{"id":7530,"date":"2018-02-18T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2018-02-18T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:41:52","slug":"smplayer-18-2-2-opacity-subtitles-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/smplayer-18-2-2-opacity-subtitles-background\/","title":{"rendered":"SMPlayer 18.2.2 Allows to Select Opacity of Subtitles Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/smplayer-icon.png\" alt=\"SMplayer\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SMPlayer media player 18.2.2 was released earlier today. It has been made into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~rvm\/+archive\/ubuntu\/smplayer\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a> for all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<p>SMPlayer 18.2.2 features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The option Open -> URL can now also load YouTube playlists.<\/li>\n<li>New option in Preferences -> Subtitles to select the opacity of the background of the subtitles (available when the &#8220;border style&#8221; is set to &#8220;opaque box&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>The options to select the preferred number of track for audio and subtitles are back.<\/li>\n<li>(mpv) Now the direct3d is the default video output for Windows, since some users reported problems with the gpu output.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-mac-skin-600x362.jpg\" alt=\"SMPlayer with Mac skin\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-mac-skin-600x362.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-mac-skin-400x241.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-mac-skin.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install SMPlayer 18.2.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04, and derivatives, do following steps to install or upgrade SMPlayer via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Search for and launch &#8220;terminal&#8221; from application launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm\/smplayer<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-ppa-600x99.jpg\" alt=\"Smplayer PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"99\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-ppa-600x99.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-ppa-400x66.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/smplayer-ppa.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade SMPlayer using Software Updater (or Update Manager):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smplayer-via-update-manager-600x412.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade smplayer\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smplayer-via-update-manager-600x412.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smplayer-via-update-manager-450x309.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/smplayer-via-update-manager.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run commands in terminal to install (or upgrade) the media player:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove SMPlayer, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove smplayer smtube smplayer-*<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA via &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility under Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMPlayer media player 18.2.2 was released earlier today. It has been made into PPA repository for all current Ubuntu releases. SMPlayer 18.2.2 features: The option Open -> URL can now also load YouTube playlists. New option in Preferences -> Subtitles to select the opacity of the background of the subtitles (available when the &#8220;border style&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[475],"class_list":["post-7530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-smplayer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530","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=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}