High-performance, hardware-accelerated image and sequence review for VFX and animation. Download a ready-to-run package and start playing EXR, movie, and image sequences.
Open RV is the open-source version of RV, Autodesk’s Sci-Tech award-winning media review and playback software, now under the Academy Software Foundation. CompStart provides pre-compiled packages for Linux, macOS Apple Silicon, and Windows so you can skip the source build. Packages target VFX Platform CY2025 (Qt 6.5.3, Python 3.11). Unpack and run.
Image and sequence viewer built for VFX and animation review
Hardware-accelerated, pipeline-friendly playback
Pre-compiled Linux x86_64, macOS Apple Silicon, and Windows x64 packages
VFX Platform CY2025 — Qt 6.5.3, Python 3.11
Available pre-compiled — no compile farm required
macOS Ventura 13 or later (Apple Silicon), Windows 10 or later, or Rocky Linux 8/9 (x86_64). Unpack the archive and run Open RV from the install tree.
1. Download the package for your OS. 2. Unpack the archive (tar.gz on Linux/macOS, zip on Windows). 3. Launch Open RV from the unpacked install tree. 4. Open an image, EXR sequence, or movie to review.
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Open source · Apache 2.0
Unpack the archive and run Open RV from the install tree. Packages are VFX Platform CY2025 (Qt 6.5.3, Python 3.11).
Open RV is an image and sequence viewer for VFX and animation — the open-source version of RV, Autodesk’s Sci-Tech award-winning review player, now hosted by the Academy Software Foundation.
Yes. Open RV is Apache 2.0. The pre-compiled packages here are free to download.
No. Linux, macOS Apple Silicon, and Windows packages are available pre-compiled. Download, unpack, and run.
Download the archive for your OS, unpack it, and run Open RV from the install tree. No installer wizard.
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