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Watch almost any video with SMPlayer
There are a lot of useful media players out there for handling pretty much any video format you can throw at them. VLC is a pretty nifty all-in-one solution, as is Media Player Classic.Martin over at gHacks just turned us onto another powerful media player, SMPlayer. It's a front-end for MPlayer, and comes in Linux and Windows flavors. There's also support for a whole slew of languages.
The best thing about SMPlayer is that it just works out of the box. You don't need to install any additional codecs, and it will handle everything from Quicktime movies to Windows Media Video. Of course it has no problem with DivX, XviD, and other MPEG-1/2/4 varieties. It does not appear to support Real Media files.
Is SMPlayer a VLC killer? It's hard to say. But it does have a clean, simple interface that makes it pretty attractive if you find the bells and whistles of VLC a bit confusing.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentscadmlSep 14th 2007 7:04PM
In my opinion mplayer already blows away vlc, just look at its options, http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html no other player i know is as flexable or consumes so little resources. The only thing missing is its lack of a decent gui, smplayer looks like a step in the right direction.
StephenSep 14th 2007 10:36PM
Wow!
I've been looking for ages for a good .flv player and this is by far the best I've seen.
Most, including vlc, can't seek in .flv files - If you try to skip forward it just shuts down. The only other one I've found that can seek is nFLVPlayer and it's horrible.
This is so quick and smooth with .flvs
edricSep 15th 2007 7:58AM
in linux, you can play rmvb with smplayer (or better said, with mplayer) if u placed the needed codec file in it..
i wonder if it can be done the same way on windows box. but i think it is positive
danielSep 15th 2007 8:02AM
You may also want to look at rulesPlayer which has the exact same concept and is pretty stable. The coolness factor is very high because its programmed in D :). Think C++ done right (modules instead of those awfull preprocessor macros for example, and three different kinds of const). http://www.dsource.org/projects/rulesplayer/wiki/screenshots_home
avicSep 17th 2007 5:54AM
You may want to try these other two players. They are both much better than VLC or SMPlayer, both have internal codecs, have lots of additional features and are skinnable:
KMPlayer: http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63
or GOMplayer: http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
koanSep 15th 2007 9:06AM
I use GOM Player (http://www.gomplayer.com/) nicely done, fast and free.
MilanNov 30th 2007 9:41AM
Well, all of you gomplayer fans should take a look at this page http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html
At the bottom where are the blacklisted mplayer projects you should find a link to your gomplayer... ;)
MikeSep 15th 2007 2:55PM
rulesPlayer is better imo, it has a clean interface and its easier to use :
http://rulesplayer.altervista.org/
CoffeeDazeSep 15th 2007 11:18PM
I downloaded this today and threw as many different videos I could think of at it. It ran them all smoothly (which I couldn't say for VLC)
JazzaSep 16th 2007 8:36AM
I prefer GOM - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html as opposed to VLC now. It is a very nice all in one player which looks good and feels nice.
lijianSep 17th 2007 8:41PM
tai hao le!太好了
SimoNov 26th 2007 12:30PM
I will try