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!

[basques]

My WMP is also working as previously, on Win7 x64.

I quite liked the Splayer, other than the funny english on the menus etc, it performs quite well, especially on big mkv videos. Not sure about that %1000 volume thing on the bar though, it looks quite dangerous.

[Udedenkz]

Tested.

It doesn't really offer any functionality different from MPC: Home Cinema. Actually, it doesn't play some files using Microsoft DTV-DVD decoder that MPC: Home Cinema plays. Files that MPC can't DXVA, this one will also be unable to DXVA.

This player also does not link files - it will not play the opening if opening is an external MKV (Many times if multiple files share the same OP then it is logical to put the OP into its own MKV and therefore save space). I didn't find any option to disable internal (Gabest?) splitter and use Haali Media Splitter instead (so that Opening and Closings would play). Am I looking in the wrong place?

It actually might be just a ripped MPC with a ****ty interface (Yes it is prettier, but not more useful). Surely the internal H264 decoder is behaving identically. Although, it is more simple which is big plus for some.

The spelling errors and the lack of advanced and well placed options is really annoying. It is a personal preference.

Performance mode is a joke as in Performance mode there is no DXVA. Bloody Brilliant!

Also subtitles are scaled down 30% from normal by default. This can be fixed.

So, this is pretty useless to me. :|

EDIT: Added Stuff.

EDIT2: Made post less draconic.

Edited January 8, 2010 by Udedenkz

[Rudy]

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

+1

[protocol7]

I've been using it most of the time since it got posted in the Freeware Alternative list. It needs some polish but I do like it.

Things I like:

Zooming video to fit screen from a menu button (in MPC-HC this is in a right-click submenu).

Automatically loads the next video(s) in a folder (though sometimes this doesn't work).

Supports more formats that vanilla MPC-HC.

Things I don't like:

Sometimes I have to drop back to MPC-HC for certain files that won't play.

Cursor takes too long to disappear in full-screen mode. Sometimes it won't go until I move it slightly again.

OSD display on bottom left can't be turned off.

Screws up file associations and thumbnails.

Not as much control over codecs/shaders.

[Ryoken]

It would be great if it was MPC-HC's Options/menu's with it's front end interface..

I need the options for renderes and the like :/

[Udedenkz]

Oh and the latest version does mess up thumbnails and leaves traces of itself after being uninstalled. So, hopefully you had a registry backup.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

It's decent but it doesn't feel polished. The GPU acceleration seems to be better than MPC-HC. I get lower CPU usage with SPlayer than MPH-HC when playing the same 1080p video.

[Shadrack]

I was quite suprised by it as well!

another thing i found quite nice was the super high volume you can set: ITS OVER 1000%! lol. actually the max is a 1000%.. you could really crack glass and eardrums with the intense bass that produces.

:no: I think you have a misconception...

[Knife Party]

Oh and the latest version does mess up thumbnails and leaves traces of itself after being uninstalled. So, hopefully you had a registry backup.

chinese crapware, made all sorts of file associations...this I hate ! :crazy:

[Cy-Kill]

chinese crapware, made all sorts of file associations...this I hate ! :crazy:

You should've seen it in Revo Uninstaller Pro, after the registry scan completed, it did it's file association (find all the crap it left on the computer), and it was associted with almost 1500 files that had nothing to do with SPlayer in the least.

[KiHu]

I got to say, I was a bit hesitant about Splayer, but after using it I absolutely love it, the Subtitle Sync and autodownload is just great.

Sitting down with housemate, slapping on a video, dont have to think about getting hold of english subs, because it gets there almost instantly.

Great app!

(Still use VLC for watching TV Shows though...not fiddled around with SPlayer enough to find a shuffle/repeat function for the playlist)

[TwoXfour]

I gave splayer a go, it does look nice, but by Christ, it messed up my file associations, broke all the thumbnails, spread itself in the registry like a virus, and took the best part of a hours googling and 30 mins going through the registry to fix it.

Very disappointed its so troublesome, as it looks quite nice. Although i dont know if its just on my system, but it always had a 3 or 4 pixel wide band from left to right just below the top windowbar, that you could only remove by moving it off screen and back...

Rubbish!!!

[CronicHazel]

Hm, this program (i dl'd the portable version) doesn't even run on my computer. Lol. it just boots up with an error msg, and promptly crashes. XD

[FlintyV]

I tried it. I liked it but it made me feel all dirty. I removed it with Revo but it also took Trillian and a few other programs by accident. :/