SMPlayer, one of the best video and music players on Linux, works because it focuses on playing videos/music and adding useful tools for the cinephile. Unlike the popular and powerful VLC player, SMPlayer isn't overloaded with advanced (and occasionally complicated) features like transcoding, video streaming, and video capture. Some of the highlights of the MPlayer-based SMPlayer include the following:
1. Accessible and Real-time Playlist - VLC allows users to move the playlist around and dock it which way they want, though not everyone finds this convenient or practical. Moreover, it's not the best for small screens. SMPlayer uses a simple collapse and expand playlist window at the bottom. As a bonus, file types that are associated with SMPlayer are automatically added when clicked from a file manager - no separate SMPlayer instance is launched nor does SMPlayer stop playing a running video or song. This is especially useful when browsing through music or video libraries.
2. Screenshots and multiple screenshots - For movie buffs (or perverts), taking continuous screenshots of a running video takes just a quick Shift+D to start and end continues screen captures. Press S at any time for single frame captures.
3. Subtitles support - Some video players have excellent subtitle support, but SMPlayer makes it easy to change subtitle settings while watching a video. The subtitles menu provides numerous options for delaying, loading, positioning, and even downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
4. Video Preview snapshot reel - Movie reviewers and bloggers would love this feature. Using Preview, SMPlayer creates a succession of screen captures that provides a summary of the movie (similar to ones displayed in online video stores, porn sites, and torrent sites). Click Video on the menu bar and then Preview to setup the video preview snapshot reel.
5. Continues unfinished videos/movies - This simple but underrated feature is useful for the busy Linux user. Just open the video and SMPlayer begins where you left off.
0 comments:
Post a Comment