SMPlayer 24.5.0 Not Working Properly

[brispuss]

Downloaded both the installable and the portable versions of SMPlayer 24.5.0.

On starting SMPlayer get error message appearing -


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SMPlayer main window appears also (beneath the error message). Tried opening and playing videos, nothing happens. Videos don't play regardless if I use the installed or the portable versions of SMPlayer.

Running SMPlayer under Windows 7 64bit SP1.

Is SMPlayer (supposed to be) compatible with Windows 7? If so, then what is wrong with my SMPlayer installations?

[davexnet]

According to this, it's Windows 8 and above
https://www.smplayer.info/en/download-windows

[syberdude]

https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer/releases/download/v24.5.0/smplayer-24.5.0-win...6-unsigned.exe
(package for Windows XP and other 32-bit systems)

You can try this and see if it works. Seems like the developer of smplayer stopped 64bit versions being used for windows 7 a while back.

smplayer dev: "The mpv developers decided to stop supporting Windows 7, so now Windows 8 is required.
But you can still use the 32 bit package, it contains an old version of mpv."

This issue may be that developers decided to drop windows 7 support from MPV a while back which is what smplayer uses to drive its GUI, smplayer used to use mplayer back in the day and then moved onto MPV (used to be called mplayer2).

[brispuss]

Thanks for the comments, which confirms my suspicion that Windows 7 (64 bit) is no longer supported.

I prefer the 64 bit version of SMPlayer. So which is the last version of SMPlayer to support Windows 7 64 bit?

[syberdude]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/64bit/mpv-x86_64-20240728-gi...12.7z/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/64bit-v3/mpv-x86_64-v3-20240...12.7z/download

Try either of these builds to see which one works for you. Saw a post where someone said MPV (2024-07-28) is last build to support Windows 7 but I have no way to truly test this out. I don't know if you have a newer cpu that can allow v3 version to work on your computer, but the regular version should work if it allows Windows 7 with older CPUs.


Another person said that this build worked on windows 7 64bit for them. Try it out and see for yourself.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpv-player-windows/files/64bit/mpv-x86_64-20240310-gi...ff.7z/download


Hope some of this helps you out.

[brispuss]

Thanks for the suggestions!

Right now I'm having other issues with my computer, so I'll get to the SMPlayer issue when I can.