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.
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 HordePlayer, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install hordeplayer
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