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Follow other GNOME apps designs by having fullscreen button on the right side of window header bar. The control panel had too many buttons already and we still need to make some space for playlist. This way "fullscreen" button will be on top bar while windowed and "unfullscreen" button will appear on the bottom right only when player entered fullscreen mode.
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.