vdoPlayr – Command line launched minimal video player

Release Date : 10/2025

Platforms : Linux (Debian ARM64, AMD64 supported)

Download : v4l2Camera Git Repo

Description : Command line accessible minimal GTK based video playback app

Features : Hardware accelerated (where available) command line launched minimal video player. Designed to allow easy playback of recorded video clips from other utilities. Was designed to work with v4l2Camera class interface (which can record and stream video from USB camera)

vdoPlayr supports the following video container formats and codecs:

Container Formats:

  • AVI (.avi) with MJPEG codec
  • MP4 (.mp4) with H.264 codec
  • MOV (.mov) with H.264 codec – QuickTime format
  • 3GP (.3gp) with H.264 codec – 3GPP multimedia format
  • 3G2 (.3g2) with H.264 codec – 3GPP2 multimedia format
  • M4V (.m4v) with H.264 codec – iTunes video format
  • STDIN – Raw JPEG or H.264 streams

Hardware Decoder Support:

  • H.264: NVIDIA CUDA hardware-accelerated decoding via FFmpeg
  • MJPEG: Hardware-accelerated decoding via libjpeg-turbo