SMPlayer Support Forum

I've been busy some time with other stuff but now I hope development in smplayer will be resumed soon.

I'm very happy to hear that development will resume.

With Mplayer2's new features now available, these are exciting times for mplayer!

- Ordered Chapters
--- now work well

- While paused
--- Settings can be applied
--- Video can be navigated forward or backward

Smplayer is already working great with these features, but a resumption of development is still great news!
Keep up the great work rvm!

And don't forget frame-exact seeking which is not limited to keyframes - an often requested feature on the SMPlayer forums. I already relayed this over a year ago to rvm.

Well, I've been testing Sherpya's MPlayer builds and have problems mostly with multithreading beyond r33126 that don't seem to occur when using it in command line even with the same options. Not sure what the issue is there. I only found out that 'Draw video using slices' doesn't mix with MT and certain formats.

I wonder if anyone has checked out this fork of SMPlayer.

http://www.umplayer.com/

I've built a couple sets of deb packages--the minimum version of QT 4 required is 4.6.

Since commits to their svn repo have died since August, I wonder if the projects could be merged.

Yeah, I second that. While Umplayer is largely a Smplayer derivative, it has some nice new features such as good support for mplayer2 and (apparently) vdpau (tried using Smplayer and Umplayer with the same mplayer2 backend. Smplayer was installed from Ubuntu's repository) and Youtube viewer. It also looks very modern and polished. For the period of time when Smplayer seems to have stopped developing I have switched to Umplayer as my main mplayer frontend, it would be nice if some of the enhancements can be incorporated back into upstream if feasible.

As for the QT requirement, I think most recent Linux distros would be more than adequate. Even Ubuntu 10.04 comes with qt4.6.3 and can be updated to qt7 by adding the kde backport repo. I think it must have made it into even Debian stable by now.

I like the possibility to play youtube videos in umplayer. Maybe I'll add it to smplayer.

What's up with this thing:

https://github.com/lachs0r/SMPlayer2

Calls itself "SMPlayer2" and says it's targeted at mplayer2 users. I noticed it because my Linux distro now includes this fork in the default repo.