Tag: media player

Xfce’s Parole media player announced the 4.18.0 released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10 and their based systems. Parole is a modern simple video player based on the GStreamer. It’s an free opensource app fit well in the lightweight XFCE desktop, though also works in other… Continue reading Parole Media Player 4.18 Released! How to Install via PPA

In Ubuntu 22.04, you’ll find that the MPV media player does NOT have window border and title-bar out-of-the-box. That’s quite annoying! You can no longer drag resizing the app window. And, title bar buttons (minimize, maximize, and close) only appear when you hover over the window during video playback. Why: It’s NOT feature but a… Continue reading [Workaround] MPV has No title-bar & window border in Ubuntu 22.04

The popular Kodi media center has the first update in 2022 by releasing v19.4. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu. The release fixed many issues in the Kodi 19 “Matrix”, including Chinese keyboard character display issue, seekbar wouldn’t disappear when pause via a remote app, EDL mute now working, flickering with interlaced H.264 SD… Continue reading Kodi 19.4 Released with Various Fixes! Install it via Ubuntu PPA

This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest version of Kodi media center in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, and their based systems, e.g., Linux Mint 20, Elementary OS 6 and Zorin OS 16. Kodi, formerly XBMC, is now at version 19.2 “Matrix”. It fixed some possible crashes caused by missing timer type,… Continue reading How to Install The Latest Kodi 19.2 via PPA in Ubuntu 21.04, 20.04