Quick tip. SMPlayer is a free and open source cross platform GUI for MPlayer, which is a free and open source media player for major operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (unfortunately SMPlayer cannot run on Mac OS X even though MPlayer is available for this operating system). Some features of SMPlayer are able to play major audio/video format, playlist, remember playback setting of all files you play, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, and many more.

Unfortunately I was unable to get SMPlayer to play on Windows 7 after some time, maybe because I messed up with MPlayer setting (or Windows). After investigating, I found that it was the Freetype support option had caused MPlayer to crash. In the error log, MPlayer crashed after loading font and the crash was random. If you are unable to get SMPlayer to play on Windows 7, you can follow this instruction, and hopefully you can get SMPlayer to work on Windows 7 again.

Disabling Freetype font support on SMPlayer

1. Run SMPlayer. Go to ‘Options’ > ‘Preferences’. Then, you need to navigate to ‘Subtitles’ (1). Unselect ‘Freetype support’ (2). Press ‘OK’ (3) and restart SMPlayer.