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gridplayer 0.5.3

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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 and audio format (VLC)
Support for (almost) any streaming URLs (streamlink + yt-dlp)
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.
Huge thanks to every contributor!
Installation
Windows

Via scoop:
$ scoop install gridplayer

Compatible with Windows 7, 8, 10, 11.
Linux

For better system integration install via Flathub.
Note on AppImage
The AppImage was built using Ubuntu Focal Fossa libraries, so compatibility is Ubuntu 20+.
You may need to set execute permissions on AppImage file in order to run it:
$ chmod +x GridPlayer-0.5.3-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

If you get "GridPlayer is damaged and can't be opened" error, run this command in the Terminal app:
$ sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/GridPlayer.app

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.
Video Decoder settings
GridPlayer supports two video output modes:

Hardware (default) mode uses available GPU to render video. This mode offers high performance and is a recommended mode.
Software mode is entirely independent of GPU and only uses the CPU to render video. This mode may cause a high CPU load with high-resolution videos.

Due to libvlc software library limitations, video decoding is split into parallel processes. You can control how many videos are handled by a single decoder process using the "Videos per process" setting. Setting this option too high may cause a high CPU load and application freeze. The optimal value is 4 videos per process.
There is also "Hardware SP" mode. It handles video decoding within the same process in which GridPlayer runs. It is not recommended to use with many videos (>4-6) because it may cause high CPU load and application freeze.
Due to OS inter-process restrictions, "Hardware SP" is the only available hardware mode in macOS.
Known issues
Linux (Snap): Error 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: black screen issue when using hardware decoder
Switch on "Opaque overlay (fix black screen)" checkbox in settings.
Depending on the window manager, the overlay might be a bit glitchy with the hardware decoder. Enabling compositor might help.
Geting help
If you found a bug or have a feature request, please open a new issue.
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

streamlink by Christopher Rosell, Streamlink Team

Licensed under BSD-2-Clause License

yt-dlp by Contributors

Licensed under Unlicense 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

Flag Icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis

Licensed under MIT License

Translations
Arabic

azoaz6001

German

DominikPott

Spanish

Sergio Varela
asolis2020

French

Sylvain LOUIS

Hungarian

samu112

Italian

Davide V.
SolarCTP

Japanese

七篠孝志

Korean

VenusGirl

Dutch

Heimen Stoffels

Polish

rafal132
Sebastian Jasiński

Portuguese, Brazilian

GBS ~ TECH

Chinese Simplified

Yagang Wang
1017346
焦新营
loser7788
李凡

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.