How to install Powder Player on Ubuntu 17.04 

To install Powder Player on Ubuntu 17.04

Powder Player is a smart and fast video player and torrent client hybrid built based on NW.js, Peerflix and WebChimera.js. It supports video streaming to DLNA, Chromecast, AppleTV, browser and other players. Installing Powder Player is very simple and in this article, we are going to see about the method to install Powder Player on Ubuntu 17.04.

Features

• Fast and reliable
• A host of incredible hotkeys that rival those of VLC
• You can finds subtitles in all languages as well as auto-selects your language
• Furthermore, it supports encoding selection and adding your own subtitles
• Comes with lots of configuration options to make your torrent streaming and downloading experience unique to your personality and needs

Installing Powder Player

In order to install the Powder Player application, make sure you download its package using wget command.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/jaruba/PowderPlayer/releases/download/v1.10/PowderPlayer_v1.10.tar.gz
--2017-08-05 04:54:16--  https://github.com/jaruba/PowderPlayer/releases/download/v1.10/PowderPlayer_v1.10.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
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PowderPlayer_v1.10. 100%[===================> ] 114.78M   464KB/s    in 5m 55s  
2017-08-05 05:00:16 (331 KB/s) - ‘ PowderPlayer_v1.10.tar.gz’  saved [120353400/120353400]

Once the file is downloaded, extract the downloaded file by invoking the tar command.

root@linuxhelp:~# tar xvf PowderPlayer_v1.10.tar.gz
PowderPlayer/resources/bin/ffmpeg/linux/
PowderPlayer/locales/te.pak
PowderPlayer/resources/bin/youtube-dl/youtube-dl
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PowderPlayer/locales/fi.pak
PowderPlayer/locales/sl.pak

After that, go to the the extracted directory with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd PowderPlayer/

Now, execute the following command to trigger the installation of Powder player.

root@linuxhelp:~/PowderPlayer# ./Powder 
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
App Startup Time: 0 minutes 16.281 seconds

During the execution process , it will automatically open the powder application

With this the installation of Powder application is done. Enjoy playing your video files with Powder Player.