Aurora is a modern media player for GNOME built on the power of MPV. Play any video or audio format, stream YouTube and Twitch, load IPTV playlists, and enjoy hardware-accelerated playback — all from a clean, native GTK4 + libadwaita interface.
KEY FEATURES • Plays all common formats: MP4, MKV, AVI, WebM, MP3, FLAC, AAC and more • YouTube & Twitch streaming via yt-dlp (no browser needed) • IPTV support — load any M3U or M3U8 playlist URL • Hardware-accelerated decoding via VA-API (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA) • Chapters display and navigation in the seek bar • Subtitles: SRT, ASS, VTT, PGS — external file support • Playlist queue with drag & drop • MPRIS integration — control with media keys and lock screen • Playback speed control, screenshots, shuffle and repeat modes • Podcast mode with skip-silence support • Floating or fixed control bar
Aurora is designed to feel at home on GNOME while being powerful enough for daily use as your only media player on Linux.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Aurora Media Player, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install aurora-media-player
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft.io now.