Anime

Many people love to download anime online. After having downloaded a full anime series or movies on your devices, you’re able to enjoy the anime with less interruptions like lagging load caused by unstable net connection or continuous pop-ups. What’s more, platforms providing anime downloads are legion. You can easily download small encoded anime, download raw anime, or download dubbed anime in Hindi, English, Spanish, etc. With a huge collection of anime on your device, you need a simple yet powerful anime player. Although most media players are capable of dealing with anime video files, with a powerful anime player installed, it is less likely to run into unexceptional errors and the extra features of such a media player also enable you to enjoy anime in a far more pleasing way.

Here are our carefully selected best video players for anime based on functionalities, performances, as well as users’ feedback.

1. VLC Media Player

VLC is a versatile free media player that is suitable for virtually all media files, including some rarely heard ones. We have also included it in our lists of best ISO players, best HEVC players, as well as best VOB players. Since VLC packs all types of codecs in it, usually, there is no need to install an individual codec pack for VLC to extend its playback capability.

VLC is also loaded with an array of advanced playback features and extra tools. At the same time, it offers flexibly customizable settings according to personal preferences.

Due to its strong playback ability and compatibility, VLC is a must-have tool for many desktop and mobile devices users.

Website: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Supported platform: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Ubuntu, Android, iOS and more.

2. Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC)

This is a Windows free media player with light-weight design, simple UI, and customizable playback options. In fact, MPC-HC is a popular fork of Media Player Classic. While keeping the original functionality, it further comes with more new features. Although MPC-HC goes with a concise appearance, it is full-featured and can play all old and advanced media files, thus, there is no exception for anime playback.

Website: https://mpc-hc.org/

Supported platform: Windows XP and newer

3. MPV Media Player

MPV is a command-line application with support for a great large number of media file formats, video/audio codecs, and subtitle files. This media player also supports many advanced playback options through a customizable video output driver based on OpenGL, Vulkan, and D3D11, to let people control playback quality, use advanced upscaling filters, color management, frame timing, interpolation, HDR, etc. Since MPV supports scripting to extend its functionality, you can not only play media files, but also do more things with MPV. Besides, this application can be integrated into other programs rather than working as a standalone media player through libmpv client.h. No matter you are looking forward to just stable playback performance or more advanced and adaptable options to fulfill more tasks, you can give it a shot.

Website: https://mpv.io/

Supported Platform: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Source code.

4. KMPlayer

KMplayer is a cross-platform media player. Its Windows 64X version has support for virtually all video formats and can handle high-quality video like 4K, 8K, UHD, 60FPS for more vivid viewing experiences. Besides, there are many advanced playback settings and extra features on the Windows version, especially, YouTube video downloader.  

KMplayer is also available for Mac users. Though the Mac version isn’t equipped with many features as the Windows 64X version does, it is good enough for stable and high-effciency playback. The portable KMplayer apps for Android and also work a threat,

Website: https://www.kmplayer.com/home

Supported Platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android  

5. PotPlayer

Potplayer is specialized for Windows users to play media files. In addition to native support for various codes, it comes with additional Opencodec, which makes it effortless for users to play video and audio files of any kind. PotPlayer always delivers flawless and sleek playback effects. There are few glitches during the playback according to user’s feedbacks.

Kinds of playback settings and optional tools are included in this media player, from basic playback control settings to video/audio/subtitle control fitters, 3D/360 playback features, frame size adjustments, aspect ratio modification, and so forth.

Website: https://potplayer.daum.net/

Supported Platform: Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, Vista, XP

This list involves 5 of the best video players for anime playback. They are all featured by strong support for practically all video and audio codecs and a series of auxiliary tools. We hope that you will find any of them meet your needs.