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SMPlayer automatically starts (un-pauses) playback just after after resume from hibernation.

How to reproduce:
Open media in SMPlayer, e.g. a movie.
Pause it.
Hibernate PC
Resume from hibernation

What happens:
All SMPlayer instances start to play the media.

What is expected:
All SMPlayer instances keep the pause state if they were paused during hibernation.

NOTE: The bug exists for several years, I found it to be described here:


I have the same issue with up to date SMPlayer now on Kubuntu with usual hibernation.

Will be happy for any information on this issue or possible workaround.
I made a small donation hoping to draw additional attention to this issue as it's a bit annoying for people who use hibernation on GNU+Linux.

I've just tested on Manjaro KDE running in Virtualbox and playback is still paused after resuming from hibernation.
I can't test on Ubuntu because the machine never wakes up from hibernation

Thank you rvm for information and for free/libre SMPlayer, I'll look into the issue deeply and will provide additional information if I have any. Maybe there is a way to find out how the player was unpaused (like a media play button registered or something).

You can send the smplayer log (after this problem happens).

Seems to be solved, not facing it anymore.