SmoothVideo Project (SVP) 4.7.302-1

SmoothVideo Project, or SVP, makes video look smoother by turning ordinary 24 or 30 fps footage into 60 fps or more while it plays.

It works inside the player you already use, such as MPC-HC, mpv or VLC, rather than replacing it.

SVP 4 for Windows costs 24.99 dollars for a lifetime licence, and the 30-day trial lets you judge the effect on your own screen first.

What SVP Actually Does

Films are shot at 24 frames per second, which is why fast pans can judder or blur on a computer screen. SVP looks at each pair of frames, works out how things moved, and draws new frames in between - the same motion smoothing many modern TVs have built in.

The result is fluid, lifelike motion, especially in sports, nature footage and anime. Some people dislike the "soap opera" look it can give to films, which is exactly why the free trial matters.

SVP is not a player itself. It sits in the system tray and hooks into compatible players as soon as a video starts.

Key Features

• 60, 120 or 144 fps and beyond. Match the frame rate to your monitor, including high-refresh gaming screens.
• RIFE AI interpolation. An optional neural-network engine that draws cleaner in-between frames, but needs a strong graphics card for real-time playback.
• NVIDIA acceleration. Uses NVIDIA Optical Flow on recent GeForce cards, and TensorRT to speed up RIFE on RTX cards.
• 4K and HDR. Works with high-resolution and HDR video, as long as your processor keeps up.
• Online videos. The SVPtube add-on opens YouTube and other site videos in a supported player, since SVP cannot work inside a web browser.
• Convert and stream. Save a smoothed copy of a video, or send it to the SVPlayer app on a phone, tablet or TV.

Players It Works With

SVP plugs into most popular players. These are the main ones:

• Windows players. MPC-HC, MPC-BE and PotPlayer.
• Cross-platform players. mpv and the 64-bit 3.0 versions of VLC, where frame rate conversion is limited to three times the original.
• Media centres. Kodi and several others.

It cannot work with copy-protected playback, such as the Netflix app or PowerDVD. SVP and the player must also run under the same user account, so do not start one of them as administrator.

What Your PC Needs

SVP 4 for Windows now needs Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Version 4.6.296 was the last one for Windows 7, 8 or 32-bit systems.

Most of the work falls on the processor, so bigger videos need a faster CPU. The developer recommends roughly a 4-core Core i5 or Ryzen 3 for 1080p, and a 6-core Core i7 or 8-core Ryzen 7 for 4K.

RIFE is far more demanding and runs on the graphics card: smooth 1080p at 60 fps needs around an RTX 3080, or an RTX 3060 with TensorRT. To check which card and driver you have, use GPU-Z.

What Is New in 4.7.302

Version 4.7.302, released in August 2025, is the current Windows release.

• Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit only. Older Windows and 32-bit systems stay on 4.6.296.
• Refreshed interface. A newer toolkit with many small fixes and a dark theme.
• Fewer crashes. Fixed a possible SVP crash while playing in mpv.

The Mac and Linux versions have since moved to 4.7.325, adding macOS 27 support and fixes for newer VapourSynth versions. Those changes do not affect Windows.

Price, Trial and Other Platforms

A licence costs 24.99 dollars once, with free updates for life, and runs on one Windows or Mac computer at a time. You can move it to another PC, extra computers cost 15 dollars each, and there is a 15-day money-back guarantee.

The macOS version needs macOS 13 or later, and the Linux version now needs a licence too. SVPlayer for Android, iPhone and TV boxes is a separate app, sold separately.

For Windows, the online installer downloads only the parts you pick, while the offline package installs without an internet connection. Extras such as RIFE, TensorRT and VLC support are added later from the SVP menu.

SVP 3: The Old Free Version

The download list also keeps SVP 3.1.7, the last free version, from before the switch to a paid licence. It is long frozen, has none of the AI or NVIDIA features, and only makes sense on an older setup.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

The tell is your TV: if it already has motion smoothing (often called Motion Plus, Motionflow or TruMotion), try that first for anything you play through it. If you never liked that effect on a TV, SVP will not change your mind.

If you only want to smooth a few clips rather than every video you watch, a one-off conversion may do. NVEnc can generate in-between frames on RTX cards for free, while the paid Topaz Video adds AI upscaling too.

For a better picture without changing the frame rate, the free madVR and MPC Video Renderer improve scaling and HDR in DirectShow players.

More players are in the media players category.

Quick questions

Download SmoothVideo Project 4.7.302 and try it for 30 days, or tell us how you got on if you have used it before.