The Windows installer includes mpv now so that you can switch between both engines right away.The player plays nearly any video or audio format you throw at it out of the box, and supports many other features that provide you with options to change playback in one way or another, or use extra features like the ones mentioned previously in the review.
It is open source, and on Windows available as a portable version. SMPlayer is a powerful media player for the Windows operating system and Linux. In addition, I like the YouTube player it ships with, and that it remembers the playback position so that you start there if you reload the video at a later point in time.
I use the media player as a secondary player on Windows machines - the first is VLC Media Player - as it players some formats, some large WMV files for instance, better than VLC. Basically, what you get is a search component that returns videos hosted on YouTube, and an option to play these videos using SMPlayer.
You need to download the component separately but it integrates with SMPlayer afterwards. All options are listed in the video menu, and accessible from the right-click menu and keyboard shortcuts. Other features include filters, a mirror mode, Stereo 3D filter, and a compact mode. You may zoom in and out, change aspect ratio or size of the window, or rotate the screen.
SMPlayer offers plenty of options when it comes to manipulation of the play area. This can be useful to speed up or slow down playback of video or audio files. You can change the playback speed of media using the Play > Speed menu or by using shortcuts.
Set two markers at different positions of a video, and enable repeat, to play this part over and over again without having to play the whole movie or seeking to the right position all the time. You have playback controls, can jump to any part of a video right away, or switch between audio tracks and subtitles easily.īut there is functionality that is less common, and it makes sense to look at it more closely. The media player works for the most part just like any other. There is an advanced section, and preferences to define updates and network usage. SMPlayer maps different functions to the mouse wheel by default which is different from VLC and many other players which map the volume to the mouse wheel instead. Keyboard and mouse displays shortcuts, lets you edit shortcuts, and define mouse and mouse wheel functions.
Other options there include whether you want the player window to be resized automatically based on the resolution of the video, seeking jumps, and how many recent files and urls you want the player to remember.