Dacx: Cross-Platform Music and Video Player

Fast, lightweight, open source media player for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Built with Flutter + media_kit (libmpv).

Dacx is a desktop music and video player focused on speed and low overhead, with modern playback controls, media session integration, and broad format support.

⬇️ Download Dacx

Windows	MacOS	Linux
EXE: x64	DMG: Universal	DEB: x64
MSI: x64	ZIP: Universal	RPM: x64
Portable ZIP: x64		TAR.GZ: x64

Platforms

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Features

• Audio + video playback for MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AAC, Opus, MP4, MKV, AVI, WebM, and more (anything libmpv handles).
• 10-band equalizer with presets.
• Multi-audio-track mixing via lavfi-complex (experimental and currently unstable).
• Resume playback from where you left off.
• Compact mode and always-on-top window.
• System media-session integration: lock-screen / Now Playing / SMTC controls, artwork, and scrubbing.
• File associations + custom document icon on Windows and Linux.
• Built-in update checker against GitHub releases.
• Notarized & Signed DMG and ZIP for macOS; signed installers via GPG for Windows and Linux.

Development

Note

This project uses Flutter/Dart but also NodeJS. Its a little bit messy and not the best of practices I know, im just the most familiar and confident with js scripting and node so thats how the project is controlled. Sorry :P

# Install Node.js dependencies (build scripts)
npm install

# Install Flutter dependencies
flutter pub get

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Run tests
npm run test:all

# Build for current platform
npm run build:win   # Windows
npm run build:mac   # macOS
npm run build:linux # Linux

License

GPLv3