com.github.rafostar.Clapper CC0-1.0 GPL-3.0-or-later Clapper Simple and modern GNOME media player com.github.rafostar.Clapper com.github.rafostar.Clapper.desktop

Clapper is a GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit. The media player is using GStreamer as a media backend and renders everything via OpenGL. Player works natively on both Xorg and Wayland. It also supports hardware acceleration through VA-API on AMD/Intel GPUs, NVDEC on Nvidia and V4L2 on mobile devices.

The media player has an adaptive GUI. When viewing videos in "Windowed Mode", Clapper will use mostly unmodified GTK widgets to match your OS look nicely. When player enters "Fullscreen Mode" all GUI elements will become darker, bigger and semi-transparent for your viewing comfort. It also has a "Floating Mode" which displays only video on top of all other windows for a PiP-like viewing experience. Mobile friendly transitions are also supported.

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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

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