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SMPlayer 16.11 has been released

November 6, 2016, 2:54 pm
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This version brings two new features:

Media info in the OSD

There’s the new option ‘Show info on OSD’ in View -> OSD (shortcut Shift + I). It displays info about the current media (resolution, bitrate…) on the OSD.
osd

Press “Shift + I” (or just “I”) to turn it off.

New configuration options for the playlist

There are available more options in Preferences -> Playlist to better control the behaviour of the playlist. Some of the new options will allow the playlist to be more suitable to store bookmarks (turn off the options “start playback after loading the playlist” and “play next file automatically”). The current favourites menu in SMPlayer is not designed to handle many items, however the playlist can support without problem hundreds and even thousands of items, so I think for bookmarks with a lot of items it’s better to use the playlist.

Another change in the playlist, now the load/save buttons are grouped together in a popup menu.

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Support for Chromecast in SMPlayer 17.1

January 20, 2017, 9:46 am
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SMPlayer 17.1 features experimental support for Chromecast. Now you can send videos from SMPlayer to your Chromecast device, including local files from your computer and online streams such as TV channels or videos from sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Vevo and many more.

Notice however that Chromecast only supports a limited list of formats and codecs, so some videos won’t play. Click here to see the list of supported media.

Requirements

  • SMPlayer 17.1
  • Google Chrome browser (or Chromium) with the Google Cast extension installed.
  • Ubuntu and debian users must install the package webfs (sudo apt-get install webfs). This is a tiny web server that SMPlayer will run in order to serve local files to Chromecast.

How to play a video on Chromecast

Start to play a video in SMPlayer, then select the option Play on Chromecast from the Play menu. (After that you can stop playback in SMPlayer).

Note: at this point Windows users will probably get a notification from the Windows firewall. Please click on “Allow access”. Otherwise Chromecast won’t be able to access the files in your computer.

A web page will be opened in your web browser with the URL of the video. This web page can communicate with your Chromecast device. You’ll find options to connect/disconnect, start playback and controls for play, pause, volume, seek…

Chromecast control

Important: although SMPlayer will open the web page with your default web browser this will probably only work with Google Chrome and Chromium.

Subtitles are not supported yet.

There’s also an option in the context menu of the playlist to open the selected video on Chromecast.

Web server

In order to server local files (from your computer) to Chromecast, SMPlayer will run a tiny web server. You can change some of the settings for the server (like the port to use) in the SMPlayer preferences: Network -> Chromecast.

Click here to download SMPlayer 17.1

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Subtitle support for Chromecast in SMPlayer 17.3

March 6, 2017, 1:48 pm
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SMPlayer 17.1 added support for Chromecast. Now SMPlayer 17.3 has just added the possibility to display subtitles on Chromecast (still an experimental feature).

However currently there are some limitations:

  • Only external subtitles are supported.
  • The subtitles must be in the same folder of the video.
  • The subtitles must be in vtt format.

How to use subtitles, step by step

  • First you need to convert the subtitles to vtt. You can convert subtitles in srt format to the vtt format here: http://chromecast.smplayer.info/convert-srt-to-vtt. Or just use any other tool you may find on the Internet. Store the vtt file in the same folder of the video.
  • Play the video in SMPlayer and select the vtt subtitle from the menu Subtitles -> Primary track.
  • Select the option Play on Chromecast from the Play menu.

Now connect to Chromecast and start playback as usual. The subtitles should be displayed on the TV screen.

Note: you can actually select a subtitle in srt or any other format in SMPlayer, but the SMPlayer Chromecast Control will try to use a subtitle file with the same name but with the vtt extension.

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New: subtitles settings for Chromecast

April 5, 2017, 2:28 pm
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Now it’s possible to select the font, size and color of the subtitles in the SMPlayer Chromecast Control.

Subtitles settings for Chromecast

If you’re playing a video with subtitles on Chromecast changes in this section take effect immediately.

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SMPlayer 17.8 has been released

August 10, 2017, 1:28 pm
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SMPlayer 17.8 brings a new audio filter which makes the audio easier to listen to on headphones. You can find it in the menu Audio -> Filters.

This is the ffmpeg earwax filter. From the ffmpeg documentation:

This filter adds ‘cues’ to 44.1kHz stereo (i.e. audio CD format) audio so that when listened to on headphones the stereo image is moved from inside your head (standard for headphones) to outside and in front of the listener (standard for speakers).

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SMPlayer 17.9: now you can change the search method for subtitles

August 30, 2017, 1:12 pm
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SMPlayer 17.9 gives the possibility to change the search method for finding subtitles on opensubtitles.org. SMPlayer has always used in the past the “hash” method, now it’s possible to search by filename.

This is an explanation of both methods:

  • Hash: SMPlayer calculates a hash key from the video file and uses that hash, along with the file size, to search on opensubtitles. This is the most accurate method because it will return subtitles for your video, even if you rename the video file. On the other hand opensubtitles must have the hash in its database in order this method to work.
  • Filename: SMPlayer will search for subtitles just using the filename. This may return more results than the previous method but some of the subtitles may not be suitable for your video.

In order to change it, click on the Options button in the Find Subtitles window.

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Linux users may need to update mpv in order to use SMPlayer 17.10

September 30, 2017, 1:44 pm
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The mpv developers have been 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 filters. This can cause playback without audio or video. A workaround is to turn off all video and audio filters. If you don’t have audio, turn off the audio equalizer in Preferences -> General -> Audio. Another workaround is to switch to mplayer by selecting mplayer as multimedia engine in Preferences -> General.

Of course the proper solution is to update mpv. Ubuntu users will find a recent version of mpv, which works perfectly fine with SMPlayer 17.10, in this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/mpv-tests

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SMPlayer 17.10.2 has been released

October 17, 2017, 10:01 am
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These are the changes:

  • New option in Preferences -> Network to select the preferred quality for streaming sites such as DailyMotion, Vimeo and so on (all those which are handled by youtube-dl).
  • The audio equalizer is now disabled by default on Linux to prevent a no sound problem for users with old versions of mpv.
  • Fix some problems with the letterbox filter (the ‘add black borders’ option).
  • The HDPI support is now also enabled on the portable package for Windows.
  • Fix subtitles not disappearing when using the letterbox filter with mplayer.
  • Fix: now the time is correctly displayed in the thumbnail generator pictures when SMPlayer is built with Qt 5.
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SMPlayer 17.11 has been released

November 3, 2017, 3:03 pm
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Main changes:

  • The video equalizer by software has been fixed.
  • The thumbnail generator is now more precise with short videos.
  • The audio quality of the audio equalizer has been improved.
  • The option “add black borders on fullscreen” has been fixed.
  • The option “AC3/DTS passthrough over S/PDIF” has been fixed.

Click here to download

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SMPlayer 18.2.2 brings the possibility of subtitles with semi-transparent background

February 19, 2018, 12:42 pm
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Now in SMPlayer 18.2.2 is possible to display subtitles with a semi-transparent background.

Go to Preferences -> Subtitles -> Font and colors, select Opaque box as border style, now you can adjust the level of opacity of the background.

Other changes in this version:

  • The option Open -> URL can now also load YouTube playlists.
  • The options for the preferred number of track for audio and subtitles are back.
  • (mpv) Now the direct3d is the default video output for Windows, since some users reported problems with the gpu output.

Download SMPlayer 18.2.2

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New dark theme

June 13, 2018, 2:05 pm
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smplayer-themes 18.6 includes a new dark theme. Some screenshots:

To use it, go to Preferences -> Interface, select “Basic GUI” as GUI and “Dark” as icon set.

 

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SMPlayer 18.9 features the possibility to cast videos to mobile devices

September 27, 2018, 12:57 pm
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SMPlayer 18.9 provides an experimental feature to send videos from your computer to mobiles devices, like smartphones and tablets, in a very simple way.

All you have to do is open a video in SMPlayer and then select the option Cast to -> Smartphone/tablet within the Play menu.

SMPlayer will display a QR code which you can scan with your device. It provides the URL of the video which you can open with any media player in your device.

If you open the URL with an application such BubbleUPnP, LocalCast or similar, then you can cast the video to any device supported by that application, like Chromecast, TVs with DLNA support, Fire TV and so on.

What do you think about this feature? Do you think it’s useful?

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Sources moved to github.com

March 16, 2021, 6:49 am
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SMPlayer available for Mac OS

July 6, 2021, 1:15 am
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SMPlayer 21.8 has been released

August 31, 2021, 7:06 am
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Main changes:

  • A version for Mac OS is now available.
  • Better automatic resizing of the main window, trying to prevent black borders.
  • Fix loading YouTube playlists.
  • Add an option to rotate the video by 180 degrees.
  • Playlist: try to prevent a one second delay when using play prev/next.
  • Add some predefined speeds (0.25x, 0.5x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x).
  • Fix audio CD playback with mpv.
  • Fix audio channels.

Windows:

  • The installation of YouTube support is now optional.
  • Using Qt 5.15.2.

Linux:

  • Disable power saving on Wayland during playback.
  • Remove KDE from the categories in the *.desktop files.
  • SMPlayer is now also available as appimage, flatpak and snap.
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How to fix the video problem on Wayland

August 31, 2021, 7:19 am
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Some people reported problems when using SMPlayer on a Linux desktop with Wayland. The main problem usually is the video being on a separate window, but it can also be a black window or a crash when trying to play a video.

Here is how to fix it. There are two possible ways:

  1. Select a different video output in Preferences -> General -> Video. Usually at least x11 should work.
  2. Install SMPlayer using a flatpak or snap package. These packages provide patched versions of mpv and mplayer which should fix the problem. More info here: https://www.smplayer.info/install-snap-flatpak-appimage.php
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SMPlayer available in the Microsoft Store

October 5, 2021, 6:43 am
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