Just a small video player.
Motivation? For some unknown reason(s?) neither vlc nor ffplay work properly on my system these days (video is not smooth), so I wrote a small thing.
Works under X11, using alsa (basic pulseaudio support too), openGL, cairo. It uses ffmpeg to decode audio and video.
Typical use:
ffprobe video.mp4
displays:
[...]
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(progressive), 720x302 [SAR 1:1 DAR 360:151], 24 fps, 24 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
{...]
Then you run:
./vlb -v video.mp4 -w 720 -h 302 -fps 24 -fullscreen -rt sched_fifo
The "-rt sched_fifo" is necessary for me otherwise the video playback is not smooth and then all of this becomes totally useless... Maybe not necessary for you (but then you can go for vlc I guess).
Subtitles are supported too. More or less.
vlb-2024-12-14.tar.gz
The latest release
vlb-git.tar.gz
The .git subdirectory (just a backup for me).
Contact: see this
Created: 2023-01-16
Last update (more or less accurate): 2024-12-14