Sovereign audio/video playback — zero DRM, zero cloud, zero telemetry.
Every major streaming platform and media player today requires DRM modules — Widevine, FairPlay, or EME/CDM — that phone home to license servers before you can play your own files. They beacon “now playing” data. They enforce artificial restrictions on content you legally own.
LimenGate’s Media Player decodes everything locally via GStreamer. No license servers. No beacons. No cloud transcoding. Your media. Your machine. Your rules.
Local decode via GStreamer (LGPL-2.1). No cloud transcoding. No format lock-in.
MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AAC, Opus. Lossless and lossy. All decoded locally — no streaming service required.
H.264, VP8, VP9, AV1 (royalty-free, preferred). Hardware acceleration where available. Containers: MP4, MKV, WebM, OGG, AVI.
Industry-standard multimedia framework. Plugin-based architecture. LGPL-2.1 licensed. Battle-tested across Linux, used by GNOME, KDE, and embedded systems worldwide.
Each an original design. No copyrighted assets. Cycle with one click.
Warm amber gradients. The default LimenGate skin — fire behind glass.
Electric cyan and violet. Retro-futurism meets sovereign tech.
Pure dark. Minimal chrome. Maximum focus on the content.
Warm orange to deep purple gradient. Calm, focused playback.
Green on black. Monospace metadata. For those who live in the shell.
Translucent glass effect with soft light refractions. Clean and modern.
The official FlameNet Codex skin. Luma-compliant, IBR Annex H palette.
Custom skins from ~/.limen/skins/. JSON format, documented in the Scrolls.
Audio: .mp3 .flac .ogg .wav .aac .opus .wma .m4a
Video: .mp4 .mkv .webm .avi .mov .ogv .flv
Containers: Matroska, MP4/M4V, WebM, OGG, AVI
Subtitles: .srt .ass .ssa .vtt (external files)