BeyondPlayer (originally called Source Player) is an open source video player for English learner. It supports almost all common video types and playback functionalities.

What makes it unique is its dedicated features for English study, such as:

• View definition in pop-up dictionary
• Drag and select to loop lines
• Save video clip to clip library
• Highly configurable web dictionaries
• YouTube player and browser
• Collect word to word book and word list
• Blur out hardcoded subtitle
• Automatically hide subtitle
• Automatically download subtitles

See Product Page or BeyondPlayer Wiki for more about this app.

For the moment, it supports MacOS only, but I hope it will support Windows soon.

Install dependencies

# Before installing the dependencies, make sure you have nodejs (12.x), yarn, xcode installed.

cd {PROJECT_ROOT}/scripts
./install_mpvjs.sh

Debug

cd {PROJECT_ROOT}/src
npm run dev

Then Press F5 in Visual Studio Code

Build

Dev Build

# Before building it, make sure you have electron-packager installed globally (by npm install electron-packager -g)

cd {PROJECT_ROOT}/scripts
./build_dev.sh

If everything goes as planned, you will find the dev build under {PROJECT_ROOT}/build.

License

BeyondPlayer is based on mpv.js and Electron, for complete open source softwares used by this app, see Open Source Software Attribution

Acknowlegement

BeyondPlayer leveraged OpenSubtitle API for subtitle searching and downloading.