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Create volume button with popover instead of using GTK provided volume button. Creating new button with only needed elements is more efficient then removing unneeded items from pre-made volume button. This should also increase performance a little when changing volume, because now we generate new icon only when a change is needed. In pre-made button icon is regenerated on each volume change.
Clapper
A GNOME media player built using GJS and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering. Can also be used as a pre-made widget for GTK apps.
WORK IN PROGRESS
This is still early WIP. Many features are not implemented yet and quite a few are still unstable. Right now Clapper can only play single file. So if you want to test it, start it from terminal like this:
com.github.rafostar.Clapper "video.mp4"
Requirements
Clapper uses GStreamer bindings from GI repository, so if your repo ships them as separate package, they must be installed first.
Additionally Clapper requires these GStreamer elements:
Other required plugins (codecs) depend on video format.
Installation
Run in terminal:
meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local
sudo meson install -C builddir
Hardware acceleration
Using hardware acceleration is highly recommended. As stated in GStreamer wiki:
In the case of OpenGL based elements, the buffers have the GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta meta, which
efficiently copies the content of the VA-API surface into a GL texture.
Clapper uses OpenGL based sinks, so when VA-API is available, both CPU and RAM usage is much lower.
To use VA-API make sure you have gstreamer1-vaapi installed. Verify with:
gst-inspect-1.0 vaapi
On some older GPUs you might need to export GST_VAAPI_ALL_DRIVERS=1 environment variable.
Other acceleration methods (supported by GStreamer) should also work, but I have not tested them due to lack of hardware.