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xelplayer

Crossplatform GUI for MPlayer by Alexandre Minoshi

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README

XelPlayer Light

A small audio player for Linux, written with MSEide+MSEgui. It is a front-end for MPlayer, and a light version of Alexandre Minoshi's XelPlayer, reduced to the essentials: playing music files and playlists.

Features

  • Play one or several audio files given on the command line.
  • Play a playlist (.pls, .m3u) given on the command line.
  • Open files, a directory or a playlist from the application (button Menu, then Open).
  • Play, pause, stop, previous and next track, position and volume sliders.

Video is not played: MPlayer is started with -vo null -novideo, so a video file is played as sound only.

Screenshot

Screenshot

Requirements

Build

pascal
make MSEGUI=/path/to/mseide-msegui

MSEGUI may also be set in the environment.

The program can also be built from MSEide with xelplayer.prj.

Usage

pascal
./xelplayer song.mp3
./xelplayer 01.mp3 02.mp3 03.mp3
./xelplayer playlist.m3u

The settings (mplayer path and cache, next track, volume) are kept in xelplayer.conf, next to the executable.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key Action
Space or X Play / pause
C Stop
Z Previous track
V Next track
← / → Move back / forward 5 seconds in the current track
M Mute / unmute
Delete Remove the selected tracks from the playlist

Skins

Three skins are available in skins/:

  • azureskin: light, pale blue background, blue accent.
  • graphiteskin: dark, anthracite background, orange accent.
  • sandskin: light, cream background, terracotta accent.

To change the skin, replace loadsandskin in xelplayer.pas by loadazureskin or loadgraphiteskin, then rebuild.

The skins are generated by tools/genskins.py, where their colors are defined. After a change, regenerate them and their *_mfm.pas files:

pascal
python3 tools/genskins.py skins
for f in skins/*skin.mfm; do tools/mfm2pas $f; done

Contents of the repository

Path Contents
xelplayer.pas, main.pas, aboutform.pas, ... The program and its forms (*.mfm and generated *_mfm.pas).
xelide/ alsmplayer.pas, the component that drives MPlayer, and the files needed to build a MSEide with this component in its palette. See xelide/README.md.
ide.sh, open.sh Start this MSEide, and open xelplayer.prj with it.
icons/, icons/dark/ Button icons from the Breeze theme (LGPL), for light and dark skins.
xelplayer_logo.png Window icon, loaded at startup.
skins/ Skins: azureskin, graphiteskin, sandskin. See Skins.
tools/ mfm2pas, converts a form file (*.mfm) to *_mfm.pas without the IDE. genskins.py, generates the skins.
animation/ Standalone example: the logo animation of the former video area. See animation/README.md.
archive/ The original program by Alexandre Minoshi (alminsoft.zip).
test.sh Manual test script.

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