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For Developers

TinePlayer is free and open source under the MIT license. It is written in Rust, draws its interface with GTK 4, and plays everything through GStreamer: a video file's audio tracks are already separate streams inside the container, so the file is demuxed once and each chosen track is sent to its own output from a single pipeline. Staying in step is not something that has to be maintained - it is all one clock.

The Source

The repository - the code, and the documentation that lives with it
Building from source - what to install first on each platform, and what you get
Packaging - how the installer, the disk images, and the Debian packages are built
Third-party licenses - everything TinePlayer is built from, and its terms

On macOS, build the packaged application rather than running a local build if a screen reader matters to you. A build made against Homebrew's GTK is silent to VoiceOver, because that build has no AccessKit backend compiled in. See Accessibility.

Driving It From Your Own Software

None of this needs a source build:

Command Line - every option, what each one accepts, and how to run it on each platform
Advanced Integration - launching TinePlayer from a script, a shortcut or another application
Config File - every setting as it appears in config.yaml

Problems and Ideas

Open an issue for anything broken, or start a discussion for anything else.

Reports from people who use a screen reader or rely on audio description are especially useful.