GridPlayer
by vzhd1701
Play videos side-by-side
About
Simple VLC-based video player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.
Built using Python, Qt and VLC.
Features:
- Cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
- Support for any video and audio format (VLC)
- Support for (almost) any streaming URLs (streamlink + yt-dlp)
- Hardware and software video decoding
- Control video aspect, playback speed, zoom
- Set loop fragments with frame percision
- Configurable grid layout
- Easy swap videos with drag-n-drop
- Playlist retains settings for each video
Permissions
2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- full access to your entire file system
--filesystem=host - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
--filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro - access to xdg-run/gvfs
--filesystem=xdg-run/gvfs - talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
--talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar - talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
--talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify - talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
--talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings - screensaver inhibit
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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