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Tharbad

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Registered: 2016-02-27

Posts: 321

[SOLVED] SMPlayer has stopped playing videos since 8.10.25

Hi all,

There was something video related in the last system update I did.
Here's pacman log (minus stuff i'm sure ain't related):
https://pastebin.com/7wDy8AfB

There's no error log when using both mpv and mplayer.
with mplayer i get error code 1. With mpv audio plays normal, no video.

What I tried:
* Using smplayer wiki page troubleshoot
* Mplayer works fine.
* mpv works fine.
* Other player that use either mpv or mplayer work fine (Haruna, gnome player, dragon)
* Smplayer git version (from AUR)

Is this an Arch problem or an upstream problem?
Ideas?

Edit: Solved by renaming the config folder.

~/.config/smplayer/

smplayer.ini isn't the culprit so it can be copied to the new config.
I suspect permissions. Don't have time to confirm.

Thanks

Last edited by Tharbad (2025-10-12 13:35:59)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 542

Re: [SOLVED] SMPlayer has stopped playing videos since 8.10.25

I can't tell form your post.

It's Smplayer from AUR that is not working? Tell the maintainer.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/smplayer-git
Says that it was lst updated 2024-07-08

Have you rebuilt your AUR software against the current libs on your machine?

Tharbad

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Registered: 2016-02-27

Posts: 321

Re: [SOLVED] SMPlayer has stopped playing videos since 8.10.25

I can't tell form your post.

It's Smplayer from AUR that is not working? Tell the maintainer.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/smplayer-git
Says that it was lst updated 2024-07-08

Have you rebuilt your AUR software against the current libs on your machine?

Both official and AUR.
I installed the one from AUR 2 days ago to check.

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 542

Re: [SOLVED] SMPlayer has stopped playing videos since 8.10.25

If neither the repo or git version works for you. And you are not partially updated.

Got the latest source.
https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplaye … .0.tar.bz2
https://www.smplayer.info/en/downloads

Decompressed it into a directory. Looked at the depends, I had them.

Looked at the PKGBUILD.

Ran make in the top directory.

export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS}"
make -j2 PREFIX=/usr DOC_PATH="\\\"/usr/share/doc/smplayer\\\"" \
QMAKE_OPTS=DEFINES+=NO_DEBUG_ON_CONSOLE CFLAGS_EXTRA="${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}" \
all

That works.
https://0x0.st/Ku7_.png

Alter the PKGBUILD and make a package with makepkg. Install it with pacman.

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 542

Re: [SOLVED] SMPlayer has stopped playing videos since 8.10.25

Here is a shove in the right direction.

PKGBUILD

pkgname=smplayer
pkgver=24.6.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Media player with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats'
arch=(x86_64)
url=https://www.smplayer.info
license=(GPL-2.0-or-later)
depends=('glibc' 'qt5-base' 'qt5-declarative' 'mpv' 'libx11' 'zlib' 'gcc-libs' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
makedepends=(git qt5-tools)
optdepends=('smplayer-themes: icon themes collection'
            'smplayer-skins: skin themes collection'
#           'smtube: browse and play youtube videos'
            'youtube-dl: youtube videos and streaming'
            'yt-dlp: youtube videos and streaming'
            'mplayer: alternative multimedia engine')
provides=("${pkgname%-git}")
conflicts=("${pkgname%-git}")

#source=("$pkgname::git+https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer.git")

### I used this source
### https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer/releases/download/v25.6.0/smplayer-25.6.0.tar.bz2

sha256sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
   git -C $pkgname describe --long --tags --abbrev=7 | sed 's/^v//;s/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
}

 prepare() {
  # make build reproducible, we compress ourselves
  sed '/gzip -9/d' -i $pkgname/Makefile
}

build() {
  export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS}"
  make -C $pkgname \
    PREFIX=/usr \
    DOC_PATH="\\\"/usr/share/doc/smplayer\\\"" \
    QMAKE_OPTS=DEFINES+=NO_DEBUG_ON_CONSOLE \
    CFLAGS_EXTRA="${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}" \
    all
}

package() {
  make -C $pkgname \
    PREFIX=/usr \
    DOC_PATH=/usr/share/doc/smplayer \
    DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" \
    install
}

Do it yourself so that you can learn how. If you don't already know.

Tharbad

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Registered: 2016-02-27

Posts: 321

Re: [SOLVED] SMPlayer has stopped playing videos since 8.10.25

For some reason I'm unable to build it.

But the last version is from June and it the same one I got from AUR.
So installing from AUR should work.
Tried again today. same result.
Changed the name of my config folder and moved there my smplayer.ini.
Seems I had something wrong in my config folder. Maybe permissions? Seems something has changed recently.