Now it’s not necessary anymore to use a special installer to install SMPlayer with mpv. The regular installer gives the possibility to install either mplayer or mpv.
Just click on “Playback components” and select mpv. An mpv build will be downloaded from the internet, so you need an internet connection to perform the installation.
If you don’t know what mpv is, please read this previous article:
SMPlayer with support for MPV is now available/
The following requires SMPlayer from SVN + mpv 0.7.0 + youtube-dl.
Visit http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/mpv to know how to get them. Windows users only need to download the package from that page, everything is included in the package.
Now you have to make this adjustments in the SMPlayer configuration. In Preferences -> Network, disable the option to use the internal support for Youtube, and enable the option to play videos from streaming sites:
Now go to Advanced -> Options for MPlayer/MPV and enter
--ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio
That’s all.
There’s a little problem, in this mode the reported duration of the video is wrong.