Install SMPlayer, one of the best Linux video players and audio player for Ubuntu Linux. SMPlayer media player for Linux Ubuntu comes with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats.
SMPlayer
SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn’t need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you’ll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs. SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. 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 supports the most known formats and codecs: avi, mp4, mkv, mpeg, mov, divx, h.264… you can play all of them, thanks to its built-in codecs. You don’t need to find and install third party codecs. SMPlayer can play YouTube videos and it’s also available an optional plugin to search for YouTube videos. SMPlayer can search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
SMPlayer includes many advanced features like video and audio filters, change of the playback speed, adjustment of audio and subtitles delay, video equalizer… and many more.
SMPlayer changes
Version 19.5
- Fix for YouTube.
- Fix YouTube live streams (works only with mpv).
- New actions available for previous subtitle track, previous audio track and previous video track.
- New command line option -start.
Version 19.1
- Possibility to play 60fps videos from YouTube.
- Now it’s possible to search for subtitles typing the name of the movie or show.
- Some bug fixes.
Install SMPlayer 19.5
Run the following commands in terminal to install the latest version of SMPlayer 19.5 on Ubuntu Systems, via PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install smplayer smplayer-themes smplayer-skins
Once installed, start the SMPlayer from Ubuntu Dash.