SMPlayer is built in Qt4 and it uses the MPlayer engine for video playback. It's one of the most powerful applications out there for watching DVDs, and it supports plenty formats like AVI, MKV, MPG, FLV.

Loosely speaking, in software terms, a wrapper is something that provides an alternate interface to another object. SMPlayer is an advanced multimedia player wrapped around MPlayer that provides a friendlier and more powerful front end to the underlying application. SMPlayer can play practically anything -- you can watch DVDs and VCDs, stream videos from a URL, or play audio CDs or MP3s.

Most KDE4 users know the default KDE media player Dragon player. It is simple and easy. In this post I will introduce you a new media player for KDE4 which intends to be simple in stylish way, more integration with KDE4 technologies like phonon and Nepomuk, and has more features than Dragon player. It is Banarang.

SMPlayer is a complete video player built in Qt 4.4.0 and based on the powerful, open-source MPlayer.

Now, the default Dragon Media Player of KDE have a serious competition in Bangarang. Dragon player is simple yet totally functional. On the other hand Bangarang is new, it's good and it is rapidly improving.

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer (video player), from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

Last week I made a review of the excellent media player for Linux and Windows Smplayer. This week the developer behind this great Mplayer front-end granted me an email interview

A week or so ago I became aware of a website called 'Resisting the Green Dragon' which was anti-environmentalist. In addition to being a writer, programmer, political junkie, and all round gadfly, I'm a lay priest, and as a lay priest what I was reading disturbed me at a very deep level.
So I wrote about it, and while it's not technically software, we all have to live on this planet!

For me the the best free media player for Windows and Linux is mplayer. It is not only a very fast player, but it also offers a ton of advanced options.