 When it comes to video players, I'm pretty picky. Honestly, it's really MPV for me or bust MPV is the best video player on Linux and I don't think it's even close to be honest with you But that doesn't mean that it's not good and proper to actually go and you know We'll look at other options because that's what we do on the Linux cast We look at other options and we try new things and that's how you learn and grow So today we're going to be taking a look at a new video player called Haruna I think that's what it's called Haruna and it is Different in that it is super customizable But also that it's written in Qt. Now, that's actually fairly rare There's not a lot of video players out there written in Qt. It's this is means It's usually a key application, but you could use it anywhere, of course most and in fact all Desktop environments support Qt and you could obviously download all the Requirements for it if you don't happen to have them already. So Haruna is very customizable as I said So first let's go ahead and take a look at what it actually looks like So this right here is Haruna and as you can see what it's doing right now It's actually streaming Brody's gaming stream. That's happening right now. It's not doing a very good job of it So let's just start off with something negative as I usually do I'm not sure if there is an option to increase the buffer size that you can actually like you can increase the buffer size on MPv which basically means that you can stream live streams much easier because it will get you a Buffer to play from so it doesn't just sit there and stall every few seconds That doesn't seem to be the case with Haruna. I haven't actually delved into anything yet So I don't know whether or not there's an option to change that there probably is actually given the number of options But as it is right now live streaming on it not that great just out of the box So just pointing that out But it does as you can see give you the option to play videos from anywhere you can take any YouTube or You know Vimeo or whatever URL you want plug it in here and watch it even if it's live So that's really cool and also as you can see it is very much a KDE application So it has all of the stuff that you would you know expect to see you know in a KDE application It has all the bells and whistles, you know the configuring keyboard shortcuts in the all the you know Settings and stuff like that that will go through over here in a minute And it just looks very much like a Qt application now This obviously is not going to fit in with everyone's aesthetic. So if you're using GNOME, this is not going to fit in very well. There are probably better options for you In terms of things that actually fit in with your desktop environment, but if you're using KDE This could be a very good option for you because it's going to fit in aesthetically It's going to use your KDE plasma theme if you have one set up I'm just using the breeze theme right now, but if you're using you know the windows theme or the You know the sweet candy theme or whatever hell it's called You know it would use that and it would fit in with the rest of your operating system Which is pretty nice. So let me actually stop this here. We don't need to keep that going It does actually look like it keeps buffering. So if you wanted to catch a buffer You could pause it and then play it from there and it wouldn't actually keep stuttering So it would play much better now that it has a little bit of a Of a cache. So that's cool This is a video player. Honestly, we could probably stop right here. It plays videos. It does it fairly well We could stop there But what makes haruna interesting isn't that it plays videos because if it didn't play videos it wouldn't need to exist What makes it interesting actually is the amount of settings that it comes with So i'm actually going to show you The settings right here. So if we start out you can basically customize anything about this application You can customize the interface in any number of ways. You can change obviously the Color scheme you'll get more options for color schemes if you have more color schemes installed You can alter many different playback options, you know the amount of Time that it seeks When you press the button you can change whether or not the hardware encoding is enabled or disabled It looks like it's enabled by default, which is probably the proper option It does have an option to remember time position, which is not all that usual in video players MPv does it. I think vlc does it, but I think that's mostly it So this does have that option, which is really nice It does give you the option to skip chapters by default skip words I don't really know what that means Skip words, but oh maybe if the Chapter has a specific word in it. It will automatically skip it That could be cool. It does have some youtube dl Integration inside of it, which is nice if you use that thing don't use that thing Obviously, you're not supposed to wink wink It also allows you to take screenshots and gives you some options for Uh video playback and image adjustments the same thing with some audio It doesn't have a lot of audio stuff here. I'm honestly surprised. There's not a lot of a lot more audio Options here, but it does have some honestly. I am kind of surprised that there aren't more It gives you some options for sub subtitles. It can you can load in custom subtitles if you want to It gives you options for styling the subtitles You can create playlists of videos if you wanted to watch like a Season of tv shows you could do so right inside of this and it would show you the playlist on the right or left side Depending on how you want it. There are some options for customizing how the mouse works inside of haruna End is with every single kde application out there There are a ton of options for customizing your keyboard shortcuts. So if you are a keyboard centric User of the operating system. Let me see if I can get this centered again. Thank you Xmonad you can go in here and customize any keyboard shortcut that you like And that's freaking amazing now. Obviously, this is not the only Video application that does this if you use mpv you can customize all the key bindings there too as well I think vlc gives you some options for that as well. So it's not unique here But still it's really cool if that's the way you like to use your video applications so the big deal here is that it does give you the option to Customize a ton of stuff But also on top of that you can't import your own configuration files So if you have a configuration file saved from somewhere else, you could import that if you want to That's really cool So that means that you can move this from computer to computer very much like you can with mpv, which is nice So that is basically haruna at its core. So the question then becomes why would you use this? Why not just use mpv Why not just use vlc gnom videos or whatever you currently use? Well, there are a couple things so first obviously And I think the biggest one is going to be compatibility with the desktop environment that you're using So if you're using plasma and you theme all your stuff with plasma stuff This is going to fit in better than basically anything else It's going to use your plasma themes and it's just going to look better Inside of your environment than anything else probably could that's probably the biggest one The other one is the customizability. This is a fairly new application so It's going to be growing in terms of options that it has and it already has quite a few options available to you To actually customize how it looks feels and operates so Going through this if you like customizing things This is an option for you now. I will say it's probably not the most customizable Video player out there. It's not there yet, but it is new and because it is a kde application now You can expect there to be development on it fairly frequently And if you've ever used a kde application before you'll know that they like their options So you're going to see more and more options come to this application as it matures So that's the second reason why you'd want to use it now me personally Well, let's just put it this way. I Much prefer mpv and nothing I don't think that there's anything under the sun that could possibly get me to go away from mpv mpv is just the best But that being said there's nothing wrong with haruna. It works really really well It gives you the options that you need to have plus quite a few others And if you are a keyboard centric user and you don't want to configure all your keyboard shortcuts via configuration file The ability to customize all those things right in their settings is really cool. 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