Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Bomi (ex. CMPlayer) is a graphical user interface for the command-line MPV media player. Among others, it has an intuitive, user friendly interface, unlimited playback history, automatic playlist generation and restoration, support for hardware accelerated GPU decoding and support for dvd playback and image slide show.
The latest version available is Bomi 0.9.10, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below huge list of changes:
- New: ‘Open > From Clipboard’ to open URL from clipboard data
- New: ‘Play > Streaming’ Format to select YouTube format
- New: option to save persitent data in application folder
- New: crop functionality for video clip maker
- New: options to configure preview size in Theme tab in preferences
- New: add playlist name filter for open/append file menus
- New: handle cue sheet as playlist
- Fix: prefer webm & small resolution format for preview
- Fix: YouTube Live streaming didn’t work
- Fix: turn on OpenGL debugger when –debug option given
- Fix: don’t blend subtitle FBO when no subtitle exist
- Fix: render video frame in scene graph thread
- Fix: apply color matrix only if required
- Fix: fps spin box wasn’t enabled for Constant framerate
- Fix: use original size FBO for bilinear scaler
- Fix: codec options in video clip maker were not saved properly
- Fix: ‘Video > Crop’ was broken
- Fix: some color picker buttons had wrong size in preferences dialog
- Fix: video preview was broken for disc playback
- Fix: wrong name filter for playlist file
- Fix: support fine-resolution wheels or touchpad
- Fix: add extensions .ape, .it, .xm for audio files
- Fix: add missing ‘.mod’ extension for audio files
- Fix: ‘pause when hidden’ was always applied all files
- Fix: set maximum duration for animtion to show current playing item in playlist
In this article I will show you how to install Bomi 0.9.10 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Bomi 0.9.10 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is remove previous versions of cmplayer, add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the bomi package. Like this:
$ sudo apt-get remove cmplayer
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:darklin20/bomi
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bomi
Optional, to remove bomi, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove bomi