SMPlayer Uncommon Codecs Package

SMPlayer is my video player of choice. It comes with the most commonly used video and audio codecs installed and it is quite uncommon that one runs into a video that cannot be played out of the box in SMPlayer. A great advantage of SMPlayer in my opinion is the way it stores the codecs. They are actually stored in the SMPlayer directory and not global codecs which means it is highly unlikely that you will run into incompatibilities.

I recently discovered that a so called additional codecs package for SMPlayer, and MPlayer obviously, is available and can be installed to support additional video and audio formats. These codecs will also be installed as so called binary codecs straight into the SMPlayer folder.

The major problem that I ran into was that I was not able to find a list of the codecs that are installed this way. The only possibility that I can think of right now is to search for the filenames in a search engine which will reveal their purpose. The codec package adds 63 new files to the codec directory. I probably would only install it if I would encounter a video that I could not play properly though.

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Tags: codecs, mplayer, smplayer, smplayer codecs, video-player
Categories: Music and Video, Tools, software

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3 Responses to “SMPlayer Uncommon Codecs Package”

1. Transcontinental says:

   May 7, 2008 at 11:26 am

   Hello Martin,

   Concerning SMPlayer which I use myself, I have found an interesting pack, “a full package of MPlayer for Windows and the MPUI front-end.”, which includes, in that one pack, all codecs, MPlayer as well as SMPlayer, enabling you to choose between MPlayer and SMPlayer for the front-end. Works fine, regularly updated :

   http://majorgeeks.com/MPlayer_d5663.html

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2. Cheryl says:

   May 8, 2008 at 3:41 pm

   I use SMPlayer too but I don’t have the additional codecs installed. Till date, I haven’t had any trouble playing files. Methinks that these codecs are probably really obscure and I may never find a file that needs them.

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