MPlayer
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
| Tags | multimedia Video Conversion Display |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Assembly C |
Recent releases
- 07 Nov 2007 02:55
Changes: Support for several codes, including many video game codecs, was added. Resolution switching and change of aspect ratio was fixed for several codecs. Blu-ray/HD-DVD type support for VC-1 in MPEG-PS/TS was added. Many stream types were added. Many other improvements and fixes were made.
- 23 Oct 2006 13:52
Changes: Native VC-1/WMV3, an On2 VP5/VP62 decoder, proper SSA/ASS subtitle rendering, and DVDnav support. Many bugfixes, enhancements, and speed-ups here and there.
- 21 Jun 2006 11:04
Changes: Several major issues issues were fixed. Support for compilation with a non-executable stack was introduced. Many decoders and demuxers were added or enhanced. Filters, drivers, and documentation were improved.
- 17 Apr 2005 01:36
Changes: Two security bugs in the MMST and RTSP code were fixed. MPEG output file support for easy VCD and DVD creation was added to MEncoder, along with multiple file encoding. The encoding documentation was greatly improved. Quite a few audio and video codecs were added, most notably snow, a next generation, wavelet-based video codec. Lots of bugfixes were made all over the code.
- 24 Dec 2004 05:21
Changes: This release updates and enhances documentation and translations, adds full X86-64 support, adds 18 new codecs, updates various codecs, adds special CPU saving options for low end machines, adds better support for MacOS X and Windows, and adds uncountable fixes and enhancements all over the place.
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Recent commentsRe: Did you guys research your software name before deciding on it?
I've seen projects had to change names because of legal issues in the past. It is probably a good idea to ensure this before even starting just to be on the safe side.
IANAL but consulting a lawyer often saves a lot of time and money.
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Hendry
Works wonder even on slower system
I can't resist to use MPlayer despite its lack of user interface, which I think is important to have a better user experience.
There are a lot of room for improvements, but considering the quality of the playback and other things, I never see anything better, especially when I have to run on a slower computer.
Way to go!
With the video conversion and capturing features, this project surely is a WINNER.
Re: A big thank you
> A quick comment to thanks everybody
> working on MPlayer! I use it a lot!
Yeah, same here. Can't imagine not using MPlayer! Continue your good work on MPlayer guys!
A big thank you
A quick comment to thanks everybody working on MPlayer! I use it a lot!
Thank you
It works great.
I am finally able to view my raw avi video files. I use these files when video editing.
Thanks!