HordePlayer is a fast, local-first video player for Linux that plays what browsers cannot — MKV, HEVC and AC3/E-AC3 audio — by converting media on the fly with ffmpeg through a tiny HTTP server that lives entirely on your machine.
## Highlights
.m3u8), DASH (.mpd)## Install
sudo snap install hordeplayer
AppImage, .deb and .rpm builds are also available from the
[GitHub releases](https://github.com/Hordekiller/HordePlayer/releases).
## Usage
Paste a link or drop a file into the player and press Play. For MKV files or quiet AC3 audio, press Transcode to route the source through ffmpeg. Tune audio, playlists, server address and more in the sidebar tabs.
## License
[GPL-3.0](https://github.com/Hordekiller/HordePlayer/blob/main/LICENSE). HordePlayer invokes ffmpeg strictly as an external process; ffmpeg is distributed under its own (L)GPL license and is not linked into this application.
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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.
On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
If AppArmor is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install HordePlayer, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install hordeplayer
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