{"id":3182,"date":"2014-04-17T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2014-04-17T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:17:28","slug":"smplayer-play-blu-ray-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/smplayer-play-blu-ray-discs\/","title":{"rendered":"Install SMPlayer 14.3 in Ubuntu 14.04 to Play Blu-ray Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SMPlayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1369\" alt=\"SMPlayer Ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SMPlayer.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SMPlayer.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SMPlayer-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SMPlayer, the graphical front-end of MPlayer, now is able to <b>play non-protected blu-ray discs<\/b> since release 14.3.0. While Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty still has the version 0.8.x, here&#8217;s how to install the latest build of this media player in Ubuntu via the PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in SMPlayer 14.3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The control for fullscreen mode has been rewritten and improved. Now it is displayed over the video.<\/li>\n<li>(Windows) New option in Preferences -&gt; Subtitles to enable or disable the use of the Windows font directory. Disabling this option prevents the annoying font scanning.<\/li>\n<li>Some presets have been added to the audio equalizer.<\/li>\n<li>(Experimental) Possibility to play (non-protected) blu-ray discs.<\/li>\n<li>Better support for multimedia keys. This can help control SMPlayer with a remote control.<\/li>\n<li>New option in the playlist preferences for adding automatically other files in the folder to the playlist.<\/li>\n<li>The option &#8220;Move the window when the video area is dragged&#8221; has been fixed.<\/li>\n<li>(Windows) Now it&#8217;s possible to open Windows shortcuts (symlinks).<\/li>\n<li>Better support for Youtube.<\/li>\n<li>(Windows) Better screensaver disabling.<\/li>\n<li>Many bugfixes.<\/li>\n<li>Possibility to compile with Qt 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/smplayer14-3-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/smplayer14-3-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"smplayer14-3-ubuntu\" width=\"580\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/smplayer14-3-ubuntu.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/smplayer14-3-ubuntu-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install SMPlayer:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm\/smplayer \n\nsudo apt-get update \n\nsudo apt-get install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes smplayer-skins<\/pre>\n<p>It will install the media player, skins, themes, and the YouTube Browser in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, or Ubuntu 12.04.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMPlayer, the graphical front-end of MPlayer, now is able to play non-protected blu-ray discs since release 14.3.0. While Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty still has the version 0.8.x, here&#8217;s how to install the latest build of this media player in Ubuntu via the PPA. Changes in SMPlayer 14.3: The control for fullscreen mode has been rewritten and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1055,475,855],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-play-blu-ray","tag-smplayer","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}