Splayer: VLC alternative

[BilliShere]

http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html

SPlayer is a free, open source media player that is lightweight, well designed, and quite powerful. It promises to play every conceivable media format (including DVD?s and streaming media), and to optimize your audio and video quality to best utilize your hardware specifications. It is light on power consumption, making it ideal for laptop/travel use, is truly portable, and offers a handful of innovative features such as on-demand automatic downloads of subtitles.

This is going to be my media player classic replacement!

I thought it might be worth posting this since i didnt see any forums that mention this app. looks promising!

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

What errors are you getting? I'm using MPC-HC x86 (no need for x64) on Win7 x64 and have zero issues.

That said, I did spend a very long time trialling and testing different settings and codecs in order to get to this level so if you can tell me the errors you are getting and also post screenshots of your options page sections:

* Output

* Internal Filters

* Audio Switcher

* Miscellaneous

I should be able to help.

There is a very logical nack to MPC-HC and it's also very easy to get problems during this setup phase but once set up correctly you'll have zero problems whatsoever.

[Cy-Kill]

I am on Vista x64, and MPC-HC was working fine until MS decided to give us DX11, the error has something to do with EVR, it doesn't like DX11, and I used the x64 version.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

Can you post a screenshot of your output page in options?

[Cy-Kill]

No, because I don't have it anymore, haven't used it in about 2 months.

[Rob2687]

It looks nice. I'd switch from Media Player Classic if this offered as much control over what codecs are used as MPC does.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

No, because I don't have it anymore, haven't used it in about 2 months.

It's most likely you had the wrong EVR settings in the output screen so it failed with DX11 or your Vista install when upgraded to DX11 broke EVR video output or your video card drivers were corrupt in that department or just outdated.

It's not going to be an MPC-HC issue because it's not a known bug given the huge number of MPC users.

I recommend reinstalling it, or even using the zipped version to test.

[Cy-Kill]

Both EVR settings are working now, strange, of course I do happen to use MPC-HC that can be found at:

http://www.xvidvideo.ru/media-player-class...cinema-x86-x64/

[cabron]

Mac version?

[Cy-Kill]

Mac version?

Windows only.

[Fluxii Media]

I actually like this... much better than Foobar2000 IMHO. :) Thanks.

[Veedems Veteran]

I'd try it, but if it's going to mess up WMP and thumbnails and such, I'm not going to bother.

[Cy-Kill]

I actually like this... much better than Foobar2000 IMHO. :) Thanks.

That makes no sense, because foobar2000 is only for music.

[lnmnky]

I'm finding this lags more than VLC and MPCHC, even though CPU is about 5% less. I'd rather it worked hard.

[frogger]

no always on top :(

but other than that i like it.

if only it had the autohide feature of kmplayer

[Guest]

Nice UI, doesn't seem to use external codecs though, similar to the way VLC works and I'm far too happy with MPC-HC with my custom settings with ffdshow and coreacv for HD. Wish I could get MPC-HC looking this nice though :)

[rustix]

More than 1 million users are using it? Surprising.

Anyway, downloading it. Will give it a go and see if its better than KMPlayer.

I still personally prefer The KMPlayer. Also what does smart subtitle do exactly?

[rajputwarrior]

using it and liking it! going to keep using it for a few days to see if its a keeper though... been using MPC for years now.

[BilliShere]

no always on top :(

but other than that i like it.

if only it had the autohide feature of kmplayer

there is an always on top option.

move the mouse toward the titlebar ,

the hud comes up, hit the pin like icon all the way on the right.

I still personally prefer The KMPlayer. Also what does smart subtitle do exactly?

from what ive seen, it gets the subtitles automatically, and very accurately too! so that you dont have to search and find yourself, manually, although that option is there as well.

Hardly a VLC alternative if it's only single-platform

I whole-heartedly agree, as a linux and windows user, I would love to see this on both platforms.

Edited January 2, 2010 by BilliShere

[BilliShere]

I'd try it, but if it's going to mess up WMP and thumbnails and such, I'm not going to bother.

On windows 7, windows media player and thumbnails are working flawlessly! It didn't mess with those two.

Still it wouldn't hurt to make a system restore point before hand.

[RoomKid]

Love the interface, downloading it in while.

[argonite]

I tried it, I kind of liked it, but kept screwing up demuxing of audio from FLV files.

[Darrian]

I don't care for VLC in the slightest, but I'll give it a go. If it performs well enough and isn't too bloated (which it doesn't appear to be) then it may just replace MPC-HC (here's a hint, MPC-HC devs... we get the minimal video player concept, but if you won't modernize the UI a little then at least make it skinnable so we can).

Update: After trying a variety of different videos I have decided that this is awesome, and unless I run into major incompatibilities in the future, which I don't see since it's playing all my usual filetypes just perfectly, I'm probably going to keep this as my default video player. Thanks to the OP for the tip.

Edited January 2, 2010 by Darrian

[rustix]

from what ive seen, it gets the subtitles automatically, and very accurately too! so that you dont have to search and find yourself, manually, although that option is there as well.

ah right.. i thought it might be able to automatically sync subs which are out of sync but I suppose thats a bit far fetched isn't it :pinch:

[LOC Veteran]

This is the ONLY player I can play HD videos on because it actually uses GPU acceleration while other players do not (for whatever reason). So, this player owns.

[mail]

I wish they hadn't hardcoded the skin images into the exe.