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How To Install ExMplayer V5.0.0 On linuxmint-18.03

To Install ExMplayer V5.0.0 On Linux Mint-18.03

ExMplayer is an open source player used to play video and audio files, convert, extract, animate media files and etc. The main features of ExMplayer include 3D video playback support, volume booster, and many more. It is so simple to install ExMplayer V5.0.0 On Linux Mint 18.03, and this video covers the ground in the same process.


Installation

Add the repository of ExMplayer using PPA as follows. 

linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:exmplayer-dev/exmplayer 

You are about to add the following PPA
 ExMplayer is a free GUI front-end for award-winning MPlayer with 3D/2D video playback support ,tools like audio converter,media cutter and audio extractor.It can play audio,video,dvd files(.vob),vcd files(.mpg,.dat) etc and supports network streaming.

Plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including MPEG-1, -2 and -4 (DivX), H.264,H265 /HEVC,VP9, Ogg Vorbis and AAC. Supports subtitles, subtitle decoding is done using the ASS library.So it can play any media formats without any external codecs.


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Configurable keyboard shortcuts and mouse
Facebook sharing( Listening to... Watching....)

For Linux users
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Install youtube-dl from the https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~exmplayer-dev/+archive/ubuntu/exmplayer
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.U9Xd6hHHjk/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
C02AA7C4
gpg: requesting key C02AA7C4 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key C02AA7C4: public key " Launchpad PPA for rupeshsreeraman"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

Now update the system repository. 

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/exmplayer-dev/exmplayer/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]          
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                              
Get:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [11.5 kB]                              
Get:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner amd64 Packages [3,124 B]                 
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease [23.9 kB]               
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]                          
Get:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]                                      
Get:9 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner i386 Packages [3,124 B]   
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Get:45 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse Translation-en [8,344 B]        
Get:46 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse i386 Packages [3,624 B]       
Get:47 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 Packages [4,844 B]            
Get:48 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse Translation-en [1,744 B]      
Get:49 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main i386 Packages [4,836 B]             
Get:50 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [7,400 B]        
Get:51 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [3,996 B]        
Fetched 5,986 kB in 10s (553 kB/s)                                                                
Reading package lists... Done

Now proceed to install the ExMplayer application as follows. 

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install exmplayer -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required

  libcurl3 libmcrypt4
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.

The following additional packages will be installed


  esound-common liba52-0.7.4 libass5 libaudiofile1 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56
  libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbluray1 libbs2b0 libcrystalhd3 libdca0 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libenca0 libesd0
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Setting up libswscale-ffmpeg3:amd64 (7:2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up libvdpau1:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libass5:amd64 (0.13.1-1) ...
Setting up libbs2b0:amd64 (3.1.0+dfsg-2.2) ...
Setting up libvorbisidec1 (1.0.2+svn18153-0.2+deb7u1build0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up mplayer (2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up exmplayer (5.0.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

After the installation, you can access the application from the menu.


you can verify the version by navigating to the help menu.

with this, the method to install ExMplayer V5.0.0 On Linux Mint-18.03 comes to an end.

Tag : Audio Player Linux Mint Media player
FAQ
Q
Way to make video-thumbnails generate from Exmplayer instead of Totem?
A
First, make sure all the ffmpeg (the back of vlc) components you need are installed:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Clear the thumbnail cache, with bleachbit, ubuntu tweak, or this command:

rm ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/*
rm ~/.thumbnails/normal/*
Q
Which media player has seek preview with thumbnails?
A
ExMplayer is an MPlayer GUI with thumbnail seeking. The graphical user interface is Qt-based (same as VLC media player) but it depends on mplayer or mplayer2 package.
Q
Alternative for Exmplyer tool?
A
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A
In the graph what is the signifcant of dots, in the bracket [-0.02%]? Can anyone help me?
Q
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A
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