MPlayer for Windows (2008-06-01)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

That's a surprise. I'll test the package tonight.

I hope you agree with my change :o

But I felt it's time for some more advanced GUI than good old MPUI. It seems we won't see further updates to MPUI from the official site and I'm not going to re-invent the wheel...

(I don't know if people is going to like it, as now the package will be much bigger, I guess).

Well, we still have the "Light" package. The "Full" pack is 25 MB now.
Nevertheless I use UPX in my installer to pack the files after extraction in order to keep the install size low...

Maybe it could take less size by compiling it statically. I haven't done yet because that requires to recompile the whole Qt library (which takes several hours), and because then I couldn't release small binaries updates anymore.

Do you think it would be much smaller? Wouldn't it be the same code, just put together in one big EXE instead of external DLLs? Also I wonder if there are features you could disable in QT for SMPlayer? I see stuff like "sql" and "network" which I guess are not used in SMPlayer...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

that's cool but now I'm confused. isn't mpui a frontend? so if you use smplayer as the front end what's the difference between the using smplayer and mpui?

Well, the development of MPUI seems to be stoppen. Last update was ~1 year ago. Furthermore it is lacking many features that are implemented in SMPlayer, such as proper subtitle support. Also SMPlayer comes with a more "up-to-date" user interface. Another problem is the GL renderer, which works poorly with MPUI, but works fine with SMPlayer (excpet the problems with NVidia cards mentioned in the other thread). So IMHO it's time to switch to SMPlayer, which seems to be the more popular one anyway, and keep MPUI as a lightweight alternative...

[ExtraEye]

I understand that much but what I was wondering was about the difference between the version you just made and SMPlayer. does it use a different core or something?
what's the difference between downloading your "Mplayer for windows" and "SMPlayer"?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I understand that much but what I was wondering was about the difference between the version you just made and SMPlayer. does it use a different core or something?
what's the difference between downloading your "Mplayer for windows" and "SMPlayer"?

Only the Installer is different! Also my Installer includes different CPU specific builds of MPlayer (provided by Celtic Druid) while the "official" installer only contains one generic one...

[ExtraEye]

o.k thx now it's clear

[rvm]

Do you think it would be much smaller? Wouldn't it be the same code, just put together in one big EXE instead of external DLLs? Also I wonder if there are features you could disable in QT for SMPlayer? I see stuff like "sql" and "network" which I guess are not used in SMPlayer...

I think it would be smaller. Right now the DLLs have everything, needed or not. A statically compiled binary I think will only have the code needed. Anyway I expect the binary to be big, maybe 9-10 MB. I can't tell until I compile it that way.

I've just tested your new full package. I've found some problems.

The most important: subtitles don't work in SMPlayer. The system font (fontconfig) and ass library don't work (crashes MPlayer).
And choosing a ttf font doesn't work either. I think these new MPlayer releases expect the font to be in the -subfont option.
But SMPlayer doesn't support that option yet. In fact I've just known about it (the MPlayer manual doesn't mention it).

And the other problem, it's a small one: the uninstaller doesn't delete the SMPlayer icons in the desktop.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've just tested your new full package. I've found some problems.

The most important: subtitles don't work in SMPlayer. The system font (fontconfig) and ass library don't work (crashes MPlayer).
And choosing a ttf font doesn't work either. I think these new MPlayer releases expect the font to be in the -subfont option.
But SMPlayer doesn't support that option yet. In fact I've just known about it (the MPlayer manual doesn't mention it).

And the other problem, it's a small one: the uninstaller doesn't delete the SMPlayer icons in the desktop.

Thanks a lot for feedback :)

I also noticed a problem with fonts. One issue is that Celtic's builds of MPlayer try to load the config, the fonts and everything from "C:\Documents and Settings\Foobar\Application Data\mplayer" instead of "MPlayer.exe\mplayer". I try to fix that with the next release by copying the font files to the user's %APPDATA%\mplayer folder. Although this will work only for the user who ran the installer...

Also I will fix the uninstaller.

I think it would be smaller. Right now the DLLs have everything, needed or not. A statically compiled binary I think will only have the code needed. Anyway I expect the binary to be big, maybe 9-10 MB. I can't tell until I compile it that way.

I'd be happy to test such a build. I guess UPX'd it will be ~3 MB then...


[EDIT]

BTW: I noticed that smplayer.exe seems to have problem when I run a file from command-line and the path contains a ' character.

[rvm]

I'd be happy to test such a build. I guess UPX'd it will be ~3 MB then...

And I've just made that build :)

I recompiled Qt statically in another computer (it didn't take that long, just 10 o 15 minutes) and I built a static binary for smplayer 0.5.10. It's 11 MB size (DLLs alone were 14 MB). A package compressed with 7z, including the icon themes, is about 4 MB.

It's compiled with Qt 4.2.2, and not with the new Qt 4.3 (just for saving me to download the 60 MB of the new release).

You can get it from here (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer_windows_0.5.10_static_without_mplayer.7z?use_mirror=osdn).

According to the trolltech docs, a static binary has the advantage that it loads faster. On the other hand it won't be able to load plugins (currently smplayer doesn't use any plugins, but maybe in the future that could change).

BTW: I noticed that smplayer.exe seems to have problem when I run a file from command-line and the path contains a ' character.

I'll check it tomorrow. Right now I've tested it on linux and it seems there's no problem with that character.

[smok3]

LoRd_MuldeR, tnx for the new distro and shame about mpui :\

[LoRd_MuldeR]

And I've just made that build :)

I recompiled Qt statically in another computer (it didn't take that long, just 10 o 15 minutes) and I built a static binary for smplayer 0.5.10. It's 11 MB size (DLLs alone were 14 MB). A package compressed with 7z, including the icon themes, is about 4 MB.

It's compiled with Qt 4.2.2, and not with the new Qt 4.3 (just for saving me to download the 60 MB of the new release).

You can get it from here (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer_windows_0.5.10_static_without_mplayer.7z?use_mirror=osdn).

Great :D

After it was UPX'd, the new SMPlayer.exe is only 3,1 MB.
Also it seems startup time is really improved by static linking.

I will update the installer ASAP.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Done :)

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

SMPlayer updated to Version 0.5.14, which no longer depends on mingwm10.dll. For a complete list of all changes have a look here (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?t=165). Furthermore I found a bug in the installer, which sometimes caused the installer to not set the path to 'mplayer.exe' properly in '%APPDATA%\RVM\smplayer.ini'. This is (hopefully) fixed now! Last but not least there is a new "Reset SMPlayer configuration" tool now.

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

All MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN Revision (2007-06-18).
The new builds seem to fix the "seeking" bug with large files :)

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[kurt]

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The new builds seem to fix the "seeking" bug with large files :)

jup, works here too again... (file > 2,6 gb)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

This update contains SMPlayer v0.5.20, which fixes a few things: For example it can now open files with a ' character in the name via command-line. Furthermore the priority setting will now change the priority of SMPlayer and MPlayer, instead of MPlayer only. This should prevent GUI freeze when MPlayer eats a lot of CPU cycles. Last but not least the screenshot output directory will now be set by the installer, so the "Screenshot" button won't be grayed out after install...

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Note: Somebody reported that the trojan "Trojan.Killproc" was found in my installer. That is a FALSE positive! Killproc is a plugin for NSIS. It's not a trojan, nor any other form of malware. It just checks for a certain process and (optionally) terminates that process. In my installer it's used to make sure MPlayer is not running while you try to install.

If you encouter such FALSE positives, please report them to the author of your AV software, so they can fix the problem!

All information about the KillProc plugin can be found here:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/KillProc_plug-in

Also note the "100% Clean" award on Softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/MPlayer-for-Windows-Full-Package.shtml

[LoRd_MuldeR]

*Update*

All MPlayer builds updated to SVN 2007-06-27 :)
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

[MetalheadGautham]

hey LoRd_Mulder, I am not able to find a proper link for the file. can you upload this insialler in zshare?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

hey LoRd_Mulder, I am not able to find a proper link for the file. can you upload this insialler in zshare?

What is wrong about the mirrors we have?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have updated my MakeInstantPlayer tool to the latest versions of MPlayer and NSIS:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#instplay

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2007-07-29:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

MPlayer builds updated to 2007-07-20 :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows 2007-08-01
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#mplayer

Updated SMPlayer to version 0.5.29-qt4 (changelog (http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1029383&postcount=302)) and adjusted installer :)

[leiming2006]

it seems quite wonderful.
thanks very much!

[fight2win]

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9384/untitledxk6.png

i'm on winxp sp2 with no virus or disc errors, i dloaded mpui package from mulder's homepage and freewarefiles and softpedia, but on double click on package, i get above message...can some1 help...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I have tested this installer on WinXP x86 as well as on WinXP x64, both with latest Service Packs. Also I have downloaded the installer 3 minutes ago and everything works fine. So I can only guess that your download failed somehow. Please check the MD5 hash of your downloaded file! It should be d2675f79b6c4aa0ec1ccec49b1a3574d. You can use this (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html) tool to check the file. In case the MD5 is wrong, please try downloading again...

[tingdang99]

When I play some rmvb files with the latest or former version on Windowns vista , mplayer crash every time. But I can play the same file fine with the same version mplayer (packaged by you! ) on windows XP or 2000 system.

Why?

[chrisdab]

Do I need to uninstall any codec packages already installed on my computer if I want to install this full version with its MPUI codecs?

I cant wait to install this, I always loved MPUI but it was hard to configure the old ones.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Do I need to uninstall any codec packages already installed on my computer if I want to install this full version with its MPUI codecs?

No you don't need to uninstall anything! The MPlayer.exe uses it's own built-in Decoders and Splitters. MPlayer does not depend on any "external" Filters, Plugins or whatever. And most important: MPlayer does not use DirectShow, so you don't need to care about any DirectShow Filters or Codec Packs that are already installed. MPlayer will just run happily on it's own ^^

The so called "Codecs Package", which is included in my installer, will just copy a number of third-party DLL's into MPlayers "codecs" subfolder. MPlayer requires those DLL's for some proprietary formats (WMV, Real and so on). Nevertheless MPlayer will still work 100% fine without them. Furthermore those DLL's will not interferer with other programs installed on your computer. They are not DirectShow filters nor anything else, which could have system-wide effect...

[Lupo73]

Very good project...I'd like to collaborate with you to develop a portable version of this powerful player...I sent you also a PM to ask you it...if you are interested in this idea, you can see something more about my project at this link:
http://lupo73.altervista.org/index-en.htm

good bye and good work ^^

[LoRd_MuldeR]

MPlayer for Windows - Full Package (2007-08-19) :)
http://mplayer.de.gg/

[smok3]

tnx, would this count as shortened changelog?:

-- T:\utility\mpui : T:\utility\mpui_new
.\mplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\resetsmplayer.exe only in T:\utility\mpui_new
.\setfileassoc.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\smplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

tnx, would this count as shortened changelog?:

-- T:\utility\mpui : T:\utility\mpui_new
.\mplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\resetsmplayer.exe only in T:\utility\mpui_new
.\setfileassoc.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent)
.\smplayer.exe different (T:\utility\mpui_new is more recent) :confused:

[petran79]

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9384/untitledxk6.png

i'm on winxp sp2 with no virus or disc errors, i dloaded mpui package from mulder's homepage and freewarefiles and softpedia, but on double click on package, i get above message...can some1 help...


use a download manager like Getright. I had the same issue with Firefox.

[Schrade]

No problems here with Firefox.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

use a download manager like Getright. I had the same issue with Firefox.

Browsers I have tested to work okay:
* Firefox
* SeaMonkey
* Opera
* Safari for Windows (Beta)
* Konqueror
* IE7 (yes, even that one ^^)

Please try again without download manager, should work then...

[ululu]

Beforehand I apologize for my bad English. At me the small request to developers. You in SMPlayer could not make an opportunity to specify adjustment for audio/video by default. I have in view of to make so that when I open film or music - that at me they opens with my adjustments and I had not to go in the menu and to expose for each film or songs the adjustments. For example I want, that at me opens files with the included normalization of the loudness, the included videoeffects, for example postprocessing and the others. It is necessary for me, that I did not specify these adjustments and did not include effects for each file, and would start already with the tinctures. To me it will be easier so, will come to switch adjustments not for each file, but only for certain (determined). And much I think such it will be useful.

[rvm]

There are options in the preferences dialog to activate volume normalization and postprocessing for all videos.

For other options, ok, you can't easily (maybe in the future), but you can always add options for mplayer in preferences->advanced.

[toology]

I've been a longtime user of your MPUI + MPlayer package, but recently I moved to a new computer and I have a problem.

I watch my avi files on a plasma tv connected via S-video cable to a GeForce 8800 GTS. I used to use the full screen video mirror option, but there is none on the drivers for my new graphic card. The video plays fine on my monitor but when I drag it to the tv (I set up dual view on Windows Xp), The MPUI windows looks empty (ie. black).

I've noticed that only players using overlay (MPC, Zoom Player) show video on the tv. Is there any way to set MPUI to overlay, or do you perhaps have a better solution?

A big thank you for an excellent package and I hope that you have some ideas about a possible solution! :)

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I've been a longtime user of your MPUI + MPlayer package, but recently I moved to a new computer and I have a problem.

I watch my avi files on a plasma tv connected via S-video cable to a GeForce 8800 GTS. I used to use the full screen video mirror option, but there is none on the drivers for my new graphic card. The video plays fine on my monitor but when I drag it to the tv (I set up dual view on Windows Xp), The MPUI windows looks empty (ie. black).

I've noticed that only players using overlay (MPC, Zoom Player) show video on the tv. Is there any way to set MPUI to overlay, or do you perhaps have a better solution?

A big thank you for an excellent package and I hope that you have some ideas about a possible solution! :)

Run MPUI, go to "Tools" -> "Options" and add to "Additional MPlayer parameters" the follwing:
-adapter x

Replace the x with the display number (0, 1, 2, ...) where you want the overlay to appear :)

You can also try to use OpenGL instead of Overlay by adding:
-vo gl

[toology]

Wow! Thanks for such a quick response! I'll try it out tomorrow and let you know how it worked.

[toology]

The adapter command unfortunately doesn't give results and when I tried to use gl I got this>

AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=mp3
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 560 x 228 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 2.46:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.4561
[swscaler @ 00D0A850]SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
VO: [gl] 560x228 => 560x228 BGRA
[gl] Could not create GL context!


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: filter_video
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[messinian]

Hello LoRd_MuldeR.

I install the last version of your program (19/08/2007). I check the "AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF" and in Preferences->General I choose video:directx and audio:win32. With this combination the
AC3 or DTS audiostream played fine.

Next step playing DVD form drive, the subtitle displayed ok.

When playing a ripped DVD from a folder (ex. Video_TS) there seems to be a subtitle problem because any combination I use I can't display the subtitle.

The same problem it happens also with the last smplayer (rvm version).

Can you help please?

I am running on Windows XP SP2.

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

SMPlayer updated to v0.5.43 :)

[messinian]

LoRd_MuldeR or rvm or anyone

any solution to my problem with subtitle?

Thanks

[rvm]

Could you paste the mplayer log?

[messinian]

ok, thiw is mplayer log:

G:/Program Files/MPlayer for Windows/mplayer.exe -noquiet -nofs -afm hwac3 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo directx -ao win32 -zoom -nokeepaspect -priority abovenormal -framedrop -wid 459360 -colorkey 131586 -monitoraspect 1.6 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-7 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -dvd-device N:/DVDs/GLADIATOR -chapter 1 -dvdangle 1 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add expand=osd=1 -noslices -vf-add screenshot dvd://1

MPlayer dev-SVN-r24100-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
Setting process priority: abovenormal
113 audio & 235 video codecs

Playing dvd://1.
ID_DVD_TITLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=29
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=8915.360
ID_DVD_DISC_ID=F68326160A218068D69883E2ECF4A6E1
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1
There are 29 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: dts (5.1) language: en aid: 137.
ID_AUDIO_ID=137
ID_AID_137_LANG=en
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
subtitle ( sid ): 14 language: el
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=14
ID_SID_14_LANG=el
number of subtitles on disk: 1
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:06:56,00:12:18,00:16:46,00:21:25,00:30:31,00:34:35,00:37:43,00:44:09,00:48:02,00:51:05,00:56:07,01:03:24,01:11:59,01:18:03,01:25:34,01:30:12,01:35:29,01:39:55,01:43:52,01:47:41,01:53:19,01:58:02,02:04:01,02:08:05,02:12:55,02:17:07,02:21:11,02:28:34,
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=137
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=dvd://1
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=9800000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=8915.36
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpeg12
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family hwac3...
Opening audio decoder: [hwac3] AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF
hwac3: switched to DTS, 768000 bps, 48000 Hz
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, ac3, 768.0 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 96000->192000)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=768000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [hwdts] afm: hwac3 (DTS through S/PDIF)
==========================================================================
AO: [win32] 48000Hz 2ch ac3 (1 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=hwdts
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7778
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 [zoom]
ID_AUDIO_TRACK=137
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=14

Exiting... (Quit)
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv420p to bgr24 using MMX2
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using n-tap MMX scaler for vertical scaling (BGR)
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: using MMX2 YV12->BGR24 Converter
[swscaler @ 00C85850]SwScaler: 720x576 -> 1024x576

I'm waiting for your help.
Thanks

[rvm]

I don't see any error message or complain from mplayer.
If you play the dvd with another player, do the subtitles show?

[Wurstwasser]

LordMullder is now smplayer your preferred Gui? It's pretty slow on slower hardware (like cpu's below 1 GhZ)... Can you please make the installer give an option of which GUI to choose? And a file association program also for mpui? Thx,,,!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Can you please make the installer give an option of which GUI to choose? And a file association program also for mpui? Thx,,,!

Installation of SMPlayer is optional in my installer! If you uncheck SMPlayer, then only MPUI will be installed and all file association will point to MPUI...

[EpheMeroN]

LoRd_MuldeR: Can you please add an option in your next release to be able to choose whether MPUI or SMPlayer is the default player? MPUI (although far inferior optionswise) is still a lot better on system resources on my old PIII Dell.

OMG the previous post was about what I asked for. However, even though that would work, I still use SMPlayer on here too for say a dvd or video file with many subtitle or audio streams.