
Since libav/ffmpeg change their ABIs constantly, this allows us to have multiple versions of the library installed, since an older program trying to use a newer just plain "libavcodec" than it was built against would probably break. That why you see differently numbered versions of libavcodec if you add jessie-backports, such as libavcodec56 and libavcodec57. ackage=mpvĭebian versions of mplayer, VLC, and MPV are all using the "codec pack" that's in whatever version of libavcodec they depend on, which in turn is a result of whatever version of libav or the "real" ffmpeg they were build against.
#Smplayer old version how to#
Here's how to add the repo make sure to run all the commands as root or with sudo.
#Smplayer old version install#
These are all safe to install on Jessie-I know what I'm doing. It also has a current release SMPlayer 16.6.0 to let you use those, as well as some other packages you don't have to install, such as a new SMTube, ffmpeg, dvdstyler, the older compiz that let you burn up windows with fire, etc.just don't upgrade everything willy-nilly with my repo enabled-you just want to upgrade mplayer, smplayer, mpv, and optionally the icon theme package "smplayer-themes". I have an openSUSE build service repository which currently has mpv 18.0 and mplayer 1.3.0, both of which a newer SMPlayer can use as a backend. If you want, you could try newer software to see if that fixes the issue.


It's succeeded by the mpv player, which is also rather old in Jessie, along with SMPlayer 14.9.0

It could be a limitation of mplayer2, which is the only thing that'll provide the mplayer backend for the program in the stock Jessie repos, and it's a rather old and dead project.
