Media players & KDE Connect multimedia control
What Linux players can be controlled through KDE Connect from an Android phone?
I have tested some - VLC, SMPlayer, Cantata - that work, I know that Amarok works too. Other media players that I use, like mpv, Qmmp and Deadbeef, are not accessed though.
Is there an exhaustive list of the supported players?
Is it possible to make accessible some that are not accessed by default?
Solution 1:
By the KDE Connect /1, 2, 3/ mailing list the KDE Connect supports mediaplayer if they implement the MPRIS /4, 5/ interface.
By the KDE Connect mailing list /6/ there should be a MPRIS2 interface plugin for the DeaDBeeF /7/.
Links
- https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
- https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdeconnect
- https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdeconnect/2016-September/001646.html
- https://community.kde.org/MPRIS
- https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mpris-spec/
- https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdeconnect/2016-September/001648.html
- https://github.com/Serranya/deadbeef-mpris2-plugin
Therefore, you have to see if the MPRIS interface can be enabled or added to the player as an extension or plugin.
Qmmp has the mpris plugin, but it is disabled by default and needs to be enabled under Settings-Plugins-General section:
MPV video player can also get KDE Connect-ed (as described here) like so: download the mpris plugin from here (64bit-only), copy the mpris.so file into the directory ~/.config/mpv/scripts, restart session.
Clementine is by default accessible through KDE-Connect; it is qt-based and widely popular.
QMPlay2 is another multimedia player that is supported. The Mpris2 plugin is enabled by default in "Settings->Modules->Extensions" (I had to disable and re-enable it to make it work though).