SMPlayer Support Forum

There is an SMPlayer fork, UMPlayer:

http://www.umplayer.com/

I wonder if SMPlayer can borrow some of the new features from it. Personally, I like some of their skins.

I'd rather not see smplayer plagued with useless features and becoming bloated because of it.

It looks interesting, but I can't compile it with Qt 4.3.4. I guess it requires one of the latest versions of Qt.

It fails to compile with Qt 4.5.1 too.

It would be nice if the developers didn't simply fork SMPlayer but also contributed patches upstream.

Dependencies are not as big a deal when compiled for Windows... the dlls for Qt are included with SMPlayer and only affect SMPlayer. I have quite a few other programs commercial and open that also use Qt but they use their own Qt dlls as well.

Linux is a whole other issue, though. I understand where RVM is coming from, I've used Linux and libraries are a constant moving target, and frankly having to compile anything in Linux is a big pain in the ass and the ever updating libraries break compatibility with older programs that aren't compiled against the new libraries.

That happens only if you use static distros like Ubuntu (I'm guessing that that's what you're using).

On the other hand, there are some serious distros out there, that are rolling-release, continuously updating, like Archlinux, for example.