#273 SMPlayer 6.7 portable: Many problems under W98SE

[Rekrul]

I recently download mplayer for some videos that nothing else would play and it works great, but I wanted a front end for it. I downloaded the latest portable version of SMPlayer because I prefer programs that don't make changes to my system. Unfortunately, although it works, it has numerous problems.

1. When using the File > Open menu item and you enter a directory with more than a couple video files, SMPlayer goes off into limbo. The pointer changes to an hourglass but nothing ever appears in the window. For the first several seconds, it can be closed normally through the Task Manager. If you let it sit for a couple minutes, the Task Manager will report that the program isn't responding and you have to kill it.

2. Once you get a video loaded, either by dropping one on the window or by going to a directory with only a couple videos in it, most of the controls are non-functional. The volume slider visibly moves, but the volume is always at 100%. Clicking the speaker icon to mute the volume doesn't work either. The seek bar moves as the video plays, but attempting to move it manually has no effect, it just jumps back to the previous position. Pause doesn't work, either by using the spacebar or the pause button. The stop button works, but causes mplayer to crash and then SMPlayer reports that mplayer "finished unexpectedly" with code 62097.

3. If I close SMPlayer while a video is playing, it reports that mplayer has crashed.

I know not many people use Windows 98 anymore, but for the time being, it's what I have. SMPlayer says it works on 98, so I'm just reporting my experiences with it.

[Ricardo Villalba]

Windows 98 is not officially supported.

Anyway maybe you can make it work as explained here:
http://smplayer.berlios.de/forums/viewtopic.php?id=95

[Ricardo Villalba]

Your mail is not working, so I'll respond here:

Message body follows:

El Sábado, 11 de Abril de 2009 19:27, Rekrul escribió:
> Message body follows:
>
> "Windows 98 is not officially supported."
>
> Well, the SMPlayer homepage doesn't list the system
> requirements and when I went to the SourceForge project
page;
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/smplayer/
>
> It lists Windows 98 as one of the supported OS's;
>
> "Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows
> (95/98/NT/2000/XP), Linux"

I fixed this. Now it says "32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP)".

> Since I've had problems in the past when running software
> that no longer supports Windows 98, I always do my best to
> check the system requirements first. That's also one of
the
> reasons I prefer no-install software; There's less of a
> chance of it messing something up.
>
> "Anyway maybe you can make it work as explained here:
> http://smplayer.berlios.de/forums/viewtopic.php?id=95"
>
> Thanks, I'll give it a try. I did try replacing the
mplayer
> binary with the one I've been using (an older version),
but
> SMPlayer didn't work at all with that one. I'll try
> downloading one of the recommended versions.

I would like to try to fix the issues with Win98 and maybe
even provide a
package which works "out of the box", but Win98 runs
extremely slow on
Virtuabox, also it seems difficult to share files between
the OS host and the
OS guest. So under these conditions is very hard to work.

--
rvm