On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote: > Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer > especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie. Second that. I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch the 'Multimedia engine.' Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below. Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by following: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e49641129388c7658 and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to: michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet #!/bin/bash COMMAND="$1" shift for arg; do COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\"" done sg no-internet "$COMMAND" Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to: no-internet smplayer %U * I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later, everything else came from the Internet... Best, Michael # aptitude show smplayer Package: smplayer State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 18.6.0-1~trusty1 Priority: extra Section: graphics Maintainer: Ricardo Villalba <rvm@...> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 15.4 M Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-script (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), mplayer | mplayer-nogui | mpv (>= 0.6.2) PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.14.12ubuntu3) Recommends: smplayer-themes, smplayer-skins, smtube, alsa-utils, x11-utils, pulseaudio-utils Conflicts: smplayer Replaces: smplayer-l10n, smplayer-l10n, smplayer-translations, smplayer-translations Provides: smplayer-l10n, smplayer-translations Description: A great media player SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning mplayer and also for mpv. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of mplayer and mpv, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or search and download subtitles. One of the main features is the ability to remember the state of a played file, so when you play it later it will be resumed at the same point and with the same settings. # aptitude show mplayer Package: mplayer State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 2:1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3 Priority: extra Section: universe/graphics Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@...> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 5,139 k Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libavcodec54 (>= 6:9.1-1) | libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 6:9.11), libavformat54 (>= 6:9.1-1), libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1), libbluray1 (>= 1:0.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta17-1), libcdparanoia0 (>= 3.10.2+debian), libdca0, libdirectfb-1.2-9, libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3), libenca0 (>= 1.9), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35), libfaad2 (>= 2.7), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgif4 (>= 4.1.4), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblircclient0, libmpeg2-4, libopenal1 (>= 1:1.13), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpostproc52 (>= 5:0.git20120217~), libpulse0 (>= 1:0.99.1), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libsvga1, libswscale2 (>= 6:9.1-1), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtinfo5, libvdpau1 (>= 0.2), libx11-6, libx264-142, libxext6, libxinerama1, libxv1, libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), libxvmc1, libxxf86dga1, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: bzip2, fontconfig, mplayer-doc, netselect | fping, ttf-freefont Conflicts: mplayer2, mplayer2, mplayer Replaces: mencoder (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mencoder (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-doc (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-doc (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-nogui (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-nogui (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer2, mplayer2 Provided by: mplayer2 Description: movie player for Unix-like systems MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, DirectFB, but also SDL. Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball. See the README.Debian and copyright files for details. Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ # aptitude show mpv Package: mpv State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2:0.15.0+git7~trusty Priority: optional Section: video Maintainer: Doug McMahon <mc631man@...> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 20.7 M Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.27), libbluray1 (>= 0.3.0~), libbs2b0, libc6 (>= 2.16), libcdio-cdda1 (>= 0.83), libcdio-paranoia1 (>= 0.83), libcdio13 (>= 0.83), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.25), libdvdnav4 (>= 4.1.3), libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3), libfdk-aac1 (>= 0.1.4.0~trusty1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.4.10), libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libgme0 (>= 0.5.5), libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.17-0), libgsm1 (>= 1.0.13), libguess1 (>= 1.2.1), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.9.9), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.6), liblua5.2-0, libmp3lame0, libopenjpeg2, libopus0 (>= 1.0.3), libpulse0 (>= 1:1.0), librtmp0 (>= 2.3), librubberband2, libsmbclient (>= 2:4.0.3+dfsg1), libsoxr0 (>= 0.1.0), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libssh-4 (>= 0.4.2), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtwolame0, libuchardet0, libv4l-0 (>= 0.5.0), libva1 (> 1.3.0~), libvdpau1 (>= 0.2), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), libvpx1 (>= 1.3.0), libwavpack1 (>= 4.40.0), libx11-6, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1, libxext6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2), libxss1, libxv1, libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2) Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri, i965-va-driver | libva-intel-vaapi-driver | va-driver, mesa-vdpau-drivers | nvidia-vdpau-driver | nvidia-driver-binary | nvidia-current | vdpau-driver Suggests: libaacs0 Conflicts: mpv Description: mplayer/mplayer2 based video player MPV is a versatile CLI movie player, based on mplayer and mplayer2. This build uses latest git FFmpeg & libass with some encoding support For online streaming recommended to install upstream youtube-dl & keep updated See here https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html Homepage: http://mpv.io/