Now look at that. Brad Linder over at the Download Squad discovered a portable version of my favorite media player SMPlayer. SMPlayer itself is a frontend for the highly popular MPlayer which can play most media formats right of the box. It’s a multi-plattform player available for Windows and Linux. The portable version of SMPlayer is available for Windows operating systems. One thing that bothered me after downloading the software was that it was packed in 7z format.
I had to install 7-zip to unpack the package, not sure if there are other packers that support the 7z format by now. That is a bit unfortunate and it would have been nice if another format would be available as well.
SMPlayer is ready to play any video file that you throw at it after uninstallation. Just start the player and load the video that you want. The portable and installation version of SMPlayer use virtually the same amount of computer memory when running.
SMPlayer Portable comes with several themes that can be applied. The differences between the portable and installation version are the following:
- The ini will be written in the SMPlayer folder
- Nothing is written to the Windows Registry
- Default Home folders are not created. Screenshot folder for instance would have to be created separately in the root directory and a path would have to be edited in SMplayer
- No File associations
The main use would be to put the portable version on a stick and use it on computers that do not allow installations and only come with Media Player installed.
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SMPlayer is portable by default…i’ve use my own version since one year…
another player based on MPalyer is Dziobas Rar Player. No need for codecs and you can play movies from RAR arcivs :D
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/Dziobas-Rar-Player.shtml
“I had to install 7-zip to unpack the package, not sure if there are other packers that support the 7z format by now.”
WinRAR can handle them just fine to extract.
SMPlayer is portable by default? cool! it’s truly one of the best players with gui, along with VLC (when smplayer is messing up with subtitles).
“I had to install 7-zip to unpack the package, not sure if there are other packers that support the 7z format by now.”
For an unpacker, I use IZArc. It had no problem unpacking the SmPlayer .7z format.
Thanks for your article. Because of it, I’m trying out smplayer now and so far I’m liking it.
The normal SMPlayer is adding entries to the Registry.
I’m using Exctract Now and have not used those full archivers in the last months :) So, I had to install 7-zip to unpack the file, hehe.
“WinRAR can handle them just fine to extract”,
I was a winrar’s fan too, but…7-zip unpack perfectly rar ;o), it’s free and open source, 7-zip unpack many “setup.exe” so you don’t need to install softwares to try them (+ with sandboxie, it’s perfect), 7-zip unpack iso images so you don’t need to burn them or to play with a software like isobuster, and much more… my 2c, it’s a great software and a “must have” for usenet’s fans.
thx for this smplayer portable, i’m trying it.
Speaking of portable and 7zip (and wonderful compression option), check out 7-Zip Portable or Portable PeaZip. That way, should you decide not to install 7-zip (or comparable), you can simply run the software without actually installing anything.
…and for that matter, you may want to check out MPlayer Portable and/or VLC Portable.
universal extractor is a good app to have when you need to extract odd formats. it even unpacks msi, inno, and other installers, which is very handy!
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
also, portablefreeware is a fantastic website for finding portable apps. it’s the first place i look when i need a tool.
“I had to install 7-zip to unpack the package, not sure if there are other packers that support the 7z format by now.”
I use 7-zip for my everyday needs, but will occaisonally use the free ALZip if it is an unusual format (ALZip handles 7z and 35 others).
http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALZip.aspx
>universal extractor is a good app to have when you need to extract odd formats. it even unpacks msi, inno, and other installers, which is very handy!
App is great but unmaintained which sucks a lot in this case. Especially for inno updates -usualy are not backwards compatible. I must go and search for latest version of innounp to patch it into Universal Extractor… Some other issues from same reasons so I cut down my use of prog in favor of other apps.
“The normal SMPlayer is adding entries to the Registry.”
It does? SMPlayer originally came from Linux, which doesn’t have a registry, so I’d expect it to make a folder for its saved data inside the Application Data folder instead…