You can check the downloads page for some distribution-specific versions, or download the latest development version (careful it might be unstable!) and compile it on your own by following the instructions in the included install.txt file. You will probably be able to install SMPlayer using the standard package application of your distribution in my case, I use Smart, so a simple sudo smart install smplayer did the trick. Also, be sure to have the libqt4 libraries, as the latest version of SMPlayer uses Qt 4.4.1. It is written using the Qt libraries (as most of KDE is this practically ensures good integration with the KDE desktop) and thus can be used not only under Linux, but with Windows too.īefore you install it you must have installed MPlayer, but MPlayer is included or available for just about all distributions. SMPlayer version 0.6.2 was released last month, and is licensed under the GPLv2. SMPlayer can play practically anything - you can watch DVDs and VCDs, stream videos from a URL, or play audio CDs or MP3s. SMPlayer is an advanced multimedia player wrapped around MPlayer that provides a friendlier and more powerful front end to the underlying application.

Loosely speaking, in software terms, a wrapper is something that provides an alternate interface to another object.

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