SMPlayer - neue Oberfläche für MPlayer

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Version 0.6.0 final.

Most important changes since 0.6.0rc4:

* (Bugfix) Two mplayer processes were run when opening a file. This could
even make Aero in Windows Vista to be disabled.
* Seeking with the time slider works much better.
* Now it's possible to add directories recursively to the playlist.
* Added a preferences dialog for the playlist.
* The right mouse button can be configured.
* (Linux) File managers should now display an option to enqueue files in
the smplayer playlist.
* (Fix) The playlist was shown for a small moment on startup. This caused
problems if using compiz, as the window might not hide.
* Fix for Qt 4.4, the logo didn't show.
* Some translations have been updated (Simplified-Chinese, Italian,
Ukrainian, Dutch, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese,
Spanish and German)
* Now the file Install.txt contains updated info about how to compile and
install smplayer.

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Version 0.61

Most important changes since 0.6.0 final:

* Now compact mode resizes the window, instead of leaving black borders.
* Added an option in Preferences->Interface which allows the user to select his/her preferred GUI. This way it's easier to use the mini GUI, for those who prefer a simpler interface with few buttons.
* One more fix for Qt 4.4. The option FAQ in the Help menu didn't work.
* (Windows) Fix: zoom didn't work well (black blocks appeared) if using directx.
* Added the Catalan translation.

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Version 0.6.2.

Most important changes since 0.6.1:

* Added an audio equalizer (please read Audio_equalizer.txt).
* Added a dialog to search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org
(See Finding_subtitles.txt).
* The toolbars can be configured. The user can remove, add or change the
order of the buttons. Right now it can only be done by editing manually
the configuration file. A graphical editor will be added in the next
version. See Configuring_the_toolbars.txt.
* The single instance port can now be chosen automatically by the application.
* Possibility to compile a portable version which (by default) won't write
anything outside the smplayer's folder. It won't write either anything
in the Windows registry. See Portable_Edition.txt for details.
* Added the Slovenian translation.

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Version 0.6.3.

Most important changes since 0.6.2 (see the Changelog for the whole list):

* Two fixes for Windows Vista. Now IPv4 is used by default (connection to
networks are faster). And now it really uses "gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack"
as the default video output driver. Note: this mode could give problems
with some graphic cards (specially ATI), if you experience any, try the
other gl variants, or just directx.
* (Linux) Added a fix for a black screen problem when using Compiz.
* Added an option to select the number of threads that mplayer will use for
decoding (only works for MPEG-1/2 and some H.264 videos).
* Added the possibility to disable the audio equalizer. Seems to be necessary
to use the S/PDIF output.
* Added some options to increase/decrease the speed by 1% and 4%. This allows
to play 24 fps movies at 25 fps speed and vice versa.
* Fix: sometimes the playlist is not shown. Added a workaround for the problem.
* Added some checks to avoid crashes when selecting subtitle tracks.
* (Windows) Added a new submenu Video->Screen to select the screen which will
display the video when using directx.
* The settings in smplayer.ini have been reorganized in several sections.
(This also means most of your preferences will be lost and you will have to
reconfigure smplayer again).
* Added an option to mirror the video. And now it's also possible to flip and
rotate the subtitles along with the image.
* Added a new shortcut set (sda.keys) which can be loaded in the shortcut
editor in preferences.
* Added two new translations: Arabic and Kurdish.

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v0.6.4.

(2008-10-22)
* (Linux) Now smplayer will pop up a warning if the mplayer version is old. This popup will appear only once, although there'll be a reminder in the status line. A mplayer is considered old if it's older than svn r25158 (that includes 1.0rc2)

(2008-10-21)
* Now if the SSA/ASS lib is enabled and a file named styles.ass exists in the smplayer config directory ($HOME/.smplayer/ or the application directory if compiled with PORTABLE_APP) smplayer will load it (mplayer option -ass-styles). In this case the color for subtitles and styles configured in Preferences->Subtitles WON'T be used. In the future smplayer will create that file automatically and the preferences dialog will allow to configure all (or at least the most important) styles.

(2008-10-20)
* Bugfix: the show equalizer option didn't work when assigned to any of the mouse buttons. (Reason: the action name was changed some time ago from "equalizer" to "video_equalizer)
* Added "Show audio equalizer" to the mouse buttons' combos too.

(2008-10-19)
* (Experimental) Added the possibility to change the video track. Only tested with this sample video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3GAGZCTP

(2008-10-16)
* Moved the comboboxes for the video & audio drivers to the Video and Audio tabs.
* Added a new section in the preferences dialog: Playlist.

(2008-10-15)
* Added the possibility to add consecutive files (video_01.avi, video_02.avi..) to the playlist. This feature is controlled by the option add_to_playlist_consecutive_files (under the [gui] section).
* Now the available tracks in DVDs, CDs and VCDs won't be automatically addedto the playlist if the option gui/auto_add_to_playlist is false. Should fix bug #2049998.

(2008-10-14)
* Logout is not cancelled by smplayer. Fixes bug #2155555.
* Now the options in preferences display a tooltip with a help message.
* Revised and corrected some of the help messages in preferences.
* Added 1:1 to the aspect ratio menu.

(2008-10-10)
* Added a work-around for Traditional Chinese. The names of the arrow keys were deleted from the shortcuts if using Qt 4.3.

(2008-10-09)
* Now the video keeps paused when changing brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma.
* Now the dialog to find subtitles can also download the subtitles (the zip file) and extract the subtitle file. This is exactly how it works: when you click on the download button, the zip file is downloaded to a temporary file. If the zip file contains only one subtitle, it's extracted, trying to use the same name of the video. So if the video is named movie.avi and you downloaded a French subtitle, the subtitle is saved as movie_fr.srt. If there are more than one subtitle in the zip file, a dialog will appear so the user can choose the subtitle(s) to extract. In that case, and in order not to make things more complicated, the subtitles are just saved with their original names.

(2008-10-06)
* (Windows) Added a tool (dxlist) which can list the dsound audio devices and the ddraw display devices. Read the README.txt inside the dxlist subdirectory for more info and how to compile it.
* (Windows) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with dsound. It requires dxlist.exe to be installed in the same folder as smplayer.exe. This is experimental.

(2008-10-05)
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: display_in_compact_mode (under section [floating_control]). If true the floating control will appear too in compact mode. Note: it may not look very well in this mode...

(2008-10-04)
* (Linux) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with alsa. It requires the application "aplay" to be installed.

(2008-10-03)
* Added an option in Preferences -> General -> Video to set the default zoom.

(2008-10-02)
* Applied (with some changes) the patch to add support for enca, by Stanislav Maslovski. This adds a new option in Preferences -> Subtitles, which can make mplayer to try to autodetect the encoding for subtitles. This requires a mplayer compiled with enca support.

(2008-09-29)
* Now the chapters on DVD should work again.
* Reorganization in some data structures.
* Added another experimental new code to resize the main window.

(2008-09-28)
* Added an (experimental) generic code to manage chapters, instead of two separate codes for mkv and DVDs. Seems to work well with mkv but it's still untested on DVDs.

(2008-09-27)
* Added basic support for the tag ID_CHAPTERS, added in mplayer svn r27667. This makes things easier to know the number of chapters in a video. Don't know if it could cause a conflict with DVD chapters. Some code has still to be revised and modified.
* Bugfix: if using "directx," the -colorkey option wasn't passed to mplayer (thus the video was black). Now this should be fixed.

(2008-09-26)
* Added support for the new "pausing_keep_force" slave mode command prefix (added in mplayer r27665). This prefix really keeps the file paused after processing a slave command. So now if you, for example, mute the audio when the video is paused it won't advance one frame after it. It also keeps the video paused when you take a screenshot (although you won't see the confirmation message until playback resumes). There's also an option for smplayer.ini, use_pausing_keep_force. You can set to false if you find any trouble or prefer the old behaviour.

(2008-09-25)
* Added the Galician translation, by Miguel Branco.

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(Windows) New 0.6.4-2 packages

6.4 I realized of some important problems in the Windows packages... there were missing dxlist.exe and the font subdirectory in mplayer (that prevented mplayer to use fontconfig).

But when I added that font directory in my system I experienced a severe crash on my computer when mplayer was creating the font cache.

Because of that I made new packages: smplayer_0.6.4-2_setup.exe and smplayer-portable-0.6.4-2.7z.

These packages include the missing dxlist.exe file and add again the old mplayer SVN r27130 instead of the new r27811.

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SMPlayer 0.6.5.0.

(2008-11-11)
* (Linux) Now smplayer tries to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedi … atest.html) for the config files. So now smplayer will save its config files under the directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/smplayer or $HOME/.config/smplayer if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined. If you want to keep your preferences, copy the files in $HOME/.smplayer to $HOME/.config/smplayer

(2008-11-07)
* Added a new option "Floating control" in Preferences->Interface. It allows to configure the floating control (width, margin...).

(2008-11-06)
* (Experimental) Added the possibility to select the adaptor for xv. Requires at least MPlayer SVN r26762 (from 2008-05-13).

(2008-11-05)
* Added support for another patch: http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/vie … _exit.diff
This patch allows the playlist to work properly even if the output messages of mplayer are not in English.
* New option for smplayer.ini: bypass_window_manager (section [floating_control]). If set to true (the default), the floating control widget will bypass the window manager (seems necessary for some window managers). You can try to set it to false if you have problems with the floating control.

(2008-11-04)
* On startup the previous position of the main (default) window is checked if it's valid for the current screen. If it's not, then the window is moved to 0x0.
* The same for the playlist (if it's not docked).

(2008-11-01)
* Cleanup and reorganization of the config path code. The commandline option -ini-path has been removed and replaced with -config-path, which specifies the directory where smplayer will store its data (not only smplayer.ini).
* Now to know if a file has no video, instead of looking for the line "Video: no video" (it's not reliable as it's a string that can be translated), it will check the video codec, if it's empty, there's no video.

(2008-10-30)
* The reorganization of the subtitles section in preferences is finished.
* The mplayer devs have added the -volume option in svn r27872, so now the hack to try to detect a patched mplayer have been removed. Now smplayer will simply use the -volume option if mplayer is r27872 or newer.

(2008-10-28)
* The subtitles for srt, sub... formats when using the SSA/ASS library, can now be more customized. It's possible to select the font, size, colors, bold, italic, outline, shadow... Not finished yet.

(2008-10-27)
* Added the new option "Correct pts" in Preferences->Advanced. Disabled by default because it causes some problems with mkv files.
* The dialog to jump to a specified time allows now to enter the seconds too.

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SMPlayer 0.6.5.1.

Again, just after the release of 0.6.5 some problems have been detected. (It seems very few people test the svn versions)

* the portable version didn't compile
* mplayer could fail in the first run, complaining about an unknown -no-correct-pts option. This only happens if using a recent version of mplayer (r26842 or above).

Because of that, a version 0.6.5.1, with fixes for those two problems, has been released.

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Version 0.6.6:

(2008-12-28)
* (Linux) Now the options in the dvd menus can be selected with the mouse. To do so, select "Activate option in DVD menus" for the left mouse button in Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse.
* Implemented a different way to select the initial audio track (or restore the old one after a restart).
* (Experimental) New code to show/hide the mouse cursor in the video window.

(2008-12-27)
* (Linux) Added some actions to control the dvdnav buttons.

(2008-12-26)
* The language filter in the find subtitles dialog is now saved to the ini file.
* New option for smplayer.ini: include_lang_on_filename (section [findsubtitles]). If set to true (the default) the language code is appended to the subtitle filename (e.g. video.avi => video_es.srt). Otherwise the language code is not appended (video.avi => video.srt).

(2008-12-24)
* Implemented a different way to select the initial subtitle track (or restore the old one after a restart). Still needs some testing.

(2008-12-23)
* Now smplayer tries to update the subtitle tracks if they change during playback. This makes subtitles work if using dvdnav, and seems to fix a problem when selecting the initial track (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph … tid=913573) This is the kind of changes that can break something or produce an unexpected behaviour...

(2008-12-20)
* Applied with a few changes the patch customStyleAction.patch by matt. It adds a few more functions for the widgetactions, like to set a custom style.
* Added a new gui (mpcgui, a media player classic clone) developed by Matthias Petri.

(2008-12-19)
* Applied (with a few changes) a patch by matt. This patch adds 3 modes for the stay on top option: always, never and while playing.

(2008-12-12)
* Added a new option Video->Preview. This option creates a preview (thumbnails) of the selected video. There are options to choose the number of columns, rows, maximum width of the generated image... Finally the preview can be saved (as jpg or png). Note: the video preview is not finished yet.

(2008-12-07)
* (Experimental) Increased the resolution of the seekbar. Previously a step of the seekbar (in a 90 minute movie) was equal to 54 seconds. Now it's equal to 5.4 seconds. As there's usually an I-frame about 10 seconds (and mplayer always jumps to an I-frame) I think that's enough.

(2008-12-06)
* Bug #2399200: the downloaded subtitle filename was wrong if the video filename contained a dot in the name (example: video.hdtv.avi created a video_es.srt file instead of video.hdtv_es.avi). This is now fixed.

(2008-12-03)
* Now the logs in the mplayer/smplayer log windows update in realtime.
* The "MPlayer language" tab in the Advanced section in preferences has been removed. It's not necessary anymore, although if you've got a mplayer which prints the output texts in a non-english language you'll need at least MPlayer SVN r28066.
* Added two new options: "Auto zoom for 16:9" and "Auto zoom for 2.35:1". Those options zoom the image assuming the aspect ratio of the video image is the one specified in the option, even if that's not the actual aspect ratio. Useful for videos which include black borders (letterbox) in the image, where the normal "Auto zoom" option will fail.

(2008-11-30)
* New option for smplayer.ini: actions_to_run ([advanced] section). Specifies a list of actions (separated by spaces) which will be run every time a file is loaded. For instance "actions_to_run=auto_zoom compact true" will run the auto_zoom action and set the gui to compact mode. If the commandline option -actions is used too, the actions from commandline will be added to the end of the list. There's a limitation: the actions will be run only when a file is opened and not when the mplayer process is restarted (e.g. you select an option in the menus which requires to restart mplayer, like a video or audio filter). Note that allowing to run the actions after a restart of mplayer could lead to infinite recursion if any of the actions in the list needs to restart mplayer.
* Added a field in Preferences->Advanced to enter the list of actions to be run every time a file is opened.

(2008-11-27)
* Added an option in Preferences->General to change the method to store the file settings.
* (Experimental) Added the new option Video->Pan&scan->Auto zoom. It calculates the zoom factor so you can't see any black borders.

(2008-11-26)
* Implemented a new (and optional) method to save the file settings. This method uses an ini file per each played file (instead of using only one big ini file for all of them).

The files are saved under the subdirectory "file_settings" in the config directory (usually $HOME/.config/smplayer/). As filename it uses a hash, and it's stored on a subdirectory starting with the first letter of the filename.

For example:
$HOME/.config/smplayer/file_settings/d/dd017f9d6706a75f.ini
$HOME/.config/smplayer/file_settings/9/95e963e59826699d.ini

* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: file_settings_method. This option allows to select the method to be used for the file settings. Possible values: normal and hash.

normal = uses one file (smplayer_files.ini) to store the file settings of all played files. This is cleaner as you only have one file for all files' settings but it could be slow if there are info for many many files in it.

hash = uses one ini file per each played file. This could be much faster if you have info for many files, but you'll end up with many ini files and subdirectories.

(2008-11-24)
* Added a new option in Preferences->Video: add black borders on fullscreen. If this option is enabled, black borders will be added to the image in fullscreen mode. This allows subtitles to be displayed on the black borders.

(2008-11-23)
* Added a history to the open URL dialog. Based on a patch by Francesco Cosoleto. Not finished yet. Missing options to clear the history or set the maximum number of items.
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: urls\max_items (section [history]). It specifies the maximum number of items for the open URL history. By default, 10. Set it to 0 to disable the history.

(2008-11-20)
* The "Recents" code has been reorganized. Also the list of recent files is now saved in a different place in smplayer.ini, in section [history].

(2008-11-19)
* When using SSA/ASS, use the same font for OSD. Otherwise the OSD might not be visible.

(2008-11-18)
* Added the possibility to select the type of proxy to be used: Http or Socks5. (More info: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qnetworkproxy.html)

(2008-11-17)
* Added a new option in Preferences->Subtitle: Freetype support. Disabling that option could make smplayer work with a mplayer compiled without freetype support. But subtitles may not work at all!

(2008-11-16)
* The mini gui can now also remember the position and size of the window.
* (Linux) Now all devices which match with dvd*, cdrom*, cdrw*, sr* and cdrecorder* are added to the comboboxes in Preferences->Drives.

(2008-11-15)
* Added a new action to select the next aspect ratio. Assigned by default to key "A". Unfortunately this change breaks compatibility and the aspect ratio setting for all your played videos will be lost.
* Display the text for the statusbar in the OSD if in fullscreen mode (and not paused).
* Added a new option for smplayer.ini: initial_stereo_mode. It sets the stereo mode which will be used as default. Possible values: 0 (stereo), 1 (left) and 2 (right).

(2008-11-14)
* Added the new section Advanced->Proxy in preferences to configure the proxy.

(2008-11-13)
* Added some options in smplayer.ini (section [proxy]) to configure a proxy for internet connections. Untested.

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0.8.0.

* A toolbar editor has been added. Now it's possible to select the buttons and controls that want to appear in the toolbars.
* New video filters: gradfun, blur and sharpen.
* Now it's possible to change the GUI (default, mini, mpc) at runtime, no restart required.
* sub files from opensubtitles should work again.
* (Youtube) Recognize short urls (like this one: http://y2u.be/F5OcZBVPwOA)
* Better support for chapters in video files.
* Bug fix: remote m3u files work from the favorites menu or command line.
* Internal changes in the single instance option (switch to QtSingleApplication).