The SMPlayer development team has announced the availability of SMPlayer 16.6.0. The new update brings exciting new features to all supported platforms.
SMPlayer is an open-source, cross-platform, and free media player that runs on Windows and Linux systems.
As its name suggests, SMPlayer is based on the MPlayer project, which means it supports all the popular audio and video formats out there. The new version, SMPlayer 16.6, uses the latest Qt5 technologies, finally bringing the long-awaited support for high-DPI (HiDPI) displays.
For Linux users, HiDPI is disabled by default, so after upgrading SMPlayer to version 16.6.0, you can enable it from Settings. Note that HiDPI support requires Qt 5.4 or later.
Another exciting new feature coming with the new SMPlayer 16.6.0 is support for modern 2-in-1 displays, especially on systems running Windows 10. Users can install SMPlayer 16.6 and enable the new “tablet mode” from the options menu. This will allow them to manage the media player using the device’s touchscreen.
SMPlayer 16.6.0 also supports sending video streams to an external display connected to your computer. The setting can be enabled from the Video menu.
Download the updated version.
Alternative packages
smplayer-16.6.0-x64.exe (package for Windows 64-bit)
SMPlayer Portable (portable version for Windows)
If you wish you can also try the development version.
Mirror provided by fosshub.com
The MPlayer binaries for Windows have been provided by redxii. More info at https://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net
Packages for Ubuntu
SMPlayer commands for installation from terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install smplayer smplayer-themes smplayer-skins
Packages for Fedora
Open a terminal and run these commands:Fedora 23:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/smplayerdev/Fedora_23/home:smplayerdev.repo sudo dnf install smplayer
Fedora 22:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/smplayerdev/Fedora_22/home:smplayerdev.repo sudo dnf install smplayer
Development
You can get the latest source from svn with this command:
svn co https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/smplayer/smplayer/trunk/ smplayer
