SMPlayer Support Forum

Hi there people,
I just had an issue under Ubuntu Linux 17.10 (Gnome Wayland) with the video playing outside of the main smplayer window. I am with Version: 17.7.0 (Revision 8599) of SMPlayer.

While i found out that there is an option "Mplayer/mpv in own window" under program settings, it was already unchecked. But the video still played in an own window instance.

To fix this i changed General->Video->Output Driver->"x11 (slow)" in the user settings. Now the video plays in the main player window

It seems to be a problem of Wayland.

Hi guys, sorry to bump this old thread but its been a few years, Wayland is soon becoming the default display server on some distros

can you please add full wayland support or an easy setting/detection rule so SMPlayer works?

I've created a ticket

https://sourceforge.net/p/smplayer/feat ... uests/766/

I'd like to fix it but I'm afraid I don't know how. My system doesn' use Wayland, so I can't test.
Some users told me that the problem was fixed by using xv as video output, can you test if it works for you?

hey thanks for the reply

xv output works actually, any disadvantage using this?

could you get smplayer to check if Wayland is in use then switch to xv?

Well, I guess I can try to detect if Wayland is used and in that case use xv as the default video output.

I've just added the check in svn 9429.

thanks heaps!

I've been using smplayer with xv to watch some shows and no major issues, although the screensaver activated while watching which was odd

I've found that xv output can't handle high-bitrate files, the video is choppy. I've gone back to X11 for now.

Hello,
i have the same issue.
Many distros switch to Wayland as default in the future.
MPV works fine with Wayland. SMPlayer is using MPV and but it showed the wrong position of video outside.
I tried to switch to xv in the setting of SMPlayer that works fine with Wayland.

Sorry for my bad English.
Thanks !