This popular player works on Windows 7, XP, 2000, Vista and Linux OS, but not on Mac. So searching for ‘SMPlayer alternatives Mac’ is what Mac users are left with. Luckily there is Elmedia Player, a free video player for OS X that offers pretty much the same functionality SMPlayer does.
Description
This is simply the MPlayer binary wrapped inside a MacOS X application bundle, allowing for drag and drop, file association and opening videofiles directly from the Finder. It is based on the application bundle from MPlayerOSX and the mplayer binary compiled from [email protected] (09.09.2009):
svn co -r29662 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
This adaptation allows simple functionality like drag and drop, 'Open with', file associations and opening of the MPlayer program without a graphical user interface. The mplayer binary itself provides with 300 video codecs and 141 audio codecs, the ability to open a wide range of movie files, streaming protocols dvd disks. In addition to the usual mplayer keyboard commands, there is support for the Apple remote.
Previous versions (0.1-0.12) were based on the universal MPlayer binary distributed by Mohammad A. Haque.
The author of MPlayerOSX Extended (Adrian Stutz) provides a nice howto that goes through the all the steps of compiling mplayer with static libraries on MacOS X: Compile MPlayer with static libraries.
Download
Latest diskimage available for download: mplayer-0.21.dmg (10.5mb).
All versions available for download below.
All versions available for download below.