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mattg568: 2009-12-02 01:49:12 pm

2009-11-30 03:25:29 pm

I've found a couple issues using the latest version in Vista. First, the file associate feature, while working in XP, does not work in Vista. When you check a file type and do apply, this message appears: "Not all files could be associated. Please check your security permissions and retry." Running smplayer.exe in admin mode does not help.

Second, when creating a playlist for my mp3 albums, if you save the playlist that has a entry in the playlist with a comma in the name, upon reloading the playlist, that entry will have only the contents of what was after the comma. Your only option is to use no commas when using the naming feature in the playlist.

EDIT: I ran smplayer.exe in XP SP2 compatibility mode and file types work! It's easier for me to use Winamp for my music and SMPlayer for videos.

By the way, the direct3d video driver works great in Vista. Without it, h.264 60FPS videos choked on my laptop's Intel graphics. With it, it's smooth all the way!

Puntja

2009-12-01 08:10:42 am

i have problems with smplayer

when i watch movies with external mp3,the video and audio just stops after a random amount of time

mattg568

2009-12-02 04:02:54 pm

I've found a bug. I think it involves the screensaver disabling feature. I don't use a screensaver, I just have my laptop screen go into power save mode after 20 minutes. The bug happens when you play a video in SMPlayer. After closing the player, the focus somehow remains on the player and keeps your PC from going into screensaver/power save mode now matter how much you wait.

mattg568

2010-07-12 06:48:24 pm

All these months and no information or fix for this screen saver / monitor power off bug?

Here is my situation:

My OS is Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit and I have my Laptop's screen set where it turns off after 20 minutes.

Using the SMPlayer build in this thread, the screen never turns off no matter how long I wait. The only way to get the monitor power off feature to work again is to click the battery icon in the system tray and change the power setting to something else, then change it back to what I had originally set.

This problem does not occur in the official SMPlayer build for Windows. I like the build here because it is faster than the official build.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Serris

2010-08-12 06:44:16 am

Clueless post incoming. I'm currently watching a series where every episode is split into five chapters (Opening, Act 1, Act 2, Ending, Preview) and four separate video files (Act 1&2, Preview, and one of two different Opening/Ending sets), which is apparently done to reduce overall file size (Openings/Endings only take up space once instead of once for every episode), and I guess my media player (VLC) is supposed to pick up the pieces, put them in order and play them back seamlessly when opening one of the main files (Act 1&2), but it doesn't. Instead, the main file plays its part back fine until it reaches the point where the previous part (Opening) would have ended (at 1m 20s), then starts over with no sound. Similar problems occur in the middle of the video where the transition to Act 2 is supposed to happen. Skipping through the video manually isn't working properly, either. If VLC is capable of playing this back correctly, then I have no idea how to make it work. The reason I'm even posting this here is that I still had the SMPlayer build from this thread's first post on my desktop and decided to try playing back the files with it - and it worked. Opening/Act1&2/Ending/Preview playback was fine throughout with what I assume were the default settings since I didn't change anything. Unfortunately, subtitle font and placement was messed up and I found no way to change it. I decided to get the latest "official" SMPlayer build only to see it handle the files the same way VLC did - subtitles fine, everything else not. Does anyone know how to make this work in VLC?

nate

2010-08-12 11:14:04 am

i've never heard of vlc supporting ... whatever it's called, i know there's a proper name for it. and it sounds like someone broke it in that most recent build of mplayer you tried. rather than trying to track down a build of mplayer for windows in which it's not broken it may be easier for you to set up subtitle display how you like in the build of mplayer used by sda smplayer. to do this you will need to manually configure mplayer. it's actually not as hard as it sounds. you will be editing a file called config in notepad or similar. for example if you want videos to open fullscreen by default you write fs=yes on a line by itself in that file. here are some other options (shamelessly ripped from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77329 ):

Code:

font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/impact.ttf
ffactor="10" #black outline
sub-bg-alpha="0" #background color ala closed captions
sub-bg-color="0" #black to white
subfont-text-scale="3.7"	#truetype font scaling
subfont-blur="1" #Slight blur
subpos="90"	#By default subtitles are too low
subalign="2"
spuaa=4 #Anti-alias subs. (4: best and slowest)

you can mix and match these until you get something you like. check that thread for more stuff including all the keyboard navigation shortcuts.

you save the "config" file under a folder called mplayer in the same directory as smplayer iirc. there's probably already a file there that you can edit rather than creating a new one.

alternatively, since you're on windows, you could try installing the cccp and viewing anime or whatever in windows media player (or media player classic that comes with the cccp). however, i'm not sure whether the cccp supports whatever it's called with the discrete files.

i've never heard of vlc supporting ... whatever it's called, i know there's a proper name for it. and it sounds like someone broke it in that most recent build of mplayer you tried. rather than trying to track down a build of mplayer for windows in which it's not broken it may be easier for you to set up subtitle display how you like in the build of mplayer used by sda smplayer. to do this you will need to manually configure mplayer. it's actually not as hard as it sounds. you will be editing a file called config in notepad or similar. for example if you want videos to open fullscreen by default you write fs=yes on a line by itself in that file. here are some other options (shamelessly ripped from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77329 ):

[code]font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/impact.ttf
ffactor="10" #black outline
sub-bg-alpha="0" #background color ala closed captions
sub-bg-color="0" #black to white
subfont-text-scale="3.7"	#truetype font scaling
subfont-blur="1" #Slight blur
subpos="90"	#By default subtitles are too low
subalign="2"
spuaa=4 #Anti-alias subs. (4: best and slowest)
[/code]

you can mix and match these until you get something you like. check that thread for more stuff including all the keyboard navigation shortcuts.

you save the "config" file under a folder called mplayer in the same directory as smplayer iirc. there's probably already a file there that you can edit rather than creating a new one.

alternatively, since you're on windows, you could try installing [url=http://www.cccp-project.net/]the cccp[/url] and viewing anime or whatever in windows media player (or media player classic that comes with the cccp). however, i'm not sure whether the cccp supports whatever it's called with the discrete files.

Serris

2010-08-13 01:52:09 am

I replaced the recent SMPlayer build's MPlayer with SDA SMPlayer's MPlayer and now everything seems to be working. Thanks for the help.

YoukaiDragoon

2011-04-06 03:04:46 pm

Just FYI I downloaded the smPlayer and the mplayer.exe file triggered a virus warning in AVG.

forever

2011-04-19 11:07:53 pm

hi

Is there any way to play 2 audio tracks at the same time? I've been watching the speedrunning videos from the last marathon and I'd like to be able to hear both tracks at the same time. In the commentary track, I can barely hear the game.

giobemo

2012-02-06 04:46:50 am

@ mattg568 (and others with this problem)- if you click on your windows start and type in the search box "file associations" a nifty little tool for SMPlayer shows up called... "Set File Extensions". You guessed it! Just open that baby up and it will change all the associations you want for SMPlayer.

giobemo

2012-02-06 04:59:25 am

@ mattg658- I realize this is an ancient thread & he's probably long gone, but anyone else with the monitor energy saver problem should go into options-->general-->video (tab) and make sure the boxes for "Switch screensaver off" and "Avoid screensaver" are both UNchecked.

giobemo

2012-02-06 05:10:18 am

@ Serris- again, ancient post, but in case anyone else experiences this particular (though rather unique-sounding problem). Without seeing everything hands on and messing around with the VLC settings myself (I've never experienced your particular scenario before), I can only suggest a possible workaround: If your goal is to play the files back to back without getting up of the sofa to manually open each one up, can I suggest renaming the files and possible even moving them into separate folders, and then making a VLC (or SMPlayer) queue or playlist of them in the order you want them to be played back? The idea of renaming/separating them is so that VLC won't associate them with one another & then botch up the playback by trying unsuccessfully to rejoin them automatically. I'm sure there's a tidier way of doing this through settings, but this should get the job done- of course there will be a small delay when it closes one file & opens the next, but compared to a commercial break, you're still coming out well on top! Smiley

@ Serris- again, ancient post, but in case anyone else experiences this particular (though rather unique-sounding problem). Without seeing everything hands on and messing around with the VLC settings myself (I've never experienced your particular scenario before), I can only suggest a possible workaround: If your goal is to play the files back to back without getting up of the sofa to manually open each one up, can I suggest renaming the files and possible even moving them into separate folders, and then making a VLC (or SMPlayer) queue or playlist of them in the order you want them to be played back? The idea of renaming/separating them is so that VLC won't associate them with one another & then botch up the playback by trying unsuccessfully to rejoin them automatically. I'm sure there's a tidier way of doing this through settings, but this should get the job done- of course there will be a small delay when it closes one file & opens the next, but compared to a commercial break, you're still coming out well on top! :)

giobemo

2012-02-06 05:14:40 am

@ YoukaiDragoon- I've been using all of it for years, and no problem. I actually have AVG too now- I can't remember if I needed to add it to exceptions or if I never got the virus warning from it. Just to be safe maybe double-check that you have a legit version, and thet no one's spoofed it with a virus version...

giobemo

2012-02-06 05:35:32 am

@ forever (and future problematics)- no way to do it through regular settings, unfortunately. (unless you had an external ac3 filter running which let you select both, or which let you play one through the filter while sending the other through to the player). To do it directly through SMPlayer, though, you'd have to write new commands into the programming if you're savvy & a gambling man to boot (a possible place to start: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2006-November/064230.html ). But, as long as you have enough memory you can of course open the file in 2 instances of SMPlayer and play one track in each (in options-->interface-->instances (tab) DEselect "Use only one running instance of SMPlayer"). Then minimize one of the players and watch on the other. Or you can use 2 different players simultaneously (MPUI and SMPlayer, or even WMP or VLC or whatever). Again, another messy solution, but it gets the job done.

mattg568

2012-05-02 06:42:09 pm

Quote from giobemo:

@ mattg658- I realize this is an ancient thread & he's probably long gone, but anyone else with the monitor energy saver problem should go into options-->general-->video (tab) and make sure the boxes for "Switch screensaver off" and "Avoid screensaver" are both UNchecked.

The monitor power off bug in SMPlayer was a real documented bug at the SMPlayer forums. It was fixed sometime after. The build hosted here most likely has that bugged version. As to the options in the player itself, it did not make any difference.

SMPlayer has recently been brought back into development after being dormant for some time. The official version never gave me any of the problems I've spoken of.