SMPlayer - Awesome MPlayer Frontend

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MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

SMPlayer Features

• It remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave.
• Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
• Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
• Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
• Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
• Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X… and even in slow motion.
• Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise… and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
• Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
• Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
• Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
• Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
• Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into Spanish, German, Slovak, Italian, French, Simplified-Chinese, Russian and Hungarian.
• It’s multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows and Linux.
• SMPlayer is under the GPL license.

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Install SMPlayer in Ubuntu

First you need to download the .deb package from here Click Here for .dep package or use this code

wget [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer_0.5.0_i386.deb[/url]

Install .deb package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i smplayer_0.5.0_i386.deb

This will complete the installation.

If you want to open SMPlayer go to Application—>Sound&Video—>SMPlayer

Home Page : smplayer.sourceforge.net

 

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SMPlayer is a new multimedia player. It 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, volume...

Other additional interesting features:

* Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
* Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
* Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
* Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
* Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
* Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
* Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
* Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
* Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
* Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
* Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
* It's multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows and Linux.
* Free. Totally free. No shareware, no adware, no spyware... Free and opensource. The source code of SMPlayer is available. You can download it, compile it, modify it... SMPlayer is under the GPL license.

An this is just the beginning. In the future SMPlayer will have features hardly available in other players. But be patience. Development of SMPlayer started just a very few months ago. SMPlayer is alpha software. There are still some basic features missing, like a bookmark. It also can contain bugs. But I hope is stable enough for daily use. Already implemented features should work. But if you find a bug report it!

SMPlayer 0.5.0 release notes
Most important changes:

* New GUI. Now there are toolbars, the control at the bottom is different (and it changes if the window is made smaller), the icons can be changed (several icon themes are available). In fullscreen mode the floating control that appears when you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen is new too and this time the video doesn't resize when it shows.
* Configurable key shortcuts. A shortcut editor has been added, it's located at "Preferences->Mouse & keyboard". Please read Configurable_shortcuts.txt.
* Support for VCD. Now you can also play VCD discs. (This feature doesn't work on Windows, as currently MPlayer on Windows has no support for VCD yet)
* System tray icon. Now it's possible to leave SMPlayer running in the system tray. This feature requires Qt 4.2. It works in Linux (all window managers that implement the freedesktop.org system tray specification, including recent versions of KDE and GNOME) and Windows. It's also possible to have this feature with Qt 3, if SMPlayer is compiled with KDE support. By the way...
* Added support for KDE 3. Optionally SMPlayer can be compiled with KDE support. It will use the KDE open dialogs, and there will be an option to dock the application in the system tray.
* Added some new functions, like pan&scan, stay on top, set the size of the window...
* Improved support for subtitles. For instance, now you can load a idx/sub file and you'll be able to select among all languages that the file provides. You can have a mkv file with embedded subtitles, load an idx/sub file (or srt, sub...) and all subtitles will be available.
* New translations. SMPlayer 0.5.0 is translated (totally or partially) to the following languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Simplified-Chinese and Traditional Chinese. By the way, now it's possible to change the language at run-time.

One of the best gui's for Mplayer i have come across.

Source: SMPlayer

Also there is one more GUI which i like for Mplayer -> MPF
Link: MPF Homepage