Light Video
by Guido Günther
A modern and simple GTK based video player (not only) for mobile phones
Dangerous permissions
Verified creator
GPL-3.0-or-later
v0.5.0
About
A minimalistic GTK4 and gstreamer based video player for Linux based mobile phones aiming for minimal battery usage. It works perfectly well on desktops too.
It supports:
- Inhibiting suspend/idle when playing video
- Stopping video playback on (i.e. power button toggled) blank
- Suspending video (but not audio) when window is not visible to save 🔋
- Registering as default video player in GNOME control center
- An indicator whether hardware acceleration is in use
- Setting playback speed
- Play from popular video sites via yt-dlp
Permissions
2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download:ro - access to your videos folder
--filesystem=xdg-videos:ro
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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