Ubuntu problem playing another video when one is already pla

[asif-np]

[rvm]

Well, I'm puzzled. What you expect is actually the actual behaviour, and I can't reproduce your problem in my system.
Can you send the smplayer log (menu View) after trying to playing the second video?

[asif-np]

[rvm]

It looks like you're actually using the option to append a video to the playlist instead of just playing it. Are you using a package provided by a distro? Maybe they changed something, this is not the intended behavior.

[asif-np]

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and installed from Ubuntu Software . Can i do anything about this?

[rvm]

Could you try to install smplayer from my PPA?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smplayer smplayer-themes

[asif-np]

Still same problem
After installing from the repo, could not play video at all, error "MPlayer/Mpv failed to start. Please check the Mplayer/Mpv path in prederence." In preference i found path 'usr/bin/mpv' but it does not exists. Rather 'usr/bin/mplayer' exists. so i changed the path and was able to play video. But the initial problem remains

[rvm]

That's strange because I think smplayer doesn't even have the message " 'current video title' is ready ".
I don't have Ubuntu 18.04 but I think I can test in Ubuntu 20.04 to see if the problem happens there too.

[asif-np]

I am really sorry, the problem is open with is set to Enque in Smplayer instead of just Smplayer.
Now i changed to Smplayer and its working properly. Thanks for your efforts.

[rvm]

Ok, I'm glad you fixed it

I think the "smplayer is ready" message comes from the desktop manager when smplayer tries to raise the window to the foreground.