Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time

GridPlayer version

GridPlayer-0.3.0-x86_64.AppImage

What OS are you using?

Linux

OS Version / Linux distribution

Arch

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

AppImage

Bug description

Example grid: two frames on top, one in the bottom. Even if I set the "Aspect mode:none" in Settings or is saved in the playlist, when I open the playlist, the bottom one is always loaded in "Aspect fit" mode.

When loaded the playlist, it is showing "Aspect none":

#GRIDPLAYER
#P:{"grid_state": {"mode": "auto_rows", "is_fit": true, "size": 0}, "window_state": [false, false, "AdnQywADAAAAAAAAAAADEAAAAoUAAASNAAAAAwAAAyMAAAKCAAAEigAAAAAAAAAAB4AAAAADAAADIwAAAoIAAASK"], "snapshots": {}, "seek_sync_mode": "disabled", "shuffle_on_load": false, "disable_click_pause": true, "disable_wheel_seek": true}
#V0:{"id": "95fc8fd0-34ab-4fc4-a094-9573fd3f3e10", "title": "Africam - Tau", "color": "white", "repeat_mode": "single_file", "is_start_random": false, "rate": 1.0, "aspect_mode": "none", "is_muted": true, "scale": 1.0, "volume": 1.0, "stream_quality": "720p [95]"}
#V1:{"id": "2ba07275-9b53-4448-8630-5f17cfd2900b", "title": "Africam - Olifants River", "color": "white", "repeat_mode": "single_file", "is_start_random": false, "rate": 1.0, "aspect_mode": "none", "is_muted": true, "scale": 1.0, "volume": 1.0, "stream_quality": "1080p [96]"}
#V2:{"id": "5b4dae03-7de3-40e7-9248-597f5cd381dd", "title": "Africam - Nkorho", "color": "white", "repeat_mode": "single_file", "is_start_random": false, "rate": 1.0, "aspect_mode": "none", "is_muted": true, "scale": 1.0, "volume": 1.0, "stream_quality": "720p [95]"}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqkslRWaQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJdjWJr64Ps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdeahH9ebp8

But it does not work:

However, when I click the already selected "Aspect none" again, only after that the aspect changes to the "Aspect none".

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GridPlayer version

v0.3.0

What OS are you using?

Windows

OS Version / Linux distribution

windows10

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

No response

Bug description

Hello, i tried to play this vidéo from mail.ru but Girdplayer failed to resolve url, it will be great if threr is fix please 👍

https://my.mail.ru/mail/richard1339/video/_myvideo/1041.html?from=videoplayer

and it will be great if Girdplayer add a button "paste url from clipboard" and option or button to increase network cache to avoid jerks and add this important option to people who have limited 4G data ou weak wifi please , option like the option made by "3DYD Youtube Source" software :

Download media data independently from playback If this option is checked, filter performs media file download independently of playback. So it continues downloading even when playback is paused.

This approach is useful when you have slow or unstable Internet connection (so playback is stuttering), or when you need to seek a lot within a file. However if all these cases are not about you, and usually you do not watch whole video, it may end up with bandwidth overuse since a lot of downloaded data eventually will be not watched.

When this option is unchecked, filter downloads only part of data that is about to be played.

Filter caches downloaded data in temporary directory regardless of the state of this option and never re-downloads the same data again. Caching is well visualized by Activity

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Suggestion

There is annoying task to set all movie time position and zoom level (and may be other things) to a particular state again and again while we analize them. It would be better if we can take a snapshot and than restore it whenever we need.

Suggestion

Hello vzhd1701,

Love this piece of software! I use it to observe the many recordings I have of the electroplating of microelectrodes. It is a great tool to just view or also present.

Some features that would be awesome:

• Speedup all the videos at once (or perhaps even a selection of them)
• Sync all the video timelines
• Render the complete playlist as a single video/gif

2 Questions: Why does GridPlayer keep running in the background even when the program is closed? Why does the installation have "websockets" and "cryptodome" folders?

Hello, "3DYD Youtube Source" which is a set of plugins and has many amazing features like download media data independently from playback, manual quality selection before playback start, HLS live streams support, DASH streams support (video and audio goes from separate streams), support for audio-only playback.....

and it works only for video players which support playback using DirectShow like "potplayer" and "mpc-hc" (or mpc-be) and they worked for me when i tried this software, an exception is VLC, for which is available separate plugin. : I admit, I installed the vlc plugin from "3DYD Youtube Source" but it didn't work with VLC player, I don't know if I did things wrong, so since our beloved GirdPlayer is compatible with VLC player, can GirdPlayer add an option to embed vlc plugin of "3DYD Youtube Source" so GirdPlayer will have even more outstanding options for streaming !

Thanks a lot !

https://ys.3dyd.com/download/

https://ys.3dyd.com/home/

Latest VLC plugin version details :

preliminary support for VLC 3.0. Functionality and installation are the same as in VLC 2.2. Additionally added support for multiple ABI versions within one plugin. That means there will be single DLL plugin file for all VLC versions (per platform) instead of individual plugins for every VLC version.

https://ys.3dyd.com/changelog/vlc/

for developers, may it can help to integrate vlc plugin to GirdPlayer :

https://ys.3dyd.com/developers/

GridPlayer version

v0.3.0

What OS are you using?

Windows

OS Version / Linux distribution

windows 10

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

No response

Bug description

Hello, i tried to play dailymotion video but it fails , Girdplayer says "buffering timeout" :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8bz3a5

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Suggestion

The default mouse click and scroll is useful if we just want to enjoy the show without being distracted by the state of the movie. This behavior is annoying when we want the state of all movies to not change while doing something.

GridPlayer version

0.1.5

What OS are you using?

Windows

OS Version / Linux distribution

win10

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

No response

Bug description

the menu & setting font are to big.

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GridPlayer version

0.1.4

What OS are you using?

Windows

OS Version / Linux distribution

Windows 10 64bit

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

No response

Bug description

Version 0.1.4 doesn't work in Windows 10. It has a fatal error about loading a python module upon startup. Neither the installer version or portable version works.

Error message is: Error loading Python DLL c:.......\GridPlayer\python38.dll. LoadLibrary: The specified module could not be found.

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Suggestion

Due to the delay in opening several videos, there will often be 1+ second difference in the playback. Yes, it's possible to skip +15/-15 secs ahead/back, but I think what the player needs is a "Sync all video playback".

Let's say you got 3 Video Windows

Video 1: 00:00:01 Video 2: 00:00:02 Video 3: 00:00:03

Suggestion either a right click video window, or a button that lets you enter the timestamp to sync to by input: XX:XX:XX or maybe even XX:XX is enough

I would suggest an option to right click Video1 with an option to "Sync players", meaning all videos would sync to timestamp 00:00:01.

If you right clicked Video 2 and chose "Sync Players" all videos would sync timestamp to 00:00:02 Video 3, 00:00:03.

Another Example: Fast forward a video to say 04:00:00 and sync, and all other players would fast forward to 04:00:00 as well.

Possible complication: if a videos duration is less than the sync time stamp though.

Not sure if this is possible, but would appreciate if it could be considered as a feature request.

GridPlayer version

0.2.0

What OS are you using?

Linux

OS Version / Linux distribution

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

Snap Store

Bug description

When playing videos of different length and skipping around or using the bar at the bottom the videos get out of sync. menaing, the playback time is not synchronized form the start, but by the length of each video, so each video is say 42% in, not 42seconds from the start, which with different lengths would be different values.

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GridPlayer version

0.4.3

What OS are you using?

Linux

OS Version / Linux distribution

Ubuntu 22.04.1

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

None

Bug description

I download the source code of your project and try run it by "poetry run gridplayer" command but it crashed. Here is the full error log: 2022-12-14 14:51:31,300 (21039) | UNHANDLED | CRITICAL | Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/main.py", line 29, in main ret = run_app() File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/main/run.py", line 14, in run_app vlc_version, vlc_python_version = init_vlc() File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc.py", line 32, in init_vlc vlc_version = _get_vlc_version() File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc.py", line 85, in _get_vlc_version with importing_embed_vlc(): File "/usr/lib/python3.10/contextlib.py", line 142, in exit next(self.gen) File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc_fixer.py", line 30, in importing_embed_vlc _fix_plugins_path() File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc_fixer.py", line 40, in _fix_plugins_path vlc_lib_root = _get_libvlc_root_path() File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc_fixer.py", line 62, in _get_libvlc_root_path vlc_lib_root = Path(vlc_module.dll._name) # noqa: WPS437 File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 960, in new self = cls._from_parts(args) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 594, in _from_parts drv, root, parts = self._parse_args(args) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 578, in _parse_args a = os.fspath(a) TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

Can you tell me what is the problem here

Log excerpt

2022-12-14 14:51:31,300 (21039) | UNHANDLED | CRITICAL | Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/__main__.py", line 29, in main
    ret = run_app()
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/main/run.py", line 14, in run_app
    vlc_version, vlc_python_version = init_vlc()
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc.py", line 32, in init_vlc
    vlc_version = _get_vlc_version()
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc.py", line 85, in _get_vlc_version
    with importing_embed_vlc():
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/contextlib.py", line 142, in __exit__
    next(self.gen)
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc_fixer.py", line 30, in importing_embed_vlc
    _fix_plugins_path()
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc_fixer.py", line 40, in _fix_plugins_path
    vlc_lib_root = _get_libvlc_root_path()
  File "/home/harry/gridplayer/gridplayer/utils/libvlc_fixer.py", line 62, in _get_libvlc_root_path
    vlc_lib_root = Path(vlc_module.dll._name)  # noqa: WPS437
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 960, in __new__
    self = cls._from_parts(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 594, in _from_parts
    drv, root, parts = self._parse_args(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/pathlib.py", line 578, in _parse_args
    a = os.fspath(a)
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

GridPlayer version

0.4.3

What OS are you using?

Windows

OS Version / Linux distribution

Windows 10

What distribution channel are you using? [LINUX ONLY]

None

Bug description

Video position (gridplayer.widgets.video_block.VideoBlock.video_params.current_position) is not the an actual timecode in the video.

Log excerpt

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Hi, I'd like to know if it is possible to save a playlist using a relative path for the video files. At the momento the videos are saved with a full path. Ex:

C:\WTT\2022\000deg-P30\AXIS-P3245-LV_500.mp4

I'd like save a playlist in order to be opened on different PCs, something like:

..\VIDEO\AXIS-P3245-LV_500.mp4

Is it possible? thanks Lorenzo

Hello, Ffmpeg seems to have some problems to decode hls m3u8 streams, but a tool like HLSDL seems to solve these problems, please it will be great if there is support for specific hls streams to some websites by integrating these m3u8 software , thank you very much !

C program to download VoD HLS (.m3u8) files

https://github.com/selsta/hlsdl

m3u8 : Python m3u8 Parser for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Transmissions :

https://github.com/globocom/m3u8

[.NET] m3u8 downloader Open source command line m3u8/HLS/dash downloader, supports common AES-128-CBC decryption, multi-threading, custom request headers, etc. Supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English. English Supported.

https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-CLI

[.NET7] Cross-Platform stream downloader for DASH/HLS.

https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-RE

and

https://github.com/HeiSir2014/M3U8-Downloader

https://github.com/Spark-NF/hls-downloader

" HLSDL appears working much better than ffmpeg in these cases. Hlsdl is public and the source code available. The stream plays almost immediately and is stable. No errors or buffering. Using ffmpeg for the download step gives a very long intial delay and is not very stable. so I assume that the new crypto+hls RAI flows are badly handled by ffmpeg based players now.

the video is choppy and unable to buffer enough for a fluid vision. Parole has no problem.

FFmpeg is not good for HLS streams, but I watched a lot of various HLS streams without any problems. The main problem is that FFmpeg downloads all streams (many video sizes at once), so you can watch only HLS stream with single video size"

Suggestion

Hi, Love this software thank you so much for making it. Could you please Add "millisecond" in the Jump (to) Timecode settings as it is useful when syncing of different videos to precision otherwise i have to keep using the current option number of times to get it correct, as most times a lag or difference in time is caused due to it. Also is it possible to add subtitle viewing option for videos which have them.