How to Watch Movies on the Steam Deck (Gaming Mode)

hello and welcome again to another video today we're going to be showing you how to watch your video files via gaming mode not just on desktop mode which is cool but gaming mode loads of people having problems with VLC player pretty much has given up same with me I thought there weren't any other options until I did a little searching for 10 minutes and guess what I got it to work so here is my guide very quick and easy guide to playing video files most likly movies on gaming mode okay here we go so the uh the app that we need is SM player as you can see I already have it installed on Steam now you won't find this on the steam store so we're going to have to get it by other means very very easy so all you have to do is turn on your steam deck and press the steam button go down to power and then we're going to select switch to desktop let it open up the desktop let it do whatever it needs to do and then clear your desktop and open the Discover app this will allow us to install applications from our app store on desktop mode and of course the app we're looking for is SM player I found it by just using um typing in media player now as you can see here no keyboard comes up this is a general problem a lot of people have nope never mind there it is I was going to say if your keyboard doesn't appear uh right away uh I recommend just closing steam which is always active in the bottom left there and then uh opening it again and it will just it just come back anyway we've now got our keyboard and ready to go so we're going to type in SM player of course I've already done this but I'm just going through these steps so you know exactly what to do and you'll see it there five star rating amazing free play media player virtually all video audio formats so far that has been my experience so again just download that and then you can launch it and check it out for yourself check that it works work it does MKV it does MP4 and then all you have to do to add it to steam because what we want to do we don't want to use it in desktop we want to use it in gaming mode just open Steam which should already be open at the bottom here click Library as you can see I've got it there but if you want to add it let go to add a game you have to do this in desktop mode you can just this in gaming mode so then add a non steam game then you'd search for it here or scroll down and find it it won't be here for me because obviously I've already added it to steam and then you'd press add selected program and then you X out and return to gaming mode we'll give it a second to do that now as you can see my SM player app there has some artwork it looks nice it looks legit that is not what yours will look like initially it will just be a Grade box with the words in it if you want to apply the artwork I recommend installing the plugin with Dey loader theme DB and that will allow you to change the artwork and make it look legit here we are back in gaming mode now and then of course I've got it here but you would have to go to steam library and you'd find it in in here and you'd open it and then of course it would be on your homepage and then we just open the application as you can see it launches perfectly and initially you won't have any control of the app the mouse won't work none of the trick nothing will nothing will make you control the app in gaming mode and you're probably asking well come on how do I fix it then simple really really simple just going to change the lighting there uh all you got to do is press the steam button go to controller settings controller settings again then you want to click in the box where the layout is and just scroll down and select keyboard W ASD if you can I actually zoom in here keyboard WD and mouse and then just press X to apply layout and now your controller will act like a mouse and keyboard because that's what it responds to right then when you're back in the app you can then press open file if it will let me sorry about the camera quality there it's not liking it when I'm moving the steam deck around so sorry open file and here you would just look for where your movies are mine are in videos and movies I have two test files here so we're going to load up some of the Evil Dead just to show you that everything works fine let's turn that up and as you can see you can instantly skip through you can press the full screen button you can leave it and trust me the movies look great they look amazing so fre Focus there with the camera for you obviously depends on the quality of movie you're playing of course as you can see I've got subtitles enabled so you can literally just left trigger and then you can edit the subtitles and everything whatever you want to do yeah there you go guys that's it all you got to do do is install SM player and um add it to steam that's it and we'll just come out that and anytime you want to load up one of your movies it's stored on your deck it's there ready to go don't even have to do desktop mode thanks guys

Channel: Ragnar Crumpets

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Length: 6min 9sec (369 seconds)

Published: Sun May 12 2024