| 1 | NOTE: This document is a little bit outdated, but still it could be useful.
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| 3 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Not so obvious things
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| 6 |
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| 7 | There's still no manual or help in smplayer.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | So I think I should explain some things that are not so obvious.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | * Stop button. Pressing the Stop button once stops the video. If you
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| 12 | press Play, the video will resume at the same point. But if you press
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| 13 | Stop twice the time position is reset to 0, so Play will start the video
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| 14 | from the beginning.
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| 15 |
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| 16 | * The pause button. The first time you click on it, the video is
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| 17 | paused. The following times it will step to the next frame. This
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| 18 | behavior only occurs with the pause button, not with the pause option in
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| 19 | the menu.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | * Double clicking in the video window toggles fullscreen.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | * The Esc key can be used to exit from fullscreen mode.
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| 24 |
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| 25 | * The O key switches OSD modes (the same way mplayer does)
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| 26 |
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| 27 | * The option Open->URL doesn't check if you really typed a URL. What
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| 28 | you type is passed to mplayer. So you may use this option to play not
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| 29 | supported yet media, for instance TV channels, VCD, or anything
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| 30 | supported by mplayer.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | * You can use the mouse wheel to go forward or backward.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | * If you want to make a screenshot of smplayer, with a video playing
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| 35 | (for example to show it to your friends so they can see how wonderful
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| 36 | smplayer is ;) ) you have to select "x11" as video driver. Otherwise
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| 37 | you'll get a blue window instead of video. In Windows you have to select
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| 38 | "directx:noaccel", which does not appears in the combo, you have to type
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| 39 | it.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | * Probably you'll have noticed that when you select some options the
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| 42 | video window goes black for a moment and then resumes. This is because
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| 43 | smplayer has to stop mplayer and start it again (with new options) and
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| 44 | cannot be avoided.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | * If you play a DVD you'll see that smplayer won't save the settings
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| 47 | (audio, subtitles and so on), so if you play it again later you will
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| 48 | have to select your desired options again. Some time ago, smplayer did
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| 49 | save the settings for DVDs but I removed it. Reasons: resuming playback
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| 50 | at the same point is not possible (mplayer fault, it doesn't report the
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| 51 | actual current time) and the disc had to be read twice, one for
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| 52 | identifying it and other for starting playback. That could be very slow.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | * If your locale is set to spanish (es_ES) smplayer will display the
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| 55 | messages in Spanish. smplayer can be translated to other languages
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| 56 | easily.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | * Deinterlace. mplayer has a lot of deinterlace filters. I have chosen 3
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| 59 | for smplayer:
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| 60 |
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| 61 | * Lowpass5 (pp=l5). Works well most of the time, even with divx videos
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| 62 | which have been bad deinterlaced. But this filter produces some "ghost"
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| 63 | effect in movement scenes.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | * Yadif. It seems it works very well with mpeg files at full
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| 66 | resolution. No ghosting, but some times the movement is not smooth. The
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| 67 | bad part is that uses a lot of CPU.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | * Linear Blend (pp=lb). Produces a lot of ghosting and blurs the
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| 70 | image.
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| 71 |
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| 72 | * Video filters:
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| 73 |
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| 74 | * Autodetect phase. Most movies and TV series (in PAL world) are not
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| 75 | interlaced but progressive. But maybe in the computer they may seem
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| 76 | interlaced (this happens to me sometimes with my dvd recorder). It
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| 77 | seems that those videos have a field changed or shifted or something
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| 78 | like that. "Autodetect phase" fixes it (-vf phase=A).
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| 79 |
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| 80 | * Denoise. This filter removes noise from the image, making it
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| 81 | cleaner. But it could also remove a lot of details...
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| 82 |
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| 83 | * Deblock. If the blocks of a video are very noticeable this filter
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| 84 | could help a little bit.
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| 85 |
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| 86 | * Dering. Actually I don't know what this filter does...
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| 87 |
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| 88 | * Add noise. Add a little bit of noise to the image. Can be useful to
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| 89 | "cover" the blocks with noise or after a denoise, so the image doesn't
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| 90 | look so extremely clean.
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