Although the king of players is VLC Player, the truth is that there are still very good multimedia players that are just as light or more than VLC and that work on Ubuntu. Among these players we find SMPlayer, a player that we have been talking about for a long time but now we can say that its improvements are worth mentioning.
SMPlayer is a player that is not only capable of playing current video and sound formats, it will also be able to use subtitle files and even Youtube videos.
Among its novelties, SMPlayer has included the option to view YouTube videos and even search for them through the application itself, without using the web browser. We can also use skins or skins to customize our application and even, through a plugin, we can make SMPlayer able to download subtitles without having to do it manually. Like VLC, SMPlayer is multiplatform and Open Source, but unfortunately we cannot find it in the Ubuntu repositories, so for its installation we have to use external repositories, although it is easy to do.
Installing SMPlayer on Ubuntu 15.10
As we have said before, to install SMPlayer we have to open a terminal and write the following:
sudo add-apt-repositorio ppa:rvm/ smplayer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes smplayer-skins MPV
With this we will not only have the player but everything necessary to use skins, YouTube and subtitles.
Conclusion
More and more apps are using the Internet to support themselves. SMPlayer is one of them that thanks to La Red can offer Youtube videos, something that many users see with good eyes and that possibly other players begin to implement in their programs due to the success that it has. But still, SMPlayer is a very light, powerful and stable player, something that many users will see favorably for their Ubuntu.