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Softonic Rating:
Very good810
License:
Free
Added:
June 5, 2007
Updated:
June 17, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
11.1 MB
Downloads:
107,459
Nick Mead

“Multiformat video player that doesn't need codecs”

by Nick Mead

One of the most frustrating things about video playback is when you don't have the right codecs installed.

SMPlayer attempts to do away with this problem completely by attempting to play videos regardless of the codecs they need. It does this by using the MPlayer engine which the developers claim can play almost all video formats. In reality, this is not always the case. What you may find is that if you're trying to play a WMV file protected by DRM for example, you will see snippets of the film but not the whole thing. However, the player has many other great features that make it an interesting proposition. One of the most useful is the way it remembers most of the settings of files that you play a bit like a DVD Player. If you turn off a film because you're a bit tired, when you open it later, it will start from exactly the same point where you left it with all the original settings including subtitles and audio. One other area where the player excels is in subtitling. SMPlayer allows you to choose subtitles in a variety of formats allowing you to choose the font, size, and even colors.

There are many other great aspects to SMPlayer - audio track switching, mouse scrolling and multiple speed playback - that on top of it's codec free playback, make it an excellent choice.

Languages:

English

SMPlayer supports the following formats:

AVI, MKV, OGM, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, ASF, MOV, WMV, MP3, Ogg, DVD, Internet streams

OS requirements for SMPlayer:

  • OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP
Pros
  • Not restricted by codecs
  • Resumes play from stopping point
  • Lot of subtitle control
Cons
  • Doesn't play some codec protected media properly
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From the publisher of SMPlayer

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.

One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer is that it's able to remember the settings for each of the files you play with it. So if you start watching a movie but you have to leave later on, don't worry: when you open that movie again SMPlayer will resume it at the same point you left it, and with the same settings regarding audio track, subtitles, volume and more.

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Softonic Rating:Very good
9/10

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20 ratings
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  • Currently 9/10.
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