QuarkPlayer is a multimedia (audio and video) player based on Qt/Phonon. QuarkPlayer is multiplatform, fast, simple and plugin based.

Status

March 2011: project on hold, working on other stuffs

Still very buggy, mostly tested under Windows. Next step is to add unit tests and code coverage in order to get a rock solid code base.

Documentation

QuarkPlayer API Documentation (Doxygen)

Features

• Yet another media player, see Rationales
• Default Phonon backend is MPlayer thus QuarkPlayer gets all MPlayer features
• Any Phonon backend can be used: DirectShow, QuickTime, Xine, GStreamer...
• Video playback
• Audio playback
• Tested on large music libraries (320 GB)
• Fast file browser search, no need to create a database (Winamp 2 way to use)
• Plugin based: everything is a plugin (core is about 4000 LOC)
• Clean and simple code
• Lyrics from LyricWiki.org
• Cover arts from Amazon
• Current playing artist Wikipedia article
• Supported playlist formats: M3U, M3U8, XSPF, PLS, ASX, CUE, WPL

TODO

• Fancy features
• SQL database
• Default MPlayer backend has some severe limitations (bad MP3 VBR length, no DVD navigation, no gapless...)
• Mac OS X
• last.fm, Jamendo and Magnatune support
• Hardware support (iPods...)
• Network protocols (DAAP, DLNA...)
• Unit tests