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I know it has been a while however..., wherever I found it, I think at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smplay ... yer/21.8.0
SMPlayer-21.8.0-x86_64.AppImage meets most of the needs of my remote IP cam on Fossapup64. This is a full featured Multimedia browser and BIG. It uses almost the same resources as MPV on my machine and I am fairly well impressed so far.

My camera records in .264, not H264 but the generic version. Live feed gives me great sound though the recorded video on the camera's remote storage SD card seems to play no sound. (Still looking into that.)

I have tried many multimedia players and this one can at least play video at real time / speed from the card in my SV3C camera in great quality. Just wanted to mention the Appimage for folks who might have problems with playing things in real time speed. It also has a youtube browser that works out of the box. It is a big file, 129MB but I run it from a storage partition and I have plenty of room right now

@peppyy :-

Thanks for digging this up, mate.

If I'd tried this straight-away in Fossapup64, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about it. I'd have clicked on it, it would have fired-up, and that would have been the end of it.

As it was, I was in Bionicpup64 last night.....and Bionicpup64 has - for me at least! - always been problematic with Qt5 stuff. With AppImages, especially, if they won't run then I've got into the habit of stripping them down, quickly running up a 'test-portable' with an 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' clause to point directly at its own included libs, and testing to see if that works. If so, I'll then build that either into a portable version, OR a re-built AppImage using Fred's scripts. Sometimes I combine the two approaches.

If I'm perfectly frank, I would say that the move to Bionicpup64 as my regular "daily driver" has been almost solely responsible for the recent 'explosion' in my 'portable' application offerings. If I hadn't had the Bionic Qt5 'issue' to deal with the portable format/layout that I use would never have got off the ground...

And that's WHY the thread about SMPlayer-portable exists in the Multimedia section.

Mike.