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Smplayer. #1402

Open nazar2sfive opened 5 years ago

nazar2sfive commented 5 years ago

https://www.smplayer.info/en/downloads

SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.

lebensterben commented 5 years ago

If they really don't need external codecs then it's quite awesome. I briefly read their source code and didn't see anything similar to codecs.cpp, but do see a codedownloader.cpp.

I'm not clear what do they mean by the 'code' that they're downloading. If it's indeed some codecs and it's FREE, then it's fine. Otherwise, it's troublesome.

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ahkok commented 5 years ago

If it has built-in codecs as it claims for x264, AAC, we can not package it.

sunnyflunk commented 5 years ago

Two paragraphs lower...

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.

After downloading the binary build and removing the mpv bundle, it was unable to start a video as "Mplayer/mpv failed to start". So probably no codecs in this source, just an mpv frontend and will play whatever mpv supports.