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Bomi 0.9.11 is now available in the MX-19 Test repository

Three years ago I built Bomi for MX-15. Nobody requested it for MX-17/18 so I forgot about it.
I was recently reminded and discovered it had not had much maintenance since then. I was skeptical that an app written with Qt 5.2 & ffmpeg from 4 ABI versions ago would build with Qt 5.11 & a new ffmpeg, but surprisingly it only needed minor fiddling and one small forward port.

Bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux. It provides a easy-to-use graphical user interface(GUI). You can find all features in the context menu. All configurations can be done in a preferences dialog.
Bomi records all playback history by default and provdes the way to resume playback later. bomi also tracks playback states such as selected audio/loaded subtitle etc.
Bomi can generate playlist based on file name. Also, last played playlist is saved and restored automatically.
Bomi supports various subtitle formats. bomi can render multiple subtitle files at the same time. Bomi also can render styled subtitles such as SAMI and ASS format.

As with any package in testing, please leave feedback if you try Bomi

Enjoy!

ok very excited here. i didn't even know such a thing existing. one of hte things i don't like about gnome-mpv is that it doesn't have a resume feature.

got this error on install
installed that manually from ahs/main and now OK.

Thanks. I was pretty sure I did not have ahs enabled when I built that so I'll have to go back & check. It really shouldn't need that version...

Installed OK for me non-ahs

it may be a function of how test in mx-packageinstaller works. I wouldn't have thought so but its possible. there is a libva-glx2 in test as well...

Yeah, but if it was built on a clean Buster platform, like we try to do with pbuilder, sbuild, or in a virtual machine, it shouldn't need the newer package. (Not that I haven't done the same goof from time to time)

I'm running ahs anyway, so Bomi installs and works as advertised.

VLC and SMPlayer do have the same resume feature.

None of the Bomi dependencies are higher than available in the debian buster repos. In particular for that libva-glx2 (>= 1.0.3) dependency, libva-glx2 in buster is at 2.4.0

timkb4cq wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:35 pm None of the Bomi dependencies are higher than available in the debian buster repos. In particular for that libva-glx2 (>= 1.0.3) dependency, libva-glx2 in buster is at 2.4.0

yeah, I think its an issue with how mx-packageinstaller installs from test with the -t a=mx,c=test switch. looks like it was trying to install the test repo version of libva-glx2, but since I already had ahs libva, which was newer, I got a fault.

but loving bomi...