Mplayer for Windows (CLI media player)

[Midas]

I just realized there's no topic for Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/), one of the longest in-development media toolsets available in several different platforms and underlying several other well known players, chiefly SMPlayer.

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.

@ http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/

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.

@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer

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)

Some related threads:

viewtopic.php?t=23815
viewtopic.php?t=23315
viewtopic.php?t=3343
viewtopic.php?t=1140

[billon]

Also
https://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/

[billon]

Related entries:
MPUI
rulesPlayer
MPlayer WW
MPUI-hcb
MPlayerGUI

[Midas]

Also
https://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/

True. Funnily enough, it was precisely the one online resource that prompted my OP.

Related entries: ...

Great input, thanks.

[Hangar0]

MPlayer sherpya Last Update: 2020-12-06
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32/
MPlayer for Win32/Win64, MPlayer Mencoder FFmpeg native win32/win64 builds, Brought to you by: sherpya
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mplaye ... es/MPlayer and MEncoder/r38203%2Bgb51b9bbd42/
work fine in WXP, Last Update: 2020-12-06
MPlayer-generic-r38203+gb51b9bbd42.7z 2020-12-06 12.0 MB

[Hangar0]

New MPlayer sherpya Last Update: 2021-10-24
"https://sourceforge.net/projects/mplaye ... 82bafdb12/"
MPlayer-generic-r38322+g682bafdb12.7z 2021-10-24 14.5 MB
work fine in WXP .. mplayer.exe -vo directx -ao win32 [file|URL|playlist|-]

[Hangar0]

"R.I.P. mplayer / mencoder" (LigH : .. I don't develop, I only let it compile in MABS. )
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=175848&page=3
ffmpeg & mplayer 32/64b

mplayer SVN r38435 (2023-07-17)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6elppf0r ... 17.7z/file

Code: Select all

Playing C:\Users\HanHanx\Downloads\Ghostbusters2.avi.
libavformat version 60.10.100 (internal)
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).
VIDEO:  [DX50]  640x360  24bpp  29.970 fps  1499.2 kbps (183.0 kbyte/s)
<vo_directx><ERROR>Your card doesn't support overlay
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 60.22.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
Clip info:
 Software: Digiarty_AVCore V2017_0101
 Title: Ghostbusters2
 Artist: Ghostbusters2
 Genre: Ghostbusters2
Load subtitles in C:\Users\HanHanx\Downloads\
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [mpg123] (afm=mpg123) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 128.0 kbit/4.17% (ratio: 16000->384000)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp3float] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio)
==========================================================================
AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 02ed87a0]using unscaled yuv420p -> bgra special converter
VO: [directx] 640x360 => 640x360 BGRA
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [directx] 640x360 => 640x360 BGRA
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
A: 492.8 V: 492.8 A-V: -0.002 ct:  0.001 14770/14770  6%  2%  2.9% 47 0
  =====  PAUSE  =====

[Hangar0]

mplayer 32/64b
New upload: mplayer SVN r38666 (2024-11-07) / ffmpeg N-117719-g9687f712c1-g2eb9c35010
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php? ... ost2009700