| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Video Player Software | 7.6 (#27) | 8.2 (#11) |
| Hardware acceleration | FFplay documents hardware accelerated decoding through -hwaccel, which also enables the Vulkan renderer automatically. | Yes |
| Platforms | The FFmpeg project says it compiles, runs, and passes its testing infrastructure across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, BSDs, and Solaris. | Linux,Windows |
| Playback controls | While playing, users can pause, mute, toggle fullscreen, and quit with keyboard shortcuts. | Features include video previews when hovering over the seek bar, custom mpv commands, chapter skipping by keywords, and actions assigned to mouse buttons. |
| Support | The project accepts bug reports and contributions, and directs normal bugs to its Forgejo repository rather than its security email address. | The KDE Applications page links to a community forum for help and KDE’s bug tracker for bug reports. |