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Light Video

A modern and simple GTK based video player (not only) for mobile phones.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Light Video is a media player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: hardware acceleration.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A minimalistic GTK4 and gstreamer based video player for Linux based mobile phones aiming for minimal battery usage.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “An indicator whether hardware acceleration is in use” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Light Video is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A minimalistic GTK4 and gstreamer based video player for Linux based mobile phones aiming for minimal battery usage. It works perfectly well on desktops too. It supports: Inhibiting suspend/idle when playing video Stopping video playback on (i.e. power button toggled) blank Suspending video (but not audio) when window is not visible to save 🔋 Registering as default video player in GNOME control center An indicator whether hardware acceleration is in use Setting playback speed Play from popular video sites via yt-dlp

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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