SMPlayer is a

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graphical front-end for

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and mpv and forks of Mplayer using

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s offered by Qt. SMPlayer is

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subject to the terms of the

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version 2 or later. SMplayer has been localized in more than 30 languages.

Features

Some of the features of SMPlayer are: holding a memory of the time position of each file it has played,

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/ video filters and equalizer, variable speed playback (it also allows for frame-by-frame playback, forwards or backwards), configurable subtitles with Internet fetch, YouTube & Radio & TV support with playback of up to

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at 60 fps, skinnable user interface, automatic support for EDL files, and Chromecast support (requires

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and the "webfs" package.)

Packages

SMPlayer is built with Qt and is based on MPlayer. This makes it quite portable, since MPlayer and Qt are already available on all major operating systems. On the operating systems on which SMPlayer has not yet been ported to, it is likely possible to run the application through

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with another Unix or Linux. In addition to the Windows packages, official binary packages are provided for

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. Many distributions provide packages in their repositories. For

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, SMPlayer is available for installation from source via the ports tree and also available as binary packages for most major FreeBSD releases.

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also provides binary packages and is available in its

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as well. SMPlayer is not available yet on

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, either in binary format or in

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. NetBSD should be able to run the FreeBSD binary without much trouble.

Windows

Current versions of SMPlayer bundle all codecs inside the installer, therefore there is no longer any need for a web connection during install. Originally, SMPlayer was distributed with a NSIS generated setup (previously

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) Since version 0.6.7. This installer was capable of downloading and installing the latest

and MPlayer codec packages during setup. An alternative installer was available with MPlayer included for off-line installs. "Portable" (no installer) versions are also available in

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format. An independent

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developer offers different Windows packages based on MPlayer binaries ported by Gianluigi Tiesi.

Abandoned Forks

* ''UMPlayer'': An abandoned fork that offered integration with SHOUTcast streams and support for

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. Since the UMPlayer project is no longer active, the SMPlayer team recommend to use SMPlayer instead, however, they do provide their own updated version of UMPlayer with fixes for its YouTube support * ''SMPlayer2'': An abandoned fork targeted at

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users, as of 2014 replaced by SMPlayer with mpv.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smplayer 2006 software Free media players Free video software Linux media players Portable software Video software that uses Qt Windows media players