SMPlayer has replaced Celluloid

One of the guys reported Celluloid played a DVD movie with audio but no video. Another report is audio OK but video corrupted:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=170900#p170900

I reported that audio and video both played OK for me, but last night was experimenting with a different version of Celluloid, and got that same corrupted video, even worse.

Yet, mpv plays video and audio properly. Celluloid is a GUI wrapper for mpv, so it should be just embedding mpv into its window and it should just work. So why is it so flakey?

SMPlayer is the same, a GUI wrapper for mpv, but it works properly, at least on my computer hardware.

SMPlayer uses the Qt5 GUI toolkit, whereas Celluloid uses GTK4; which means that choosing to have SMPlayer builtin instead of celluloid, all the Qt5 libraries will also be required. Which does bump the size of the .img download file somewhat, surprisingly not much.

It works nice for me, so you guys can also test it and report back!   

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