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Splayer: VLC alternative


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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!

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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.

You can do GPU acceleration in MPC-HC, of course you have to change a few things here and there settings wise, while SPlayer seems to do it natively.

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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.

From the internet? (can't really test right now at work) If so then I'm definitely keeping it.

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

it most certainly won't harm wmp but it change ur thumbnails to it own natural icon which for me has bugger up my avi to mpg thumbernails

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WMP was working fine until I installed SPlayer, now WMP won't even open.

wmp works for me but let agree on one thing it a player we won't touch untill it gets some bugs fixed out

did u try the fix https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...=592055728& offer reg wise

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Having a look, I've been a long time user of MPC-HC as it's been perfect for video and I can put looks aside for it's functionality.

Can anyone tell me if CoreAVC will work with SPlayer? :)

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After much searching, I finally came across the article on GPU accleration using MPC-HC, on Guru3D, here is the URL to the article:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/accelerate-x...-the-gpu-guide/

Wow, that's some article lol

Gonna try it out on MPC-HC though, only because the UI is what I want, basic and simple. :)

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SPlayer is a problem, I uninstalled it using Revo Uninstaller Pro, did it's thing, then I made it do a scan, it found the registry stuff left behind, and then it did the rest of the scan and it turns out SPlayer is like a virus because it associated itself with just under 1500 files & folders altogether, it's a good thing I didn't hit delete.

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SPlayer's GPU acceleration support is awesome

SPlayer is a problem, I uninstalled it using Revo Uninstaller Pro, did it's thing, then I made it do a scan, it found the registry stuff left behind, and then it did the rest of the scan and it turns out SPlayer is like a virus because it associated itself with just under 1500 files & folders altogether, it's a good thing I didn't hit delete.

Really? When I uninstalled SPlayer (used Revo Uninstaller Pro as well) it didn't show that many associations.

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Hehe, Quick Lunch. Anyways, you don't need to install this program. If you have 7zip, just open the setup file as an archive, and extract it. Then, run Splayer :)

Not a bad little program. I used to use SMPlayer on Windows XP, but now with Win. 7, I haven't used anything but WMP, since it supports 99% of the things I play.

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