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Years ago when I was a Windows user my only media player of choice was VLC. When I switched to linux I stuck with VLC. I never had a problem with it until a few years ago something changed and it no longer plays some IPTV streams.

mpv will play everything I want but it doesn't have a gui. It does have ability for customizing keyboard shortcuts with a configuration file. Celluloid is a gui front end for mpv and solves some of my problems and it can use mpv configuration files.

A few years ago I installed Smplayer and hated the default gui with the giant toolbar and status bar. I didn't poke around enough to learn about it and just avoided it. I think it changed a lot since then.

The past few days I installed Smplayer and VLC again. I didn't realize I could customize most of the keyboard shortcuts and the gui on both. I changed some of the keyboard shortcuts so the ones I am used to are the same as the default ones in mpv.

Then I made the guis look almost like Celluloid.

Shortly after my latest post about celluloid, after Stevo's suggestion, I decided to try SMPlayer. I had to tweak it quite a bit and not everything was as straight forward. I did a similar thing as you with the interface, tried to make it celluloid-like. So far I like it, the only thing I don't like is that it's not as snappy on startup or on playing queued videos, it waits half a second before it starts playing the next file. But I can live with that, everything else works as it should, hence I'll stick with it from now on atleast on this machine. (For others here that want to keep using Celluloid, stick to v0.20 on the main repo, it has 1-2 bugs but it's not nearly as problematic as v0.25 on test.)

I'm curious if you are using SMPlayer as a front end to mplayer or mpv. You can switch in its settings.

I installed the new test repo version of mpv by itself before I installed smplayer so I don't know off hand what all the dependencies are or how mplayer fits in.
I saw smplayer's default multimedia engine is set to Other and the box next to it has /usr/bin/mpv. It looks like a user change but it's not. I haven't tried changing it yet.

BV206 wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 2:47 pm I installed the new test repo version of mpv by itself before I installed smplayer so I don't know off hand what all the dependencies are or how mplayer fits in.
I saw smplayer's default multimedia engine is set to Other and the box next to it has /usr/bin/mpv. It looks like a user change but it's not. I haven't tried changing it yet.

@Stevo Same! Installed mpv from test first to see if I liked it, but it was too minimal for my needs. Then downloaded SMPlayer. By default the multimedia engine path was /usr/bin/mpv, I clicked the options box which was set to "Other..." and selected "mpv" which set the same path, no surprise there lol.