Baka MPlayer is a free and open source, cross-platform, libmpv based multimedia player. Its simple design reflects the idea for an uncluttered, simple, and enjoyable environment for watching tv shows.

• gcc
• pkg-config
• libmpv-dev
• qtbase5-dev (>= 5.2.0)
  • qt5-qmake
  • qttools5-dev-tools
  • qtdeclarative5-dev
  • libqt5svg5-dev
  • libqt5x11extras5-dev
  • libqt5network5
• youtube-dl (optional, for streaming youtube videos)

Note: Packages may be named slightly different for each distro

Baka MPlayer was designed around the font called Noto Sans. Noto Sans was used because of its open source nature and its broad support for Unicode characters. Having the correct font installed insures that what you see is what was intended.

Get it here.

These instructions are for cross-compiling for Windows on a Linux system. (Note: the architecture can be either x86_64 or i686 depending on which platform you're compiling for)

git clone -b release https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer.git
cd "Baka-MPlayer"
mkdir build
cp -r windows/cross-compilation/* build/
cd build
arch=x86_64
./baka-build.sh $arch

This is a very long process because you'll need to build the mingw32 toolchain mxe and all dependent libraries, libmpv.a, and finally baka-mplayer.exe. If everything succeeded without error, you'll get Baka-MPlayer.$arch.zip which should contain everything you need.

To rebuild simply delete the directory (in build) or the .zip file of what you need to rebuild and re-run ./baka-build.sh $arch

To add custom patches, put them in src/patches/ prefixed with the name of what you're patching.

If your distribution does not provide a package, you can compile it from source.

We've made scripts for some of the distributions... See etc/sbin/linux/

git clone -b release https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer.git
cd "Baka-MPlayer"
mkdir build
cp -r linux/* build/
cd build
distro=debian_based
./$distro.sh

If this doesn't work or you do not have a distro listed here, you're on your own. You'll need to build mpv and then Baka-MPlayer, (the dependencies above are Baka-MPlayer). For help building mpv see https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build. Building and making Baka-MPlayer from source can be done like so:

git clone -b release https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer.git
cd "Baka-MPlayer"
./configure
make -j `grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo`
sudo make install

The configuration file will be created on first run and will be written to ~/.config/bakamplayer.ini.

For the minute, you have to compile from source. You require some more dependencies which you can get from homebrew:

git clone -b release https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer.git
cd "Baka-MPlayer"
brew tap mpv-player/mpv
brew install mpv --with-libmpv
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
./configure
make
open build

Then drag the app to your applications folder. In the future there will be a brew formula

Similarly to on linux, the configuration file will be created on first run and will be written to ~/.config/bakamplayer.ini.

By default, Baka MPlayer will compile in English if no language is specified during compilation. To compile a multi-lingual version of baka-mplayer, configure it like so:

./configure CONFIG+=install_translations

For more configuration options see the configure source file or read the manual.

You can check out which languages we currently support by checking out Baka-MPlayer/src/translations/.

Please use the issues tracker provided by GitHub to send us bug reports or feature requests.

IRC Channel: #baka-mplayer on irc.freenode.net

You can ask us questions about using Baka MPlayer, give feedback, or discuss its development. However, if possible, please avoid posting bugs there and use the issue tracker instead.