gHacks technology news » videolan http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 A VLC alternative called SMPlayer http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:03:54 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/ One of my regular readers CC send me a link to SMPlayer about a week ago and I was testing the frontend for mplayer since. SMPlayer is a video player that is supporting the most important video formats out of the box including avi, mpg, mov, wmv and vob plus numerous other formats.

It is also possible to play DVDs and Internet streams with the video player that is available for Windows and Linux. Several ways of displaying subtitles and various subtitle formats are supported including srt, sub and DVD subtitles. I personally think that SMPlayer is a great alternative to the VLC player.

This could be useful for everyone who is having troubles with VLC for example. 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. Make sure you download the full SMPlayer plus the update.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/feed/ 11 VLC Media Player 0.86b Test 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:58:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/ The VideoLan team has upped a first test version of VLC Media Player 0.86b which happens to be my favorite media player. The new version fixes some crashes, adds VP31 decoding to Windows platforms and Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility. You can download this version right from the VideoLan ftp site; Simply select the version for your operating system (Win,Mac,Linux) and install it. I had no problems using the new version. If you experience crashes you might want to try this new version out.

VLC Media Player is one of the few players that is able to play most file types out of the box without the need for additional codecs or plugins. It does not use a lot of processing power or ram even when playing large video files. A 700 megabyte testfile used about 32 megabytes of ram and most of the time 0-2 processing power. Media Player Classic used less ram on the files (24.6) but between 18-28 processing power. So, if you are looking for a new media player to switch to give VLC a try, it is worth it.

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