Media Player

RSS Guard offers some abilities everyone would expect from typical podcast client. It offers built-in media player on some platforms:

• All[1] non-lite builds offer libmpv-based media player which supports almost all features offered by libmpv, including keyboar d/mouse navigation, on-screen controller and custom configuration files loading. At this point. Also, yt-dlp is deployed on some[2] platforms which allows comfortable Youtube videos playback.

• All lite include more basic media player based on QtMultimedia backend. This backend is usually itself based on ffmpeg so it can play fairly wide range of media formats.

Usage

This feature is available for each hyperlink URL. You can either right-click any link in embedded article/web browser or you can use Articles -> Play in media player menu item.

Configuration

See Settings -> Media player configuration section in RSS Guard. User data placeholder is supported.

libmpv Backend

Note that this backend does support full mpv configuration mechanism. You can set path to custom configuration folder in settings (see above). If you select empty folder, then RSS Guard automatically copies sample configuration files into it.

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[1]

At this point, precompiled binaries for Mac OS X do not have this backend enabled and rely on QtMultimedia backend instead.

[2]

yt-dlp is contained in binaries for Windows. For other operating systems, I recommend to install yt-dlp or youtube-dl system-wide and add it to your PATH environment variable. Also, custom path to the tool can be tweaked in mpv.conf.