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Free Media Player for Windows, Linux and Mac OS with YouTube support.
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A bug where SMPlayer loses control of Bluetooth devices on Windows. #1055

Open fringetos opened 1 day ago

fringetos commented 1 day ago

I'll refer to both Bluetooth headsets and earphones simply as 'Bluetooth devices.' There is a serious bug in SMPlayer on Windows 10 related to Bluetooth devices. If SMPlayer is already running and you turn on a Bluetooth device, the device connects to Windows just fine, but no sound is played through SMPlayer. You can still control the playback (play/pause) of the video using the Bluetooth device's buttons, but the sound comes out of the laptop's speakers instead of the Bluetooth device. To get the sound to play through the Bluetooth device, you have to close and reopen SMPlayer.

For instance, if you have 'Windows Media Player,' 'YouTube,' and SMPlayer all open at the same time, and you're playing a video in SMPlayer when you turn on the Bluetooth device, the sound playback and control (play/pause) are taken over by YouTube or Windows Media Player, and SMPlayer loses all control, even if its window is active. The only way to get SMPlayer to regain control is to close and reopen the app. This is very inconvenient.

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smplayer-dev commented 5 hours ago

It seems a duplicate of this bug: https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer/issues/1038