Windows users have two choices when selecting a media player: Select a player that makes use of system wide codecs or a player that comes equipped with all codecs. The later players offer the advantage that it is usually not necessary to go codec hunting to play a video on the computer system.
SMPlayer is an mplayer frontend that belongs to the second category of media players. The software comes with all codecs needed to play all popular and lots of lesser popular video and media files on the system.
Today version 0.6.9 of SMPlayer has been released by the developers. The release fixes a freezing problems under Linux, a bug that prevented the player from finding subtitles, the possibility to display the video resolution and frames per second in the status bar.
What can SMPlayer do besides play almost any video out of the box?
- Can play videos, DVDs, and VCDs
- Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles
- Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
- Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
- Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
- Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X… and even in slow motion.
- Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise… and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
- Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
- Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
- Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
- Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org. - Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese….
- It’s multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows and Linux.
SMPlayer 0.6.9 can be downloaded from the project’s homepage for Windows and Linux.
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I´ve realized that MPlayer updates quite more frequently than SMPlayer, can I update the MPlayer files inside SMPlayer without causing issues?
I use KM Player. How does SM Player compare?
I like your articles, but I would really appreciate it if you would use a proofreader. The frequent inclusion of incorrect words forces the reader to pause and decipher what was really meant. Useful content, though.
Margin, can you please provide an example? Thanks.