FAQ

Sometimes I read SMPlayer, others MPlayer, what are they? are they the same?

No, they are two different applications. MPlayer is a multimedia player developed initially for linux and then ported to other OS. It's very good, it plays almost every everything, and it has for instance a lot of filters and so on. But most users may find it hard to use it.

Fortunately MPlayer can work together with another application (the video window can be embedded in the other application GUI, it obeys commands sent by the application).

So SMPlayer is just a front-end which uses MPlayer to actually play the videos. SMPlayer is the window you see, the menus, the preferences dialog... (along with other things you don't see, like functions to control MPlayer). But SMPlayer knows nothing about playing files. It doesn't even know what a codec is. MPlayer on the other hand, opens the files, decodes them, displays the video and plays the audio. Subtitles are also read, parsed and displayed on screen by MPlayer

Vanem versioon: smplayer-portable-0.6.10.zip