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Sometimes when watching a video in full screen smplayer pretty much freezes. I can't use alt-tab to change to other windows or press the windows key to bring up the start menu. Pressing f does nothing. Today I had to do a hard shutdown to get out of it. This is an intermittent problem. I'm using Version: 0.7.1. The video that froze had these properties:

Resolution
640 x 480
Aspect ratio
1.33333
Format
H264
Bitrate
9937 kbps
Frames per second
30.000
Selected codec
ffh264

Any idea whats causing this problem? Thanks

Post is kinda old. By now, you should be using SMP 0.8 - may / may not fix the problem.
In full screen, you can try Esc - that also takes it out of full screen for me, but hitting 'F' does too.