Comments on: SMPlayer – Linux Video Player

By: DaVince

DaVince — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:19:58 +0000

epi: why the hell are you running a media player as root? You should never have to do this, not even for performance improvement (there is pretty much none and you could just root your way to improving its priority while not actually running the app as root)!

By: DaVince

DaVince — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:18:39 +0000

@Sreejith K: a few good reasons to use SMPlayer instead of MPlayer would be:
- When MPlayer crashes, you don’t lose your interface. SMPlayer just lets you know MPlayer crashed, and then you can press ‘Play’ to actually resume from where you left off.
- It’s a nicer interface that integrates better with your desktop, and the interface isn’t as buggy/crashy as I have always experience.

Next to this stability, you don’t lose speed, and you don’t lose features. SMPlayer is the perfect layer on top of MPlayer.

By: epi

epi — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:01:19 +0000

I have some issues with movie playback in totem, then I installed vlc, and when I tried to start it, vlc can not be started as root because of security reasons, but i really don’t care about any security reason while playing movie, what i am trying to say is >>> don’t use idiotic players <<>> WOW GREAT PERFORMANCE <<< its starts so f…..g fast, faster then anything, no image flickering, just …. NOTHING BUT PERFORMANCE !!!
I recommend SMPlayer to everyone, Its just great !!!

By: Sreejith K

Sreejith K — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:12:22 +0000

My favourite player is MPlayer and I’m able to do almost all the things that can be done with a video player. It supports all types of codecs and subtitles. From my point of view Mplayer is the only player capable of handling/loading all the subtitle formats available. There are some problems with Totem/vlc not loading certain subtitles (I know this because I see a lot of movies on my Linux Box). The only problem so far I know about MPlayer is that when you change the aspect ratio during playing videos the play restarts from begining. I don’t know why this happens. Is this a problem with SMPlayer also ? And I bet Mplayer is the only player that starts faster than any other players of its kind. I’ve never tried the SMplayer front-end for Mplayer, still using default Mplayer GUI. i’ll make a try

Nice to have such a post Binny………

By: caos30

caos30 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:19:23 +0000

I’ve installed in my Ubuntu 64 and in my AspireOne with Linpus, and it function perfectly. Thanks man!!! I like it!

By: caos30

caos30 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:00:13 +0000

Mmmm… it sounds like BSplayer for Windows. BSPlayer is almost the only application that i need but not have in Linux. And this SMPlayer seems to be at the same level of power and customizatibility than BSPlayer

By: marius

marius — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:39:16 +0000

I never heard of it. I will try it right now. I’m using VLC, but who knows …