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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 120

[SOLVED]Reopening SMplayer - and no video

I have 2 computers running ARCH at home with almost identical setups.  Both use KDE with SMplayer as the default video player.

The problem is on my daughter's computer :
Clicking on a video file will open SMplayer running the video.So far so good.  BUT ... once you close SMplayer and then click again on the file, now SMplayer will open again, but with NO video window - just a kind of "minimalized" SMplayer.
On my computer - everything is just right.

I've found out that by deleting the video .ini file in "/home/USER/.config/smplayer/file_settings/", SMplayer will reopen OK.  So I've looked for some meaningful change between the .ini files on mine and my daughter computers but they look the same.

Any idea will be appreciated.

Thanks
Ben

Edit:
Please look at @santeesteve message (no. 10 and currently last) here
Or, to save you time :

I just started getting that with some mkv and mov files, but have been seeing the same problems with some mp4 files for a couple months.  Fixed the mkv problem by adding to (this is Linux)  $(HOME)/.mplayer/config:

[extension.mkv]
demuxer=mkv

will add the .mov fix and see if trying mp4 works.

Edit:  using the mov demuxer fixed the problems with mp4 files too:

[extension.mp4]
demuxer=mov

Last edited by ben-arch (2010-08-06 11:44:07)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [SOLVED]Reopening SMplayer - and no video

it happened to me too on some mkv and ogv videos. but not for all and this is very strange.
my guess is that is a bug in smplayer since it happened after mplayer changed decoders for mkv and ogv to lavf(ffmpeg decoder).

this issue should be reported on smplayer bugtracker.

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jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 262

Re: [SOLVED]Reopening SMplayer - and no video

I had the same problem as Wonder, and putting "cache=8192" in the [performance] section of ~/.config/smplayer/smplayer.ini fixed it.

ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 120

Re: [SOLVED]Reopening SMplayer - and no video

@WONDER - posted on their forum.  hopefully will get a solution.  Othewise will report it.

@jt512 - thanks for teh suggestion.  Didn't help :-(

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [SOLVED]Reopening SMplayer - and no video

@WONDER - posted on their forum.  hopefully will get a solution.  Othewise will report it.

link  please?

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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 120

Re: [SOLVED]Reopening SMplayer - and no video

Link