Free and open source. Designed to stay completely out of your way so you can enjoy
your movies, shows, and videos with zero clutter and no distractions.
Every detail of Nixo is crafted for audio and video enthusiasts who demand zero lag, instant startup, and millisecond precision.
Compact, borderless mini-player with free screen dragging, responsive aspect ratio lock, and double-click instant restore.
Smooth animated drawer capable of rendering 10,000+ media files with zero frame drops, natural alphanumeric sorting, and edge scrolling.
Fine-tune Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Gamma with zero presentation latency directly in the GPU 32-bit RGBA pipeline.
Direct GPU video decoder interfacing with D3D11VA on Windows, NVDEC on NVIDIA, VAAPI on Linux, and VideoToolbox on macOS.
Drop external subtitle files directly onto the window with support for styled ASS/SSA, SRT, VTT, custom fonts, and timing delay calibration.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
No Electron, no Chromium, and no virtual DOM. Direct GPU rendering via wgpu and egui gives instant startup and surgical memory efficiency.
Backed by the industry-leading libmpv engine, Nixo plays virtually any media file with no external codec packs or third-party bloat required.
Ultra HD 4K, 8K & HDR
Full support for high-bitrate containers with multi-track audio, chapters, and hardware-accelerated decoding pipelines.
Hi-Res Lossless & Compressed
Pristine audiophile playback with bit-perfect stereo and spatial multi-channel audio stream decoding.
Embedded & External Files
Drop external subtitle tracks directly onto the player window with real-time delay synchronization and styled rendering.
Seamless Drag & Drop Media Folders
Drop entire folders or multi-file selections directly onto Nixo to queue playlists with instant alphanumeric sorting.