MPlayer
Sign in to saveMPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for legacy systems such as OS/2 and AmigaOS were previously available, but are no longer actively maintained. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available. Versions for the Wii Homebrew Channel and Amazon Kindle have also been developed.
Key facts
- Software.name
- MPlayer
- Software.logo
- MPlayer.svg
- Software.screenshot
- MPlayer.png
- Software.caption
- MPlayer on Linux using the gMplayer front-end
- Software.developer
- MPlayer team
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.language
- English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish
- Software.genre
- Media player
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-or-later
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free and open-source software
- Official website
- mplayerhq.hu
- Image
- MPlayer.png
- Has use
- media player software
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- user manual URL
- www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/documentation.html
- Commons gallery
- MPlayer
- inception
- 2000-09-22
- Commons category
- MPlayer
- software version identifier
- 1.5
- source code repository URL
- git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git
- operating system
- AmigaOS 4
- programmed in
- C
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- contributing factor of
- mpv
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Video acceleration
- Capabilities and classification
- Media formats
- Available plugins
- {{Anchor|GNOME MPlayer|gMplayer|}}Interface and graphical front-ends
- Forks
- Legal controversy
- Current status
- See also
- References
- External links
MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for legacy systems such as OS/2 and AmigaOS were previously available, but are no longer actively maintained. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available. Versions for the Wii Homebrew Channel and Amazon Kindle have also been developed.
==History== Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999. The first version was titled mpg12play v0.1 and was initially prototyped using libmpeg3 from Cinelerra-HV. After mpg12play v0.95pre5, the code was merged with an AVI player based on avifiles Win32 DLL loader to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MPlayer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.