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NOTE: This document is a little bit outdated, but still it could be useful.
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Not so obvious things
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There's still no manual or help in smplayer.
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So I think I should explain some things that are not so obvious.
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[*] Stop button. Pressing the Stop button once stops the video. If you
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* Stop button. Pressing the Stop button once stops the video. If you
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press Play, the video will resume at the same point. But if you press
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Stop twice the time position is reset to 0, so Play will start the video
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from the beginning.
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[*]The pause button. The first time you click on it, the video is
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* The pause button. The first time you click on it, the video is
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paused. The following times it will step to the next frame. This
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behavior only occurs with the pause button, not with the pause option in
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[*]Double clicking in the video window toggles fullscreen.
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[*]The Esc key can be used to exit from fullscreen mode.
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[*]The O key switches OSD modes (the same way mplayer does)
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[*]The option Open->URL doesn't check if you really typed a URL. What
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* Double clicking in the video window toggles fullscreen.
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* The Esc key can be used to exit from fullscreen mode.
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* The O key switches OSD modes (the same way mplayer does)
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* The option Open->URL doesn't check if you really typed a URL. What
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you type is passed to mplayer. So you may use this option to play not
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supported yet media, for instance TV channels, VCD, or anything
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supported by mplayer.
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[*]You can use the mouse wheel to go forward or backward.
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* You can use the mouse wheel to go forward or backward.
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[*]If you want to make a screenshot of smplayer, with a video playing
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* If you want to make a screenshot of smplayer, with a video playing
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(for example to show it to your friends so they can see how wonderful
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smplayer is ;) ) you have to select "x11" as video driver. Otherwise
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you'll get a blue window instead of video. In Windows you have to select
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"directx:noaccel", which does not appears in the combo, you have to type
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[*]Probably you'll have noticed that when you select some options the
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* Probably you'll have noticed that when you select some options the
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video window goes black for a moment and then resumes. This is because
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smplayer has to stop mplayer and start it again (with new options) and
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[*]If you play a DVD you'll see that smplayer won't save the settings
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* If you play a DVD you'll see that smplayer won't save the settings
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(audio, subtitles and so on), so if you play it again later you will
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have to select your desired options again. Some time ago, smplayer did
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save the settings for DVDs but I removed it. Reasons: resuming playback
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actual current time) and the disc had to be read twice, one for
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identifying it and other for starting playback. That could be very slow.
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[*]If your locale is set to spanish (es_ES) smplayer will display the
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* If your locale is set to spanish (es_ES) smplayer will display the
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messages in Spanish. smplayer can be translated to other languages
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[*]Deinterlace. mplayer has a lot of deinterlace filters. I have chosen
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3 for smplayer: [list]
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* Deinterlace. mplayer has a lot of deinterlace filters. I have chosen 3
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[*]Lowpass5 (pp=l5). Works well most of the time, even with divx videos
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* Lowpass5 (pp=l5). Works well most of the time, even with divx videos
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which have been bad deinterlaced. But this filter produces some "ghost"
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effect in movement scenes.
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[*]Yadif. It seems it works very well with mpeg files at full
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* Yadif. It seems it works very well with mpeg files at full
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resolution. No ghosting, but some times the movement is not smooth. The
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bad part is that uses a lot of CPU.
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[*]Linear Blend (pp=lb). Produces a lot of ghosting and blurs the
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[*]Video filters:[list]
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[*]Autodetect phase. Most movies and TV series (in PAL world) are not
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* Linear Blend (pp=lb). Produces a lot of ghosting and blurs the
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* Autodetect phase. Most movies and TV series (in PAL world) are not
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interlaced but progressive. But maybe in the computer they may seem
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interlaced (this happens to me sometimes with my dvd recorder). It
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seems that those videos have a field changed or shifted or something
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like that. "Autodetect phase" fixes it (-vf phase=A).
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[*] Denoise. This filter removes noise from the image, making it
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* Denoise. This filter removes noise from the image, making it
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cleaner. But it could also remove a lot of details...
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[*] Deblock. If the blocks of a video are very noticeable this filter
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* Deblock. If the blocks of a video are very noticeable this filter
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could help a little bit.
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[*] Dering. Actually I don't know what this filter does...
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* Dering. Actually I don't know what this filter does...
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[*] Add noise. Add a little bit of noise to the image. Can be useful to
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* Add noise. Add a little bit of noise to the image. Can be useful to
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"cover" the blocks with noise or after a denoise, so the image doesn't
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look so extremely clean.
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