SMPlayer not playing MP4 format

Question

I am trying to run some MP4 videos on SMplayer , but the player is only playing the audio, and no video is visible. The same file I open in VLC player is showing video + audio. I like SMPlayer, as its better in usability, therefore looking for the solution of playing MP4 files in it.

Thanks

Solution 1

For Playing Restricted Formats install ubuntu-restricted-extras

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Solution 2

smplayer probably not working because video ID is set to 0.

don't know about other SW, but for me it worked, when I put into ~/.config/smplayer/smplayer.ini

under section [%GEneral] put: (without quotes) "current_video_id=1"

Hope it helps

Comments

[nilsonneto]

have you installed ubuntu-restricted-extras and w32codecs?

[Fabby]

@Daniyal: What are you trying to do?

[xangua]

isn't that only for gstremer based apps¿

[None]

nope - all apps that want to play these media files (except VLC, which come with it's own)

[Joseph Sturtevant]

Thanks! For what it's worth, this also solved the problem for me with SMPlayer on Windows.