Vivace
A single-process Qt media player with interactive DVD menus
Details
- External ID
- 49014781
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- vivace
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.505973715651135
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Vivace uses only Qt (v6.11.1 or newer) itself — no Qt Widgets, no external player processes. I built it because I wanted SMPlayer's UI conventions and features without depending on the external player processes(mpv/mplayer).It's a ground-up rewrite, not a fork.- DVD playback with interactive menus, from a from-scratch IFO/PCI parser (no libdvdnav)- a hybrid WSOLA + phase-vocoder approach to speed-adjusted audio, since neither algorithm alone sounds good in both directions- secure credential storage via the OS keychain- casting to a phone/tablet over a small embedded web server- a full SMPlayer-style menu layout.Still early stage (v0.1.1) — feedback and bug reports are welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- dvd player with interactive menus
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a custom single-process C++/Qt media player that parses MPEG-2 streams, handles DVD virtual machine navigation, and renders interactive menus without mpv or libvlc requires deep multimedia and codec engineering.
What it would actually take: This demands C++ with Qt6 and direct bindings to low-level multimedia libraries such as libdvdnav, libdvdread, FFmpeg, and audio/video output backends (Vulkan/OpenGL, ALSA/PipeWire). The hardest part is implementing DVD VM state machine bytecode interpretation, seamless multi-angle PTS/DTS synchronization, and subtitle/menu overlay blending without external subprocessing frameworks.
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Competitors
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Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
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