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 offerlibmpv
-based media player which supports almost all features offered bylibmpv
, 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 onQtMultimedia
backend. This backend is usually itself based onffmpeg
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.