Kylin Video is a front-end for mpv and MPlayer.
This GUI is written using Qt5.
Kylin Video is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses mpv and MPlayer as the software’s background engine. mpv is used by default.
- Supports most audio and video formats.
- Full screen mode.
- Subtitles with autoloading subtitle files.
- Options to enable postprocessing by default, use software video equalizer, direct rendering, double buffering, and drawing video using slices.
- Audio/video auto synchronization.
- Caching.
- Screenshots.
- Output drivers: GPU, VDPAU, XV, VAAPI, and x11.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
- Supports x86 and ARM architectures.
Website: github.com/UbuntuKylin/kylin-video
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Developer: li xiang
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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