better_player_linux

Linux implementation of the better_player plugin.

Usage

This package is a federated plugin implementation. Do not depend on it directly. Use the main better_player package instead:

dependencies:
  better_player: ^1.29.0

Requirements

• Linux: Any standard desktop distribution with GTK 3.0+ and glibc 2.31+.
• libmpv: libmpv.so.2 or libmpv.so.1 installed on the system.

Installing libmpv

On Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmpv-dev libmpv2

On Fedora/RHEL:

sudo dnf install mpv-libs-devel

On Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S mpv

Features

• High-performance playback engine powered by libmpv and FFmpeg.
• Video rendering via Flutter's FlPixelBufferTexture.
• Full HLS adaptive bitrate streaming (.m3u8) and MPEG-DASH (.mpd).
• RTSP live streaming support.
• Subtitle parsing (SRT, WebVTT, TTML) and audio track switching.
• Custom HTTP headers and network buffering configuration.