Decided to give SMP a try, Dl'd portable ver, loaded it up told it to open a video, and straight out of the gate it decided to crash.
C:/Users/*************/Downloads/smplayer-portable-0.8.0/mplayer/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -msglevel demux=6 -slave -vo direct3d, -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -nodr -double -wid 1772212 -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles C:/Users/**********/Downloads/smplayer-portable-0.8.0/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -nocache -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 -nofontconfig C:/Users/************/Downloads/Safe House/Safe House (2012).mkv
MPlayer Redxii-SVN-r34835-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Setting process priority: abovenormal
192 audio & 399 video codecs
Cannot load bitmap font 'Arial'.
c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.
Playing C:/Users/***************/Downloads/Safe House/Safe House (2012).mkv.
libavformat version 54.2.100 (internal)
Configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
libavformat file format detected.
ID_CHAPTER_ID=0
ID_CHAPTER_0_START=97
ID_CHAPTER_0_END=6894580
ID_CHAPTER_0_NAME=00:00:00.097
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
ID_AID_0_NAME=Metka @ HD-BB.org
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng, Metka @ HD-BB.org
VIDEO: [H264] 852x352 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
creation_time: 2012-05-30 20:20:43
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=creation_time
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=2012-05-30 20:20:43
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
Load subtitles in C:/Users/David Vallier/Downloads/Safe House/
ID_FILE_SUB_ID=0
ID_FILE_SUB_FILENAME=C:/Users/**********/Downloads/Safe House/Safe House (2012).srt
SUB: Added subtitle file (1): C:/Users/*********/Downloads/Safe House/Safe House (2012).srt
ID_FILENAME=C:/Users/***********/Downloads/Safe House/Safe House (2012).mkv
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=852
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=352
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.4205
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=6894.58
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=1
Opening video filter: [ass auto=1]
[ass] auto-open
Opening video filter: [screenshot]