com.github.rafostar.Clapper Clapper

Simple and modern media player

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Clapper is a modern media player designed for simplicity and ease of use. Powered by GStreamer and built for the GNOME desktop environment using GTK4 toolkit, it has a clean and stylish interface that lets you focus on enjoying your favorite videos.

Clapper uses a playback queue where you can add multiple media files. Think of it like a playlist that you can build. You can easily reorder items or remove them from the queue with a simple drag and drop operation.

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In this release Clapper code was rewritten from scratch. Now split into two libraries and an application built on top of them, with:

Brand new, simplified and consistent UI
Player now operates on playback queue model
Multiple queue progression modes to choose from (consecutive, repeat item, carousel, shuffle)
New media info window (shows media information and GStreamer elements used to play it)
More dialogs and windows use libadwaita
Multiple new status/info overlays showing what is going and other messages
Added video buffering animation
Clapper will now inform users about missing GStreamer plugins needed for playback
Video chapters now appear throughout the seek bar on hover and while dragging slider
Vastly expanded MPRIS implementation
Integrated media discovery (see titles of queued items instead of URIs)
Expanded WebSocket server functionality (for remote playback control)
Increased maximum volume amplification level to 200%
Added some new keyboard shortcuts
In addition to volume, now also speed and queue progression mode are restored on launch
Fixed keyboard shortcuts not being reversed (e.g. seek) in RTL languages
Toggle play moved to left mouse button, right one now opens context menu (which was previously hard to access)
Many bug fixes and QoL improvements

Fixes:

Fix time labels display on RTL languages
Improved GL/GLES context automatic selection

New translations:

Hebrew

A quick hotfix release. Fixes problems with new video sink on displays with non-100% scaling applied. See 0.5.0 version release notes for full recent changelog.

Changes:

Includes and uses new, improved GStreamer video sink
All networking ported to libsoup3
A lot of cleanup, including removal of unfinished web application and old YT code
App now supports D-Bus launching (DBusActivatable)
Other small fixes

New translations:

Arabic
Basque
French
Japanese
Swedish
Turkish

Fixes:

Compatibility with more recent libadwaita versions
Toggle mute with M button alone
Allow handling YouTube with external GStreamer plugins
Fix catching errors when reading clipboard
Fix missing translator-credits
Fix missing gio-unix-2.0 dep
Fix playback pausing when entering fullscreen with touchscreen
Fix GST_PLUGIN_FEATURE_RANK env usage
Fix video/audio decoder change detection
Merge global video tags instead replacing them
Few other misc bug fixes

New translations:

Chinese Simplified
Czech
Hungarian
Portuguese
Portuguese, Brazilian
Russian
Spanish

Changes:

Now uses libadwaita
New and adaptive preferences window
Improved open URI dialog
Few small tweaks to fullscreen UI design
Show current video and audio decoders in popovers (easy way to check if HW accel is used)
Enabled NVDEC hardware acceleration by default (requires Nvidia proprietary drivers)
Added option to use PipeWire for audio output (experimental)
Added option to use playbin3 element (experimental)
New PiP icon from icon development kit
Improved performance on devices running OpenGL ES
Translations support
Various bug fixes

New keyboard shortcuts:

Leave fullscreen with Escape key
Toggle mute with Ctrl+M

More touchscreen gestures:

Toggle playback with a long press
Switch playlist items via double tap on screen side

New translations:

Catalan
Dutch
German
Italian
Polish

Changes:

Added MPRIS support
Added repeat modes: single video, whole playlist and shuffle
Support opening folders with media files
Append playlist items by holding Ctrl while doing Drag and Drop
Improved handling of keyboard shortcuts
Added more keyboard shortcuts
Added window that shows available keyboard shortcuts
Show black screen by default after playback (make showing last frame optional instead)
Added ability to export playlist to file
Improve handling of changing displays with different resolutions
Added support for EGL under x11 with GTK 4.3.1 or later
Added missing symbolic app icon
Some misc bug fixes and code cleanups

Player:

Fix missing top left menu buttons on some system configurations
Fix potential video sink deadlock
Do not show mobile controls transition on launch
Show tooltip with full playlist item text on hover

YouTube:

Auto select best matching resolution for used monitor
Added some YouTube related preferences
Added support for live HLS videos
Added support for non-adaptive live HLS streaming

New features:

YouTube support - drag and drop videos from youtube or use open URI dialog to play them
Added convenient ways of opening external subtitles

Changes:

Few GUI layout improvements
Simplified video sink code
Fixed missing Ctrl+O common keybinding
Fixed error when playback finishes during controls reveal animation
Fixed startup window size on Xorg
Fixed top time not showing up on fullscreen startup
Fixed missing file extensions in online URIs
Fixed some error messages not being displayed

First stable release

GitHub version

#9141ac #241f31 keyboard pointing touch 360