VLYC² aims to be a performant locally-installed client to cloud-media services.

• Stream videos from various sites
• Supports quality selection
• Built-in browser
• Interface resembling VLC
• Performant playback using LibVLC
• It manages to play 720p youtube videos on a 10 year old Celeron M @1x1.7G Laptop!
• Extensible plugin system
• Write plugins in Python

• Subtitle suppot
• Playlist support
• MPEG-DASH support (Used by YouTube, among others)
• Chromium interop (Delegate links to vlyc2 from chromium)

• Qt 5 (http://qt-project.org, distro packages)
• libvlc (http://videolan.org, distro packages)
• QtVlc (http://github.com/Orochimarufan/QtVlc)

• libpython 3.3+ (http://python.org, distro packages)
• PythonQt (http://github.com/Orochimarufan/PythonQt)
• youtube-dl (http://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl)

• CMake (http://cmake.org, distro packages)
• Ninja (http://martine.github.io/ninja/, distro packages)

First, get the dependencies:

• (lib)vlc
• Qt5
• python3

Then, start by installing QtVlc:

git clone https://github.com/Orochimarufan/QtVlc.git
cd QtVlc
git submodule update --init
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G Ninja
ninja
sudo ninja install

Next, PythonQt

git clone https://github.com/Orochimarufan/PythonQt.git
cd PythonQt
mkdir bbuild #build already exists
cd bbuild
cmake .. -G Ninja -DPythonQt_Qt5=ON -DPythonQt_Python3=ON
ninja
sudo ninja install

Finally, VLYC² itself

git clone https://github.com/Orochimarufan/vlyc2.git
cd vlyc2
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G Ninja
ninja
# Enable python plugins
ln -s ../../plugins/python/plugins/{youtube_dl,sbs}.py plugins/

Now, you can run VLYC² from the build directory: ./vlyc2

VLYC² is (C) 2013-2014 by Taeyeon Mori.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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