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SMTHPlayer v0.12 brings native AAC support. This means that you don't need faad to manage AAC - just to play it, and that SMTHPlayer is faster than before!

SMTHPlayer v0.8 will be released soon! It contains an important fix about a CustomAttributes issue with some csm manifests.

In the meanwhile, I've some good news about DRM support and AAC native support.

I've just found a way to manage AAC natively, so it's quite probable that there will be no need of FAAD for audio decoding in the future.
This means that SMTHPlayer will be significantly faster, more independent and its dependencies a little bit lighter.... read more

The next version of SMTHPlayer will have a new function that allows to control MPlayer with pipes.
The advantage is that MPlayer will not close if it hasn't enough bufferized video, but will pause showing a "Buffering..." message until it has enough bufferized video to continue the playback.
To see it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgGHUwvsuOc

This version fixes some bugs and tries a first approach with the adaptive smooth streaming. See the README for details.

Some servers has just changed the way audio chunks are requested by adding a track name. Before this change they were requested in this way:

QualityLevels({bitrate},{CustomAttributes})/Fragments(audio={start time})

now they are requested in this way (track name is just an example):

Name="track_1"
Url="QualityLevels({bitrate},{CustomAttributes})/Fragments(track_1={start time})"

I've already fixed this and I will relase soon the next version of smthplayer that also brings adaptive streaming support,
Have fun,
Matteo

I've found a way to obtain an ADAPTIVE smooth streaming with smthplayer!!!

It works perfectly with H.264, I have only to solve some problems with fullscreen in mplayer (in Linux there is an easy way to solve the problem, but I have to found a cross-platform solution).

There are also some issues with the VC1 format...ffvc1 has many problems when video changes quality, so I have to use wmvvc1dmo, that plays the video in a quite good way, although it shows some horizonal lines for a microsecond when video changes quality...... read more