{"id":48904,"date":"2025-05-14T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48904"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:49:27","slug":"gnome-49-finally-to-use-showtime-as-default-video-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/gnome-49-finally-to-use-showtime-as-default-video-player\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME 49 Finally to Use Showtime as Default Video Player"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Due to GTK4 port, GNOME introduced some new core apps to replace the old ones. They include Loupe Image Viewer, Gnome Console, Gnome Camera, Decibels Audio Player, Gnome Text Editor.<\/p>\n

Now, the developer team is going to replace the default video editor Totem with Showtime in the next 49 desktop release.<\/p>\n

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Showtime<\/a> is a video player started in development more than a year ago. It features GStreamer plugins as backend for video and audio playback, GPU hardware acceleration support, and extensions through FFmpeg. And, it uses GTK4 + LibAdwaita toolkit for its modern user interface.<\/p>\n

The video player was submitted into GNOME Incubator<\/a>, the place holds projects that are considered for GNOME Core and GNOME Development tools. Now, it’s finally accepted as default according to this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Video Player (codenamed Showtime) is replacing Videos (Totem) as GNOME\u2019s default video player.<\/i><\/p>\n

It will be included in GNOME 49, but it can already be installed from Flathub.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If everything goes well, it will be the default video player for next GNOME Desktop 49, which is planned to be released on September 17, as default desktop for next Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. Though, as you know Ubuntu MAY or MAY NOT take use new Gnome core apps as default.<\/p>\n

How to Install Showtime Video Player in current Ubuntu releases<\/h3>\n

Showtime has been made into Ubuntu universe repository as optional player since 25.04. User may either search & install it in App Center (filter by Debian package), or press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/code> to terminal and run command to install:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install showtime<\/pre>\n
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NOTE: Like Totem, Showtime package in Ubuntu lacks some codecs due to legal reason! If you got “Missing Plugin” issue when trying to play a video, run command below to manually install the codecs:<\/b><\/p>\n
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras<\/pre>\n
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For current Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 24.10, and most other Linux, the player is available to install as Flatpak package<\/a> that runs in sandbox environment.<\/p>\n