SMPlayer is a Qt-based graphical media player that provides a convenient interface to MPlayer and mpv. It exposes the capabilities of those playback engines through menus, dialogs and familiar desktop controls instead of requiring users to remember command-line options.
A particularly useful part of SMPlayer is its per-file state handling. It can remember where playback stopped together with settings such as the selected audio track, subtitle track and volume, making it well suited to films, lectures and long-form video watched over several sessions.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides detailed preferences for controlling playback-engine behaviour and passing advanced options to MPlayer or mpv.
- Provides configurable audio and video filters, including deinterlacing, denoising, post-processing and equalisation controls.
- Adjusts playback speed together with independent audio and subtitle delay controls for synchronisation.
- Offers playlist management with repeat, shuffle and queue-based playback.
- Searches for and downloads subtitles, while also providing detailed subtitle font, colour and positioning controls.
- Includes video preview and thumbnail-generation tools for quickly inspecting media content.
- Supports online video playback and can hand suitable network media to the configured playback engine.
- Provides bookmarks, mouse gestures, configurable shortcuts and global multimedia-key integration.
- Includes MPRIS integration for desktop media controls and compatible external controllers.
- Offers skins, icon themes and several interface layouts for users who want to alter the player’s appearance.
- Can send compatible media to Chromecast devices from within the application.
Website: github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer
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Developer: Ricardo Villalba
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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Documents links to an unrelated open-source project, DVDStyler. SMPlayer source code is hosted on github.
Thanks Tarek, link corrected.