gridplayer

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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)
• Play a whole list in one cell: m3u, pls and xspf playlists, folders, YouTube playlists, IPTV channels
• Cookie support for streams that need a login
• Skip sponsors and other marked parts of YouTube videos with SponsorBlock
• Hardware & software video decoding
• Control video aspect, playback speed, zoom
• Set loop fragments with frame precision
• 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 is built on manylinux_2_28 (glibc 2.28), so it runs on Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 10+, Fedora 29+, RHEL / AlmaLinux / Rocky 8+ and other distros of the same age or newer.

You may need to set execute permissions on AppImage file in order to run it:

chmod +x GridPlayer-0.5.5-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

DMG image is not signed and targets Apple Silicon (arm64). 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

Install with UV

uv tool install gridplayer

Python 3.10 or later required.

This type of installation will also require VLC installed (Windows & Mac) or a vlc package (Linux) 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

uv tool install git+https://github.com/vzhd1701/gridplayer.git

The same notes about the Python version and external packages from above apply here.

Command line options

gridplayer [options] [FILE|URL ...]

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