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QtPotato

A KDE video player built on mpv that translates subtitles with an LLM.

QtPotato is a Qt 6 / Kirigami video player for Linux. Playback is handled by libmpv, and the interface is modelled after [Haruna](https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/haruna). It can also translate a whole subtitle track with any OpenAI-compatible API and show the result in the player. ## Features - **Subtitle translation**: sends a text subtitle track (embedded or external) to an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API in batches, with nearby lines as context. The result is cached as an `.srt` file, so the same video does not have to be translated twice. - **mpv playback**: hardware decoding and everything else libmpv supports. Your `mpv.conf` is loaded at startup (can be turned off in the settings). - **Subtitles**: track selection, a secondary subtitle, delay, font size and outline settings. - **Playlist**: other videos in the same folder are added automatically, with repeat and stop-after modes. - **Recent files**, **MPRIS** (media keys and Plasma's media controls), and full screen with auto-hiding controls. - Follows your Plasma style, colours and icons. ## Building ### Dependencies - CMake ≥ 3.25 and a C++20 compiler - Qt ≥ 6.8 (Core, Gui, Qml, Quick, QuickControls2, Widgets, Network, Concurrent, DBus) - KDE Frameworks ≥ 6.10: Extra CMake Modules, Kirigami, KI18n, KCoreAddons, KCrash, KConfig - [MpvQt](https://invent.kde.org/libraries/mpvqt) ≥ 1.0 - [QCoro](https://github.com/qcoro/qcoro) ≥ 0.10 (Qt 6) - [QtKeychain](https://github.com/frankosterfeld/qtkeychain) ≥ 0.14 (Qt 6) - FFmpeg (libavformat, libavcodec, libavutil) On Arch Linux: ```sh sudo pacman -S cmake ninja extra-cmake-modules qt6-base qt6-declarative \ kirigami ki18n kcoreaddons kcrash kconfig mpvqt qcoro qtkeychain-qt6 ffmpeg ``` ### Build and run ```sh cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release cmake --build build ./build/bin/qtpotato [file] ``` To install system-wide: ```sh sudo cmake --install build ``` ### Tests ```sh cmake -B build -DBUILD_TESTING=ON cmake --build build ctest --test-dir build ``` ### AppImage ```sh packaging/appimage/build-appimage.sh [build-dir] ``` The script downloads linuxdeploy and bundles the Qt, KF6 and mpv libraries from the host. The AppImage only runs on distros whose glibc is at least as new as the build machine's. ## Translating subtitles 1. Open **Settings → Translation** (`Ctrl+Shift+,`) and fill in: - **API base URL**: the OpenAI-compatible endpoint including the version path, for example `https://api.openai.com/v1` or `http://localhost:11434/v1` for Ollama. - **API key**: stored in your system wallet (KWallet / Secret Service), not in the config file. - **Model**: type a name or click **Load Models** to fetch the list from the API. - **Translate into**: the target language, written the way you would tell the model (default: Vietnamese). 2. Play a video and select the subtitle track you want to translate. 3. Press `Ctrl+T` (**Subtitles → Translate Subtitle**). Progress is shown in the player; when it finishes, the translated track replaces the original. Translations are cached in `~/.cache/qtpotato/translations/` as `