VideoPlayer/README.md

KittehPlayer

A YouTube-like video player based on Qt, QML and libmpv.

How to install

Windows

• Coming Soon™️

Distro Packages

• Arch Linux: kittehplayer in the AUR

Linux AppImage

• You can find the latest appimage of KittehPlayer automatically built by travis at: https://github.com/NamedKitten/KittehPlayer/releases
• To easily install it so it can be easily updated run as your current user:

sudo wget https://github.com/NamedKitten/KittehPlayer/releases/download/continuous/KittehPlayer-x86_64.AppImage -O /usr/bin/KittehPlayer && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/KittehPlayer && sudo chown $USER /usr/bin/KittehPlayer

• To update the AppImage run KittehPlayer --update periodically which will update it using as little bandwidth as needed.

From source

Dependencies

Arch Linux

pacman -S git cmake qt5-svg qt5-declarative qt5-quickcontrols qt5-quickcontrols2 mpv

Ubuntu Xenial

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt-5.11.1-xenial -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential git nasm qt511-meta-minimal qt511quickcontrols qt511quickcontrols2 qt511imageformats qt511svg libgl1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep mpv libmpv* ffmpeg

Instructions

• git clone https://github.com/NamedKitten/KittehPlayer KittehPlayer
• cd KittehPlayer
• If you are running Ubuntu you will need to run sudo ./scripts/build-mpv.sh because ubuntu's MPV version is way too old.
• mkdir build && cd build
• cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
• make
• sudo make install
• The finished player will then be installed and you can launch it using KittehPlayer

Configuration

Config Location

• On linux the config file will be located at ~/.config/KittehPlayer/KittehPlayer.conf

Supported Languages

• english
• french
• spanish
• german
• italian
• russian
• norweigan
• If your language isn't listed above then please either contact me (details at bottom of readme) or make a PR with the translations which are located in the file src/qml/translations.js.

MPV Config

• Since KittehPlayer's default backend is based on libmpv, you can use the mpv.conf from ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf.

SmoothVideo Project Support

• KittehPlayer works with SVP, you just need to follow the same guides as for MPV.