How to install SMPlayer 14.9 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04. SMPlayer is a free media player for Linux Ubuntu systems with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. SMPlayer is a front-end media player for DVD and VCD playback.
SMPlayer can play Youtube videos and it also includes a handy tool which allows to search for Youtube videos. The best part, it can resume a closed movie from the video-scene it was closed. SMPlayer can search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
The latest version available is SMPlayer 14.9, which comes with support for mpv and a few fixes for Youtube.
Install DVD VCD Player on Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smplayer
To remove (uninstall) the smplayer, run the following code:
sudo apt-get remove smplayer
The same commands can also be used to install SMPlayer 14.9 on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Derivatives.