Third-Party Notices

Third-Party Notices

Last updated: 21 March 2026

MediaBoxMC incorporates or utilizes the following third-party software components and services. We gratefully acknowledge the work of the open-source community and the providers of these tools.

1. Media Playback

MPV Media Player

• License: GPL-2.0-or-later
• Website: https://mpv.io
• Source code: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
• Usage: MPV is used as a separate external process for media playback. MediaBoxMC communicates with MPV via IPC named pipes. MPV is not statically or dynamically linked to the MediaBoxMC application binary. The MPV executable and its dependencies are distributed alongside MediaBoxMC as independent files.
• Copyright: MPV contributors and the MPlayer/mplayer2 projects.

uosc

• License: LGPL-2.1
• Source code: https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc
• Usage: uosc is a Lua script that provides a modern UI overlay for the MPV player. It is loaded by MPV at runtime as a script and is not linked to the MediaBoxMC application.
• Copyright: Tomas Klaen and contributors.

2. Metadata Services

The Movie Database (TMDB)

• License: Proprietary API (subject to TMDB Terms of Use)
• Website: https://www.themoviedb.org/
• Usage: MediaBoxMC uses the TMDB API to retrieve metadata (titles, descriptions, cast, crew, posters, backdrops) for multimedia files in the user's library. Users provide their own TMDB API key.
• Attribution: This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

OpenSubtitles (Planned)

• License: Proprietary API
• Website: https://www.opensubtitles.com/
• Usage: Integration with OpenSubtitles is planned for a future release to provide subtitle search and download capabilities.

3. .NET NuGet Packages

Microsoft.Data.Sqlite 8.0.0

• License: MIT
• Website: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore
• Usage: SQLite database access for local data storage.
• Copyright: .NET Foundation and Contributors.

Dapper 2.1.28

• License: Apache-2.0
• Website: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper
• Usage: Lightweight object-relational mapper for database queries.
• Copyright: Sam Saffron, Marc Gravell, and Nick Craver.

Blake3 1.1.0

• License: MIT / Apache-2.0 (dual-licensed)
• Website: https://github.com/xoofx/Blake3.NET
• Usage: BLAKE3 cryptographic hash computation for file identification and deduplication.
• Copyright: Alexandre Mutel.

TMDbLib 2.0.0

• License: MIT
• Website: https://github.com/LordMike/TMDbLib
• Usage: .NET client library for the TMDB API.
• Copyright: Michael Bisbjerg.

CommunityToolkit.Mvvm 8.2.2

• License: MIT
• Website: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/dotnet
• Usage: MVVM architecture toolkit for WPF application patterns.
• Copyright: .NET Foundation and Contributors.

SharpCompress 0.36.0

• License: MIT
• Website: https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress
• Usage: Archive extraction for MPV updates and bundled assets.
• Copyright: Adam Hathcock.

Serilog and Extensions

• License: Apache-2.0
• Website: https://github.com/serilog/serilog
• Usage: Structured diagnostic logging framework. Extensions include Serilog.Sinks.File and Serilog.Sinks.Console for log output management.
• Copyright: Serilog Contributors.

Microsoft.Extensions.* 8.0.0

• License: MIT
• Website: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime
• Usage: Dependency injection, configuration, hosting, and logging abstractions from the .NET platform.
• Copyright: .NET Foundation and Contributors.

4. Full License Texts

Complete license texts for all open-source components listed above are available in the application installation directory under the "licenses" folder, or can be obtained from the respective source code repositories linked above.