gridplayer 0.2.1

Play videos side-by-side

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About

Simple VLC-based media 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.

Features

• Cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
• Support for any video format (VLC)
• Hardware & 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

Translation

GridPlayer now supports internationalization! Anyone with a handful of free time and desire to support this project is welcome to contribute. No coding skills or special software required, all dialogs are well documented and there are not many strings to translate. Every contributor will be given proper credit.

Installation

Windows

Linux

For better system integration install via Flathub.

Note on AppImage

You may need to set execute permissions on AppImage file in order to run it:

$ chmod +x GridPlayer-0.2.1-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

DMG image is not signed. You will have to add an exception to run this app.

• How to open an app that hasn’t been notarized or is from an unidentified developer
• Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer

PIP

$ pip install -U gridplayer

Python 3.8 or later required.

This type of installation will also require a vlc package present in your system. Please refer to VLC official page for instructions on how to install it.

Some distros (e.g. Ubuntu) might also require libxcb-xinerama0 package.

From source

This project uses poetry for dependency management and packaging. You will have to install it first. See poetry official documentation for instructions.

$ git clone https://github.com/vzhd1701/gridplayer.git
$ cd gridplayer/
$ poetry install --no-dev
$ poetry run gridplayer

The same notes about the Python version and external packages from PIP installation apply here.

Known issues

Linux (Snap): X screen when opening a file from the mounted disk

You need to allow GridPlayer snap to access removable storage devices via Snap Store or by running:

$ sudo snap connect gridplayer:removable-media

Linux (Snap): mounted drives are not visible in file selection dialog

You will also see following error if you run GridPlayer from terminal:

GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Error creating IO channel for /proc/self/mountinfo: Permission denied (g-file-error-quark, 2)

To fix this, you need to allow GridPlayer snap to access system mount information and disk quotas via Snap Store or by running:

$ sudo snap connect gridplayer:mount-observe

Linux (KDE): black screen issue when using hardware decoder

Switch on "Opaque overlay (fix black screen)" checkbox in settings.

Overlay might be a bit glitchy in KDE with hardware decoder.

MacOS: "GridPlayer" is damaged and can't be opened

To fix this, you need to execute the following command using terminal:

$ sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/GridPlayer.app

Geting help

If you have a question about the program or have difficulty using it, you are welcome to the discussions page. You can also mail me directly, I'm always happy to help.

Attributions

This software was build using

• Python by Python Software Foundation
  • Licensed under Python Software Foundation License
• Qt by Qt Project
  • Licensed under GPL 2.0, GPL 3.0, and LGPL 3.0
• VLC by VideoLAN
  • Licensed under GPL 2.0 or later

Python packages

• PyQt by Riverbank Computing
  • Licensed under Riverbank Commercial License and GPL v3
• python-vlc by Olivier Aubert
  • Licensed under GPL 2.0 and LGPL 2.1
• pydantic by Samuel Colvin
  • Licensed under MIT License

Graphics

• Hack Font by Source Foundry
  • Licensed under MIT License
• Basic Icons by Icongeek26
  • Licensed under Flaticon License
• Suru Icons by Sam Hewitt
  • Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
• Clean App Download Buttons by Tony Thomas
  • Licensed under MediaLoot License

License

This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). Full text of the license is available in the LICENSE file and online.