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 0.9.9, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below huge list of changes:
- New: Play > Seek > Previous Playback
- Fix: duplicated internal subtitle handling causes high CPU usage
- Fix: crop paddings added by VDPAU for non-standard res. videos
- Fix: Start/End time filters in subtitle viewer didn’t follow system palette
- Fix: seeking in subtitle viewer was broken when captions are filtered
- Fix: ‘Scroll to current time’ in subtitle viewer was broken
- Fix: wrong intial state for ‘Show start/end time’ in Subtitle Viewer
- Fix: adjust column widths for Start and End automatically in Subtitle Viewer
- Fix: wrong time text width for native skin
In this article I will show you how to install Bomi 0.9.9 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 0.9.9 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