The application uses a slick, clutter-based user interface and is designed to play videos without getting in your way, with controls displayed in a semi-transparent overlay that uses autohide and a seek bar that shows a thumbnail preview for a given mark in the video, eliminating the need to manually seek to see what happens at a certain point in the video. For the menu, Audience uses an elementary-style AppMenu instead of a classic menu bar:

Audience doesn't have any settings and the only thing you can configure are the subtitles (language), though some options like lock / unlock window resizing to the aspect ration of the current video, enable/disable video resuming and others are available in Dconf.

Install Audience in Ubuntu

Before installing, please note that Audience is not stable yet! The application is available in a daily PPA, for testing purposes only. To install it in Ubuntu 11.10, you'll also have to add a PPA that provides Granite and the one for the latest Vala (this isn't required for Ubuntu 12.04).

Granite is available in the elementary testing PPA - add it using the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/testing

To add the Vala PPA (not required for Ubuntu 12.04), use the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:audience-members/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install audience

For other Linux distributions, you can get the code via Launchpad.





Audience is currently under heavy development and you will find bugs! Report them @ Launchpad

At the time I'm writing this, the Ubuntu Precise 64bit package failed to build. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.Arch Linux users can install Audience from AUR