Smplayer is now available from the Livna repo !!

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Wayne

I skipped installing that! It was a bit of a surprise seeing something new wanting to replace mplayer-plugin. I don't like surprises. I know mplayer-plugin works and I know nothing about this replacement and until I do I'm not touching it...

Wayne

You have confused gecko-mediaplayer ( mplayerplug-in replacement ) with smplayer ( smplayer is just a frontend for mplayer )

[root@localhost leigh]# yum info smplayer

Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
Name       : smplayer
Arch       : x86_64
Version    : 0.6.0
Release    : 0.3.rc2.lvn8
Size       : 4.0 M
Repo       : installed
Summary    : A graphical frontend for mplayer
URL        : http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/linux/
License    : GPLv2+
Description: 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. One of the main
           : features is the ability to remember the state of a played file, so
           : when you play it later it will resume at the same point and with
           : the same settings. smplayer is developed with the Qt toolkit, so
           : it's multi-platform.

[root@localhost leigh]#

Nope, you've misread what I was writing about. I was replying to gadgetwiz's side note about gecko media player not SMPlayer, which I installed after finding out about in in this thread

Wayne

[adrianx]

What is available from where??

Thanks Leigh, I've installed it and it looks great!

[rvm]

Originally Posted by SGSeries2

Just FYI for anyone that's interested. These two versions of smplayer were driving me insane trying to get them to work properly, but an older version, 0.5.21, worked fine...

I couldn't get any sound unless I specified a demuxer, and even after I specified a demuxer, ASS subtitles wouldn't display properly. (They would default to the font and color you specify in the preferences, and not how they're originally encoded.)

After looking at the logs of the one that worked and ones that didn't work, I saw slight variances. I noticed that the newer versions were trying to use an audio id of 1, but no such audio stream existed. This apparently can't be changed to 0 in the gui, so I added an additional mplayer option in the advance section:

-aid 0

(This would take precedence over the previous aid option smplayer put in there.)

Since then, I don't have to specify a demuxer, and ASS subtitles for some reason show up correctly. Strange, but true.

SMPlayer uses the -aid option if it already has info about the file (audio, subtitle tracks...), which happens if the file has been played before.

If for some reason that info is wrong (maybe because you updated mplayer and now it uses a different demuxer, or just simply because smplayer went crazy) there are two ways to fix it:

1) delete the file with the info about played files (~/.smplayer/smplayer_files.ini)
2) disable the option to remember the settings of files in preferences.

[p0r4]

Thank you -very- much. This beautiful piece of software just replaced VLC on my system... ahh the design, the options and such elegant handling of subtitles and codecs.... I adore it...