More posts about “Media Players”

GNOME Replace Totem Video Player with Showtime

Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have officially cast a new video player in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream merge, GNOME has formally replaced the aged GTK3 Totem video […]

9 May 2025

Clapper Media Player Adds New Features, Official Windows Build

A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements Not newly new, I should say. I hadn’t run a flatpak update in Ubuntu I an age so I only […]

12 February 2025

Linux Media Player Celluloid Adds Slick New UI Option

A new version of Celluloid, an open-source media player for Linux, has been released. Celluloid (originally called GNOME MPV, albeit many moons ago) is an MPV-based media player able to leverage many of MPV’s ‘powerful […]

24 June 2024

Meet Showtime, The New GNOME Video Player

We enjoy a cinematic lineup of epic Linux video players, with the likes of VLC and MPlayer serving as big-name, A-list draws — but ready that popcorn because a potential new star is on the […]

11 June 2024

Clapper Video Player for Linux Gets First Update in 2 Years

A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced […]

24 April 2024

VLC 3.0.19’s Best New Features are Windows-Only

A new version of VLC, the hugely popular open-source media player, is out. VLC 3.0.19 introduces a number of noteworthy new features and enhancements, plus a bunch of bug fixes to correct errant behaviour, resolve […]

15 October 2023
haruna video player

‘Haruna’ is a Neat Qt-Based Video Player with YouTube Support

Haruna is a modern Q-based video player for Linux desktops. In this post I preview its core features (lots) and the ones that make it a little bit special.

22 December 2022
clapper video player on ubuntu 22.04

Clapper GTK Video App Bags Performance Boost in Latest Update

We look at the latest improvements to Clapper, a slick GTK4/libadwaita media player designed for GNOME desktops and has experimental Pipewire support.

24 June 2022

Why Clapper is Now My Go-To Video Player for Linux

Clapper is an interesting new media player app for GNOME desktops built in GJS and GTK 4. In this post we look at Clapper's features and drool over its UI.

17 July 2021
the kodi media center

Kodi 18 Released with Major New Features: Here’s How to Install it on Ubuntu

We show you how to install Kodi on Ubuntu and Linux Mint. The latest update to Kodi media center features major improvements and brings new features.

30 January 2019
gnome mpv screenshot

‘Celluloid’ is the new name of GNOME MPV

GNOME MPV, a slick GTK UI to my favourite Linux video player tool, has been given a brand new name. The versatile open-source video app is switching away from the ‘GNOME MPV’ moniker to ‘Celluloid’. Why? […]

13 January 2019
parole xfce media player

Xfce’s Parole Media Player Gets First Update In Over a Year

Xfce's Parole media player has just seen its first major update in over a year.

12 February 2017