Here's the new bz2: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smplayer-14.9.0.tar.bz2 Reproducible: Always
*smplayer-14.9.0 (24 Sep 2014) 24 Sep 2014; Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> +smplayer-14.9.0.ebuild: version bump I think you were confusing smplayer and smplayer2 there.
Indeed, even smplayer2 upstream says it's a dead project, and people should use mpv instead.