Comments on: A VLC alternative called SMPlayer

By: DP

DP — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:11:46 +0000

I used vlc for the longest time, then i started having problems, and found sm player. i will never go back or to anything else again. doesn’t take as much ram to play sm player either

By: chesss

chesss — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:38:04 +0000

SMPlayer is truly sweet player..
its simple but can be powerful.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:53 +0000

Well it did replace VLC on my computer and I’m perfectly happy with it.

By: Olibelson

Olibelson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:59:55 +0000

Have been having problems with VLC in that it seems to load fine and then windows has a problem with it and wants to shut down.

Will this player be a suitable replacement?

I’m a bit new to this sort of thing…

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By: Mickie Laurenz

Mickie Laurenz — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:47:48 +0000

Try rulesPlayer – in my opinion is the best windows MPlayer gui.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/rulesplayer
http://rulesplayer.lessequal.com/

By: p5chin

p5chin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:55:51 +0000

Hi,

I tried GOM player and that too is very good .

Particularly in vlc one cant ff or rewind in smoothly and gom has this and more.

try it. i thought vlc is THE best however, i switched to GOM. it plays rmvb rm etc etc etc.

cool player

By: tash

tash — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:34:24 +0000

I’ve always used just mplayer on linux. This seems like a good windows gui for it finally though. Thanks

By: cc

cc — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:33:41 +0000

I’ve used VLC as well but SMplayer feels more comfortable. It also plays ‘real’ files which is a bonus. It doesn’t play bin files yet but that will probably change soon. It already plays ‘iso’files.

Another thing to keep in mind is that this wonderful piece of software is updated practically everyday so its constantly improving. The author also has a good forum and replies back soon.

Finally, if you’re looking for a bare bones player, there’s another frontend called MPUI which is about 4 mb and can be unzipped and run directly without installation.
http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:40:47 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out Martin.
It has a few things that I always missed on VLC: you can advance forwards and backwards in steps of 10sec., 1 min. or 10 min. that is just invaluable for me. It also keeps a list of recent files which is convenient, and remembering the previous spot is great too. However I think it does not play bin and cue files like vlc can.

By: kurt wismer

kurt wismer — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:09:42 +0000

“The only real difference that I was able to spot was that the SMPlayer is Open Source and that it remembers where the playback of the video stopped.”

vlc is also open source (was that intended to be listed as a difference?), but i can’t say it remembers playback location…

By: ariel

ariel — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:27:53 +0000

does it have frame-advance? thats the one thing that i miss in vlc