Light Video
A modern and simple GTK based video player (not only) for mobile phones
Guido Günther ✓ Verified
org.sigxcpu.LiviA minimalistic GTK4 and gstreamer based video player for Linux based mobile phones aiming for minimal battery usage. It works perfectly well on desktops too.
It supports:
- Inhibiting suspend/idle when playing video
- Stopping video playback on (i.e. power button toggled) blank
- Suspending video (but not audio) when window is not visible to save 🔋
- Registering as default video player in GNOME control center
- An indicator whether hardware acceleration is in use
- Setting playback speed
- Play from popular video sites via yt-dlp
Screenshots
Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 0.6.0 | 3 Oct 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
0.6.02 Oct 2026
- Allow arbitrary values for playback speed
- Add keybindings for playback speed
- Extend mrpis metadata and player interface (including setting playback speed)
- Allow to load external subtitles
- Avoid glsinkbin when using gtk4paintablesink
- Translation updates
0.5.06 Jun 2026
New features and bug fixes
- Allow to avoid display notches in landscape
- Show processing state when process URLs
0.4.04 Feb 2026
New features and bug fixes
- Allow to loop the current video
- Fix gear menu styling
- Improve seeking
- Use more metadata from yt-dlp for the MPRIS information
0.3.226 Jul 2025
New features and bug fixes
- Play/pause on mouse click
- Reduce DBus traffic