Player Video

Only applies to Linux 4.9 OS.

The system preinstalled two video player with hardware decoding support.

  • kplayer - a command video player with hardware decoding support
  • kodi - a free and open-source media player software application developed by the XBMC Foundation

Kplayer is a command video player with hardware decoding support, so you need to switch to command line interface to player videos, if you use desktop images, you can use Ctrl+Alt+F1 switch to command line interface.

Usage: kplayer xxx.mp4

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khadas@Khadas:~$ kplayer 720P.mkv 

Use Ctrl+C to exit video player.

Info

Use Ctrl+Alt+F7 switch to desktop environment.

VIM2 doesn't support Kodi.

Just type kodi to launch it in command line interface.

You can use Applications->Sound & Video->Kodi to launch it in desktop environment.