There are no native codecs for HD video playback on Linux kernel-based operating systems. Of course, it is possible to run windows codecs in Linux via Wine , but this is not quite the solution that users of these operating systems expect.
But as it turns out, you can set the SMPlayer multimedia player in such a way that you can watch HD video without “lags” not only in Windows.
In fact, SMPlayer is a graphical shell for Mplayer, which has a huge amount of features.
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The strengths of SMPlayer:
SMPlayer supports a huge number of formats, including Audio CD, DVD, Video CD, AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Ogg Vorbis, NUT, NSV, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM (. cpk) format, RoQ, PVA and Matroska recorded with video codecs DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Sorenson, WMV, RealVideo, x264, H.264, MP3, Musepack, Vorbis, RealAudio, AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital), AAC (MPEG-4 audio), QuickTime, VIVO audio, WMA, and others.
“Picture” video can be adjusted by changing brightness, gamma, contrast, saturation, and color tones.
You can adjust the display of subtitles. You can change the subtitle font, size, position and color.
It is possible to control several video and audio tracks. SMPlayer “understands” audio tracks as separate files.
Use the mouse wheel to easily rewind videos.
You can slow down or speed up the video a little.
You can apply 7 filters to the video: deinterlacing, postprocessing, noise removal, karaoke filter, striping, blurring, and sharpening (their number can increase from version to version of this player).
SMPlayer allows you to choose demultiplexer audio and video codecs.
Installation
For Windows you can download SMPlayer version from the project official repository: www.smplayer.info/ru/downloads.
There is a special repository for Ubuntu OS that will allow to automatically update the application to a newer version. You can connect this repository by executing 2 commands in sequence:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes
After successful installation, SMPlayer can be loaded by going to the Gnome Applications→Audio and Video→SMPlayer menu.
Smooth playback of HD video in SMPlayer
There are special drivers for nvidia or ATI graphics cards, but not so good for Intel embedded cards. Of course, there are also special drivers (vaapi) but they do not always help Linux users. For example, on the Intel Atom no driver helps at all. Only manual tuning of SMPlayer enabled smooth HD video playback on Intel Atom.