

SMPlayer can search and download subtitles from. SMPlayer comes with several skins and icon themes, so you can easily change the look of the player.


SMPlayer can play Youtube videos and it also includes a handy tool which allows to search for Youtube videos. You don't need to find and install third party codecs. you can play all of them, thanks to its built-in codecs. SMPlayer supports the most known formats and codecs: avi, mp4, mkv, mpeg, mov, divx, h.264. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles. SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. don't worry, when you open that movie again it will be resumed at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. But the right one - which fails to play completely - has stereo instead of 6 channels and has ENCODER: Lavc58.54.100 libmp3lame.Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs. So the main difference that I can see, is that the original has eac3 ( which cannot be used by Chromecast) which explains why audio is mute. Left side no audio, right side can't play the file at all: So I did a comparison of the two media files ffprobe media-original.mkv 2>&1 > /dev/null So it went from not being able to play the sound to completely failing to play the media. ffmpeg -i media-original.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec mp3 media-mp3.mkvīut now Chromecast (I'm using Chrome to do Chromecast via SMPlayer) fails to play the media completely and says So I decided to convert the original video from eac3 audio encoding to mp3. When I cast a movie to Chromecast, I get no sound.
