SMPlayer using mpv
mpv is another fork of mplayer. Many people have asked to add support for it in SMPlayer. In this video you can see SMPlayer playing a video using mpv: However only very basic things work (play, pause,...
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SMPlayer will support MPV
I’m very happy to announce that the next version of SMPlayer will support MPV. I’m currently adding support for MPV, it’s not an easy task, since every single command has to be reimplemented, so it’s a...
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SMPlayer with support for MPV is now available
After 25 days of hard work and almost 7,000 lines of code, I’m proud to announce the first public version of SMPlayer with support for MPV. MPV is a player based on MPlayer and MPlayer2, with new...
View ArticleDisplaying two subtitles at the same time, now it’s possible
This is a long-awaited feature. Now SMPlayer can display two subtitles at the same time. The first subtitle is shown on the bottom of the image, the second one on the top. This is available since SVN...
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Support for video sites (not only youtube)
A new very interesting feature, thanks to the newly added support for mpv, is the possibility to play videos from many video sites. Youtube was already supported, but now you can play videos from...
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How to play a 1080p video from Youtube with SMPlayer
The following requires SMPlayer from SVN + mpv 0.7.0 + youtube-dl. Visit http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/mpv to know how to get them. Windows users only need to download the package from that page,...
View ArticleHow to install SMPlayer with mpv
Now it’s not necessary anymore to use a special installer to install SMPlayer with mpv. The regular installer gives the possibility to install either mplayer or mpv. Just click on “Playback components”...
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How to use SMPlayer with mpv in Ubuntu
SMPlayer now supports mpv, which brings new interesting features. Click here to know more. This article explains how to get the latest version of SMPlayer and mpv in Ubuntu. To get the latest version...
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How to play YouTube live streams with SMPlayer
If you try to play a YouTube live stream with SMPlayer you’ll probably get the error “unable to locate the URL of the video”. This happens because the SMPlayer internal support for YouTube can’t handle...
View ArticleLinux users may need to update mpv in order to use SMPlayer 17.10
The mpv developers have deprecated some video and audio filters. SMPlayer 17.10 stops using those deprecated filters and is now using new filters. Unfortunately older versions of mpv may not have those...
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