rossy / mpc-qt

Media Player Classic Qute Theater

Media Player Classic Qute Theater

A clone of Media Player Classic reimplimented in Qt.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema (mpc-hc) is considered by many to be the quintessential media player for the Windows desktop. Media Player Classic Qute Theater (mpc-qt) aims to reproduce most of the interface and functionality of mpc-hc while using libmpv to play video instead of DirectShow.

Features

• play back simple video files
• control playback using the control buttons
• seek with the seek bar
• navigate by chapters
• select audio/video/subtitle tracks
• change playback rate
• resize the window automatically using zoom factors
• build playlists with the quick open command
• batch play from playlists
• launch files from from the command line
• stream video from streaming sites
• take screenshots with a customizable filename template

Note: This is alpha software and some of the functionality isn't written yet. For the most part, unwritten portions relate to setting options, streaming from devices, and storing favorites.

Improvements over mpc-hc

Multiple playlists: When you're watching shows on your backlog, load every show into seperate playlists and still keep track of the last played file for each playlist. Finally you can eliminate the need to keep track of your progress in a spreadsheet, all while never leaving the comfort of your favorite media player.

Quick queueing: Out-of-order playback in the same style of xmms/qmmp.

More to come: Comprehensive video-output filter support; Encoding support. Suggestions welcome.

Prequisities

You need the Qt5 sdk installed and a recent edition of libmpv. On ubuntu you can usually install the Qt5 sdk with the ubuntu-sdk or qtcreator packages. You will need to compile libmpv from git head or at least version 0.14.0 with the --enable-libmpv-shared option. Make sure ldconfig is run after compiling libmpv, or you may end up with linker errors.

I don't know git, how do I run this?

You'll have to perform a little bit of footwork beforehand. What you're going to do is make a directory for this repo to sit in, and then compile it.

First ensure you have the prequisites as mentioned above, then open a terminal and cd into your general source-code directory. If one does not exist, mkdir one.

mkdir src

cd ~/src

Then, make a directory to checkout this git into, and cd into that.

mkdir mpc-qt

cd mpc-qt

At this stage you can checkout this git repository using the following command:

git checkout https://github.com/cmdrkotori/mpc-qt.git

Finally, cd into the checked-out repository and run qtcreator.

cd mpc-qt

qtcreator mpc-qt.pro

Use qtcreator's suggested build setup and click "Configure Project", then press the big green arrow button in the bottom-left corner. After this, the executable should be in ~/src/mpc-qt/build-mpc-qt....

Now you can create a desktop entry with the provided script, for the purposes of sticking a shortcut to mpc-qt on your desktop. (requires Python 3.)

./generate-localinstall-desktop.py

This will search the filesystem for the needed binaries and create the file Media Player Classic Qute Theater.desktop, a usuable .desktop file, even if you forgot to (or can't) run ldconfig.

Compiling on Windows

While this program is meant for Linux, it is possible to compile it on Windows due to the largely cross-platform Qt toolkit. After cloning this repository, download libmpv from the mpv windows release page, and extract it somewhere.

Place the libaries for your architechture from mpv-dev.7z (e.g. mpv-dev.7z/32) into mpv-dev/lib. Then place the include files from mpv-dev.7z (usually at mpv-dev.zip/include) into mpv-dev/include/mpv.

Compile with the mingw32 edition of Qt Creator.