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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: March 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 69,113
- Downloads last week: 40
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 30 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
On the video-player spectrum, SMPlayer is somewhere between the full-bodied Miro and the super-lightweight VLC Player. The freeware player, intended to be a front-end for MPlayer, supports an impressive list of features and options.
The list of supported formats encompasses both major audio and video codecs and does a good job of trying to differentiate itself from the competition. One of the best features is that the player will remember your settings per video, so if you quit the app in the middle of playing, it'll restart it with the exact same settings as before. Subtitles are fully customizable, including color, font, and size, and it can stream in content from the Internet. The app also works on both Windows and Linux, and it's supported in more than 20 languages. There's also a karaoke filter, so you can remove the audio track.
As you might expect, the install file is quite large at 17MB, and it takes up a fair bit of RAM. We experienced no stability issues with the program, so we're quite comfortable in recommending it as a strong secondary player or even a primary, if one of its more esoteric features is just what you need.
Publisher's description
From rvm :SMPlayer, a new multimedia player, which I'm sure you're going to love. SMPlayer uses the award-winning MPlayer as engine, so it's able to play the most known video & audio formats without the need of external codecs: avi, mkv, ogm, mpeg, vob, 3gp, asf, mov, wmv, mp3, ogg. You can also play DVD discs and Internet streams. Special care have been taken with subtitles. It supports srt, sub, ssa, embedded subtitles in Matroska files, DVD subtitles. SMPlayer subtitles can be very nice, you can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave. Don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, and volume.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: smplayer 0.2
Pros: I've been testing this application for a little while.
It plays everything. I tried several formats and smplayer has played perfectly. And it's true that it doesn't need any codecs, in fact in its installation folder there aren't any. Other applications which also claim not to need codecs, in fact what they do is to install a lot of codecs, some of them from third parties.
One thing I liked a lot is that you can configure the subtitles. It's possible to select color, size, you can move them over the screen.
Amazing is the possibility to restore a video with all previous options.
Usage and configuration are very easy. There are not much options in the menus, there are the most usual ones.
Cons: This program is not very good for playing dvds. There is no dvd menu. You have to select the audio and subtitle from the application menus.
On the other hand there's the possibility to display the dvd subtitles on black borders. This is something hard to find in other players.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: smplayer 0.2
Pros: There is only one thing I gotta hand this guy; "he tried his best" But Failed miserably
Cons: Nothing works on this thing
Music: you can only play one file at a time, unless you create play list first.
Video, I was able to open only one video out of 4, "Something is gotta give" it looked horrible, and it's brand new, I couldn't find anything in this program to help me adjust it.
You have no Menu button only a play list button; and you have to load up the video files but you can't view them and at the end with no menu button I couldn't change the audio language or anything at all for that matter, it only played the movie in French with English subtitles, and that's after almost 2 long A?$ minutes of waiting for it to kick in.
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Version: smplayer 0.2
Cons: This is the umpteenth time that Download.com flag a program as running on Win 95 while it's not true. QTCore4.dll is linked to the missing export KERNEL32.DLL; moreover the download from CNET was impossible and I had to find sourceforge mirrors. And CNET please notice that the current version of smplayer is 0.5.5 NOT 0.2. I tried and installed both always with the same result described above. Anyone knows a player/converter that reads 3gp files on Windows 95B? thanks!
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