SMPlayer Review–One of the Most Powerful Video Players for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 2, 2008

[ Thanks to Chris7mas for this link.
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“SMPlayer is a complete video player built in Qt 4.4.0 and based
on the powerful, open-source MPlayer.

“The version I decided to test in this review is 0.6.1 from SVN.
SMPlayer basically plays anything video or audio, including DVDs,
VCDs or DVD ISO images, audio CDs, MPEG, AVI or ASF. You can also
play mounted images of DVDs by pointing to the directory which
contains the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories. It can also play
videos from a given URL location…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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