{"id":283,"date":"2018-04-29T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=283"},"modified":"2024-12-25T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T17:01:09","slug":"smplayer","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/portfolio\/smplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"SMPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The QT application <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smplayer.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SMPlayer<\/a> is &#8211; even if its design looks dated &#8211; the most luxurious front end for the video codec omnivore Mplayer. To use mpv as the base software instead of MPlayer, it must be configured under <em>Settings &gt; General &gt; Multimedia module<\/em>. To use hardware acceleration, you should also select the best output driver for your hardware under <em>General &gt; Video<\/em>. For Nvidia CPUs this is VDPau, for Intel VAApi.<\/p>\n<p>The SMPlayer developers have added SMTube to their software, which enables the playback of YouTube streams entirely without a web browser. If YouTube access should ever be \u201cbroken\u201d, the developers quickly endeavor to make adjustments, which can be installed with a mouse click independently of Ubuntu&#8217;s package management. Thanks to mpv&#8217;s connection to the youtube-dl command line program, this also works with many other streaming video websites.<\/p>\n<h3 title=\"Zur Homepage\">Installation<\/h3>\n<p title=\"Zur Homepage\">SMPlayer may be installed easily from Ubuntu&#8217;s Universe repository:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install smplayer smtube<\/pre>\n<p title=\"Zur Homepage\">For Ubuntu, the project homepage recommends a PPA, but it has updates only for Ubuntu versions up to 22.04 LTS:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm\/smplayer\r\nsudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<h3>Alternativen<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/celluloid-player.github.io\/\">Celluloid<\/a> (previously known as Gnome-mpv) is a lightweight GTK frontend f\u00fcr mpv. <a href=\"https:\/\/haruna.kde.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haruna<\/a> does the same for KDE and more, because it can play YouTube videos.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The QT application SMPlayer is &#8211; even if its design looks dated &#8211; the most luxurious front end for the video codec omnivore Mplayer. To use mpv as the base software instead of MPlayer, it must be configured under Settings &gt; General &gt; Multimedia module. To use hardware acceleration, you should also select the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[22],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-283","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/283\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntu.dirkschmidtke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}