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SMPlayer Changelog

What's new in SMPlayer 19.10.2

Nov 13, 2019
  • Fix building the package on 32-bit with GCC 9.2.0.

New in SMPlayer 19.10.0 (Oct 31, 2019)

  • Fix for YouTube.
  • Fix control when using mpv 0.30.

New in SMPlayer 18.5.0 (May 24, 2018)

  • Now the YouTube live streams work on Windows as well.
  • (Windows) A problem which might prevent SMPlayer to open filenames with unicode characters has been fixed.
  • Fix: the cursor keys should now work in the playlist.
  • Now it's possible to select which multimedia keys should be used as global shortcuts (Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse).
  • (Windows) It seems on some systems the multimedia key events are sent twice, making some keys (like volume mute or play/pause) almost unusable. This version tries to detect it and prevent it.
  • 'opus' has been added to to the list of audio extensions.

New in SMPlayer 18.4.0 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Bugfix: the time displayed by a tooltip when the mouse is over the seekbar is now much more accurate.
  • There's now an option in Preferences -> Advanced to set the position of the OSD bar.
  • Now it's possible to turn off the use of the system native file dialog in Preferences -> Interface.

New in SMPlayer 18.2.0 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Now it's possible to use a priority list of preferred languages for the audio and subtitles.
  • Now there's support for YouTube playlists. In the playlist window, click in the Load/save icon, select Load playlist from URL and paste the URL of the YouTube playlist.

New in SMPlayer 17.10.2 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • New option in Preferences -> Network to select the preferred quality for streaming sites such as DailyMotion, Vimeo and so on (all those which are handled by youtube-dl).
  • The audio equalizer is now disabled by default on Linux to prevent a no sound problem for users with old versions of mpv.
  • Fix some problems with the letterbox filter (the 'add black borders' option).
  • The HDPI support is now also enabled on the portable package for Windows.
  • Fix: now the time is correctly displayed in the thumbnail generator pictures when SMPlayer is built with Qt 5.

New in SMPlayer 17.9.0 (Sep 4, 2017)

  • Now it's possible to the search for subtitles using the filename instead of a hash.
  • Fix for the OSD when using SMPlayer with mpv 0.26.

New in SMPlayer 17.4.2 (Apr 25, 2017)

  • New option (menu View -> OSD) to display the times with milliseconds.
  • New fix for the thumbnail generator that works also with older versions of mpv.
  • Bugfix: the position of the video is remembered when it's opened by drag & drop.
  • The Windows installer won't install mpv on Windows XP since mpv is not longer compatible with Windows XP.
  • New option to use the mplayer ffhevcvdpau decoder (Linux only).
  • Avoid some crashes from mpv.

New in SMPlayer 17.1.0 (Jan 23, 2017)

  • Experimental Chromecast support.

New in SMPlayer 16.11.0 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Media info in the OSD:
  • There’s the new option ‘Show info on OSD’ in View -> OSD (shortcut Shift + I). It displays info about the current media (resolution, bitrate…) on the OSD. Press “Shift + I” (or just “I”) to turn it off.
  • New configuration options for the playlist:
  • There are available more options in Preferences -> Playlist to better control the behaviour of the playlist. Some of the new options will allow the playlist to be more suitable to store bookmarks (turn off the options “start playback after loading the playlist” and “play next file automatically”). The current favourites menu in SMPlayer is not designed to handle many items, however the playlist can support without problem hundreds and even thousands of items, so I think for bookmarks with a lot of items it’s better to use the playlist.
  • Another change in the playlist, now the load/save buttons are grouped together in a popup menu.

New in SMPlayer 16.6.0 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • Support for 2 in 1 computers with touch screens:
  • SMPlayer includes now a 'tablet mode', available in the menu Options. When the option is turned on it makes some changes in the interface so that it would be easier to control SMPlayer by touching the screen.
  • the size of windows and fonts are increased
  • sliding vertically in the video changes the volume, sliding horizontally seeks in the video
  • tapping while in fullscreen displays the floating control
  • When the user changes the tablet mode in the Windows 10 action center, SMPlayer will detect it and ask if it should switch to the SMPlayer's tablet mode as well.
  • Send video to an external screen:
  • Now it's possible to send the video to a second screen connected to the computer, while controlling the application in the computer's screen.
  • There's a new option in the menu Video: send video to screen. It shows a submenu with all connected screens.
  • One of the screens is labeled as 'primary screen', which is the computer's screen. If you send the video to another screen the video will be displayed on that screen in fullscreen mode. The SMPlayer interface will remain in the computer's screen where you can control the video (seek, change volume, subtitles, playlist, open another video, etc.) while the video is displayed on the second screen. If you send the video to the primary screen the video will be re-attached to the SMPlayer window.
  • Note this feature requires the desktop to be set as 'extended'.
  • Support for high DPI screens:
  • On high DPI (dots per inch) screens SMPlayer looked very tiny. Now the interface is automatically scaled so it looks correctly. There are also settings in Preferences -> Interface -> High DPI where you can adjust manually the scale factor or turn off this feature.
  • Global shortcuts:
  • Now it's possible to use the media keys (play/pause, stop, volume+/-, etc.) as global shortcuts. That means that those keys will work even when SMPlayer is in the background. You can activate this option in Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse.
  • Settings are remembered for online streams too:
  • This means that, for example, SMPlayer can resume playback or set bookmarks on YouTube videos or other online streams (as long as they are seekable).
  • Other changes in SMPlayer 16.6:
  • New themes: Masalla, Papirus and PapirusDark.
  • Built by default with Qt 5.

New in SMPlayer 16.1.0 (Jan 17, 2016)

  • Fix for YouTube.
  • The screenshots work again with older versions of MPlayer/mpv.
  • Possibility to add bookmarks (menu Browse), which allows to mark your favorite parts of the video for a quick access.
  • New option 'Prevent window to get outside of screen' in Preferences -> Interface.

New in SMPlayer 15.9.0 (Sep 30, 2015)

  • Support for the 3D stereo filter.
  • We added support for mpv, which is a player based on mplayer with new features and bug fixes.
  • Now it's possible to select a secondary subtitle track which is displayed on top of the screen (mpv only).
  • New option to set a template for screenshots (mpv only).
  • Now it's possible to play videos from streaming sites (besides Youtube) like DailyMotion, Vimeo, Vevo and many more (mpv only).
  • Option to step back one frame (mpv only).
  • The Windows installer now allows to choose the playback engine to install: mplayer or mpv.
  • Better support for YouTube (VEVO videos).
  • Possibility to set a proxy.
  • New action (assigned by default to key "I") shows the current playback time, total time and percentage, for 2 seconds on the OSD.
  • Add the possibility to use the mouse buttons for "next chapter" and "previous chapter".
  • New option to delete a file in the playlist from the filesystem.
  • Support for MPRIS2.
  • Possibility to compile SMPlayer without MPlayer or mpv support.
  • The new H2O theme is now the default theme.

New in SMPlayer 14.9.0 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • Fix for Youtube.
  • New option to shut down the computer when playback has finished.
  • The themes and skin icons are loaded from resource files (*.rcc).
  • New fix for searching subtitles from opensubtitles.org that should return more results.

New in SMPlayer 14.3.0 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • The control for fullscreen mode has been rewritten and improved. Now it is displayed over the video.
  • (Windows) New option in Preferences -> Subtitles to enable or disable the use of the Windows font directory. Disabling this option prevents the annoying font scanning.
  • Some presets have been added to the audio equalizer.
  • (Experimental) Possibility to play (non-protected) blu-ray discs.
  • Better support for multimedia keys. This can help control SMPlayer with a remote control.
  • New option in the playlist preferences for adding automatically other files in the folder to the playlist.
  • The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" has been fixed.
  • (Windows) Now it's possible to open Windows shortcuts (symlinks).
  • Better support for Youtube.
  • (Windows) Better screensaver disabling.
  • Many bugfixes.
  • Possibility to compile with Qt 5.

New in SMPlayer 0.8.6 (Aug 17, 2013)

  • SMPlayer can now update its internal Youtube code so it's not necessary to update smplayer everytime Youtube makes a change.
  • A section "Updates" has been added to the preferences dialog, where it's possible to configure or disable the update checker.
  • SMPlayer could still fail to find some subtitles from opensubtitles.org. Hopefully this is fixed.
  • Several other bugfixes.

New in SMPlayer 0.8.5 (May 10, 2013)

  • Due to changes in opensubtitles.org, smplayer couldn't find subtitles anymore. This has been fixed.
  • The interface with support for skins is now the default.
  • An option to enter url(s) in the playlist has been added.
  • The options to change the size of the main window work now even if the autoresize is set to never.
  • Two new options for Audio -> Stereo mode: Mono and Reverse.
  • The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" is now disabled by default because it has some issues that need to be addressed.
  • (Linux) The problem with mplayer2 and the -fontconfig option has been fixed (sort of).
  • New translation: Malay.
  • Some configuration options are changed to new defaults after installation to ease upgrade from old versions.

New in SMPlayer 0.8.4 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • New option to select the fps for external subtitles.
  • The video equalizer dialog has been rewritten.
  • Now smplayer checks for updates automatically and notifies the user if a new version is found.
  • Support for encoding ISO-8859-16 for subtitles.
  • New translations: Thai and Hebrew.
  • Some bugfixes.

New in SMPlayer 0.8.3 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Fix for Youtube playback.

New in SMPlayer 0.8.1 (Sep 21, 2012)

  • Fix for Youtube playback.
  • Other minor changes.

New in SMPlayer 0.8.0 (Apr 6, 2012)

  • A toolbar editor has been added. Now it's possible to select the buttons and controls that want to appear in the toolbars.
  • New video filters: gradfun, blur and sharpen.
  • Now it's possible to change the GUI (default, mini, mpc) at runtime, no restart required.
  • sub files from opensubtitles should work again.
  • (Youtube) Recognize short urls (like this one: http://y2u.be/F5OcZBVPwOA).
  • Better support for chapters in video files.
  • Bug fix: remote m3u files work from the favorites menu or command line.
  • Internal changes in the single instance option (switch to QtSingleApplication).

New in SMPlayer 0.6.10 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • New vdpau configuration dialog, which allow to select the vdpau codecs to use.
  • Port for eCS, OS/2 (by Silvan Scherrer).
  • New menu to select the closed caption channel (requires mplayer >= r32607).
  • Possibility to select the seeking method (absolute or relative).
  • Possibility to sort the items of the playlist.

New in SMPlayer 0.6.8 (Jul 25, 2009)

  • Added support for TV (more info in Watching_TV.txt).
  • New option to enable a global volume.
  • (Linux) Support for vdpau.
  • New option to take consecutive screenshots.
  • Possibility to add some of the submenus to the toolbars.
  • Better support for *.ts files (requires mplayer >= r29381).
  • Added the Vietnamese translation.
  • Added the Estonian translation.

New in SMPlayer 0.6.8 (Jul 21, 2009)

  • Added support for TV (more info in Watching_TV.txt).
  • New option to enable a global volume.
  • (Linux) Support for vdpau.
  • New option to take consecutive screenshots.
  • Possibility to add some of the submenus to the toolbars.
  • Better support for *.ts files (requires mplayer >= r29381).
  • Added the Vietnamese translation.
  • Added the Estonian translation.

New in SMPlayer 0.6.7 (Mar 12, 2009)

  • Added experimental (and uncomplete) support for dvd menus. Requires a mplayer build compiled with dvdnav support. Please read dvdmenus.txt to know how to enable it.
  • Now loading an external subtitle file doesn't require to restart the mplayer process (except for idx/sub subtitles).
  • (Playlist) When a file is added to the playlist, if it was already in the list, it's moved to the end of the list.
  • Options for mplayer: finally spaces in arguments between quotes are handled properly.
  • Added two options (in the audio and subtitle menus) to allow the user to enter the audio and subtitle delay (in milliseconds).
  • (ASS subtitles) The outline and shadow options now accept values with decimals.
  • (ASS subtitles) Possibility to change the color of the border and shadow.
  • Now the default value for the "correct pts" option is auto.

New in SMPlayer 0.6.6 (Jan 2, 2009)

  • Added an option to generate a preview (thumbnails) of the video.
  • Added a new gui (mpcgui, a media player classic clone) developed by Matthias Petri.
  • Added some auto zoom options, to display the video without black borders.
  • Implemented a new (and optional) method to save the file settings. This method uses an ini file per each played file. It's faster than the old one.
  • Added a new option in Preferences->Video: add black borders on fullscreen. If this option is enabled, black borders will be added to the image in fullscreen mode. This allows subtitles to be displayed on the black borders.
  • Increased the resolution of the seekbar. Allows a more accurate seeking.
  • Added 3 modes for the stay on top option: always, never and while playing.
  • Added a history to the open URL dialog.
  • Added new action to cycle through all aspect ratios. Assigned by default to key "A".
  • It's possible to run some specified actions every time a file is loaded.
  • Possibility to set up a proxy for internet connections (used for subtitle downloading).

New in SMPlayer 0.6.5 (Nov 13, 2008)

  • The subtitles when using the SSA/ASS library can now be further customized. It's possible to select the font, size, colors, bold, italic, outline, shadow...
  • Now smplayer tries to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification for the config files. That means the now the configuration files will be saved under the directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/smplayer (or $HOME/.config/smplayer if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined). If you want to keep your preferences, copy or move the files from $HOME/.smplayer to the new location.
  • Added some options in Preferences->Interface to configure the floating control.
  • The commandline option -ini-path has been removed and replaced with -config-path, which specifies the directory where smplayer will store its data (not only smplayer.ini).

New in SMPlayer 0.6.4 (Oct 25, 2008)

  • Now the dialog to find subtitles can also download the subtitle file and load it in smplayer automatically.
  • The black screen problem when using Compiz should really be fixed now.
  • Added support for encoding autodetection for subtitle files. Requires a mplayer compiled with enca support.
  • Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with alsa (needs the application "aplay").
  • Added the possibility to add consecutive files (video_01.avi, video_02.avi..) automatically to the playlist.
  • Bugfix: logout is not cancelled by smplayer.
  • Now the options in preferences display a tooltip with a help message.
  • Now it's possible to change the video track.
  • Added the Galician translation.

New in SMPlayer 0.6.3 (Sep 29, 2008)

  • A fix for a black screen problem when using Compiz was made.
  • The number of threads used by Mplayer can now be selected.
  • The audio equalizer can now be disabled.
  • Options to increase/decrease the speed by 1% and 4% were added.
  • An option to mirror the video as well as options to flip and rotate the subtitles along with the image were implemented.
  • Several bugs were fixed.

New in SMPlayer 0.6.3 (Sep 26, 2008)

  • Added a fix for a black screen problem when using Compiz.
  • Added an option to select the number of threads that mplayer will use for decoding (only works for MPEG-1/2 and some H.264 videos).
  • Added the possibility to disable the audio equalizer. Seems to be necessary to use the S/PDIF output.
  • Added some options to increase/decrease the speed by 1% and 4%. This allows to play 24 fps movies at 25 fps speed and vice versa.
  • Fix: sometimes the playlist is not shown. Added a workaround for the problem.
  • Added some checks to avoid crashes when selecting subtitle tracks.
  • The settings in smplayer.ini have been reorganized in several sections. (This also means most of your preferences will be lost and you will have to reconfigure smplayer again).
  • Added an option to mirror the video. And now it's also possible to flip and rotate the subtitles along with the image.
  • Added a new shortcut set (sda.keys) which can be loaded in the shortcut editor in preferences.
  • Added two new translations: Arabic and Kurdish.