Movie Monad

A free and simple to use video player built with Haskell.

Screenshots

Linux

Mac

Features

• Local or Remote Video Playback
  • file://
  • http://
  • https://
• Window Size Quick Select
• Responsive Window Resizing
• Fullscreen Mode
• Seek
• Play and Pause
• Volume
• Subtitles
  • Disable
  • List and Pick from the Available Languages
• Command-line Play
  • movie-monad ./path/to/video/file.mp4
  • movie-monad http://www.domain.tld/path/to/video/file.mp4

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Mute/Unmute
  • m
  • AudioMute
• Fullscreen/Windowed
  • f
• Show Controls
  • c
• Volume Up
  • ArrowUp
  • AudioRaiseVolume
• Volume Down
  • ArrowDown
  • AudioLowerVolume
• Seek Left
  • ArrowLeft
• Seek Right
  • ArrowRight
• Play/Pause
  • Space
  • AudioPlay

Tested On

Linux

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Linux Mint 18.2
• Deepin 15.4.1
• Manjaro 17.04
• Antergos 17.10
• Fedora 27
• Solus 3

Mac

• macOS Sierra 10.12.6

Dependencies

Run

• GTK+ >= 3.10
• GStreamer >= 1.0
  • GStreamer Good Plug-ins
  • GStreamer Bad Plug-ins >= 1.8

Build

• Haskell
  • GHC == 8.0.2

Install & Run

Linux

AppImage

Download & Run

# Install GTK+ >= 3.10 (https://www.gtk.org/download/index.php)
# Install GStreamer >= 1.0 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/)
# Install GStreamer Good Plug-ins (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-good.html)
# Install GStreamer Bad Plug-ins >= 1.8 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-bad.html)
# Install Wget (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)
# Visit https://github.com/lettier/movie-monad/releases
# Download the latest AppImage movie-monad-0.0.4.0-x86_64.AppImage
wget https://github.com/lettier/movie-monad/releases/download/0.0.4.0/movie-monad-0.0.4.0-x86_64.AppImage
chmod a+x movie-monad-0.0.4.0-x86_64.AppImage
./movie-monad-0.0.4.0-x86_64.AppImage

Install

# Install GTK+ >= 3.10 (https://www.gtk.org/download/index.php)
# Install GStreamer >= 1.0 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/)
# Install GStreamer Good Plug-ins (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-good.html)
# Install GStreamer Bad Plug-ins >= 1.8 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-bad.html)
# Install Wget (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)
wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lettier/movie-monad/master/scripts/sh/install-app-image.sh" -O "movie-monad-install-app-image.sh"
chmod +x "movie-monad-install-app-image.sh"
./movie-monad-install-app-image.sh

Snap

# Install snapd (https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install)
snap install movie-monad
sudo snap connect movie-monad:mount-observe
sudo snap connect movie-monad:removable-media
sudo snap connect movie-monad:raw-usb
movie-monad

Known Issues

• Ubuntu 17
  • Does not launch if using Wayland
    • At login, click the gear and select Ubuntu on Xorg
    • Note that Movie Monad works with Wayland when not using the snap
• File Explorer
  • Some of the left sidebar shortcuts do not map to the expected user directories
    • They instead map to the snap's read-only filesystem or to nothing at all
• Subtitles
  • Subtitles do not show even though you can select them in the drop down
    • GStreamer must not have access to or cannot find any suitable fonts

All of these issues can be avoided if you run the executable directly.

/snap/movie-monad/current/user/bin/movie-monad

Arch/Manjaro/Antergos

cd
# Install Git (https://git-scm.com/downloads)
sudo pacman -S git
# Install Movie Monad from the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/movie-monad/)
mkdir -p movie-monad-tmp
cd movie-monad-tmp
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/movie-monad.git
cd movie-monad
makepkg -sic
cd
rm -rf movie-monad-tmp
movie-monad

Mac

# Install Homebrew (https://brew.sh/#install)
cd ~/Downloads
brew update && brew upgrade
brew install git
git clone https://github.com/lettier/movie-monad.git
cd movie-monad
brew cask install haskell-platform
brew install pkg-config libffi libav libsvg librsvg libogg libvorbis openh264 theora \
  gobject-introspection cairo gdk-pixbuf gsettings-desktop-schemas gtk+3 gtk-mac-integration \
  gstreamer gst-libav gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good
brew install --with-gtk+3 gst-plugins-bad
stack setup
stack install hsc2hs
stack install
export PATH=$PATH:"$HOME/.local/bin/"
movie-monad

Hackage

# Install GObject Introspection (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospection)
# Install GTK+ >= 3.10 (https://www.gtk.org/download/index.php)
# Install GStreamer >= 1.0 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/)
# Install GStreamer Good Plug-ins (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-good.html)
# Install GStreamer Bad Plug-ins >= 1.8 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-bad.html)
# Install Cabal, GHC == 8.0.2 (https://www.haskell.org/platform/prior.html)
# Install Cabal Install (https://www.haskell.org/platform/prior.html)
cabal install movie-monad
movie-monad

GitHub

# Install GObject Introspection (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospection)
# Install GTK+ >= 3.10 (https://www.gtk.org/download/index.php)
# Install GStreamer >= 1.0 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/)
# Install GStreamer Good Plug-ins (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-good.html)
# Install GStreamer Bad Plug-ins >= 1.8 (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-bad.html)
# Install Git (https://git-scm.com/downloads)
# Install GNU Make (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)
# Install Haskell, GHC == 8.0.2 (https://www.haskell.org/platform/prior.html)
# Install Haksell Stack (https://www.haskell.org/platform/)
git clone https://github.com/lettier/movie-monad.git
cd movie-monad/
make
make install
make run

Developer Documentation

Let's make a GTK Video Player with Haskell

License

See LICENSE.

Copyright

(C) 2017 David Lettier
lettier.com