Light Video

A minimalistic GTK4 and gstreamer based video player for Linux based mobile phones aiming for minimal battery usage.

It works perfectly well on desktops too.

It supports:

• Inhibiting suspend/idle when playing video

• Stopping video playback on (i.e. power button toggled) blank

• Suspending video (but not audio) when window is not visible to save 🔋

• Registering as default video player in GNOME control center

• An indicator whether hardware acceleration is in use

• Setting playback speed

• Play from popular video sites via yt-dlp