While there are several prior mentions of Mplayer around the forums there's no dedicated topic; the present one aims to solve that, as well as helping in figuring out the lineage of other related FLOSS media players.
MPlayer is a multi-platform open source media player. MPlayer can play virtually all video and audio formats, including popular formats such as DVD, Blu-ray, MKV & DivX/Xvid. MPlayer doesn't require any external codecs or installation.
MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available.
mpv is a GPLv2-licensed fork of mplayer2 and effectively its successor. Since June 2015, mpv starts the work to relicense as LGPLv2.1 or above.
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Info on Windows Mplayer releases can rapidly become as confusing as the remaining history of the player, so here's a list on what appears to be the official sources (currently carrying different releases):
- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ (upstream code source, v1.4 released 2019-04-18)
- http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/ (official Windows binaries svn-38151 released 2019-08-28)
- https://www.videohelp.com/software/MPlayer (includes Windows portable[?] v38152 released 2019-10-15)
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