SMPlayer Support Forum

I am running the latest version of smtube and smplayer that are available on Arch, and have the latest youtube code. When I try to play a youtube video, the video loads completely, but does not play. I can manually scroll to any point in the video and it will show the still frame, but the play button is greyed out like it is playing. No amount of stopping/pausing/playing gets the video to play. Local videos seem to play just fine.

Can you send the mpv/mplayer log? (menu View)

Does it work if you select another video output or audio output in preferences -> general -> video, audio?

Changing the audio output solved it. I tried the video before, but didn't think audio would affect playback. Had to change it to null, because as it happens I do not have a sound device installed on the vm( i'm assuming that's why null worked anyway.)

Thank you very much for you help!