You can also set preferences for font, size and colors for the subtitles. It has built-in support for SRT, SUB, SSA, embedded subtitles in Matroska files and DVD subtitles. Subtitles is another area where SMPlayer excels. This is very handy when watching long movies. This means I never have to refiddle with playback position, subtitles settings, audio track, filters, volume or equalizer settings. SMPlayer keeps track of my preferences for every file played. I especially like being able to close the player and return to it later without having to again cue the location. I have yet to see a file format that SMPlayer could not play without needing external codecs installed. Playback ExcellenceĪside from its packed menus filled with choices, one of SMPlayer’s biggest strengths is its ability to handle a large inventory of video and audio file formats. Its default look is clearly Qt theme-wise. For instance, the preprocessor option increases the image quality of a video while playing it. This provides access to all of the functions supported by Mplayer. SMPlayer as just a front-end uses MPlayer to play the videos and other media files. The same source code can be compiled on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Based on Qt, SMPlayer uses a C++ library that allows cross-platform development. MPlayer is a multimedia player developed initially for Linux and then ported to other OSes. But SMPlayer’s GUI (Graphical User Interface) gives you hands-on control of many more playback features, especially videos. This means SMPlayer gives you all of Mplayer’s features in a simple user interface. Being a front-end app does not make SMPLayer the same as MPlayer. SMPlayer is a front end for one of Linux’s classic media apps, Mplayer. But despite the author’s detailed product description, you cannot easily play DVD and CD discs from the optical drive. These include: AVI, MKV, OGM, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, ASF, MOV, WMV, MP3 and OGG.
It plays the most known video and audio formats without requiring external codecs.
SMPlayer is a flexible multimedia player. SMPlayer offers more features and preferences tweaking than any other meida player available for the Linux desktop. Were it not for this snag, I would rank SMPlayer with my other two favorite media players - VLC Media Player and Banshee. The problem is this app’s inability to read directories from CD/DVD music collections inserted in the optical drive. It is more of an inconvenience than an all-out reason to reject using SMPlayer completely. Unfortunately, this bug of sorts is something its developer Ricardo Villalba has yet to resolve in the latest release, version 0.7.0.
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