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MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here
bfree writes "Now on your favourite mplayer mirror you can find the 1.0Pre1 release of Mplayer! While work is underway on a second-generation version of Mplayer, I have already fired off emails to my Windows-based friends to let them now that the one player to rule them all now has (preview) support for their OS (I've only looked at a precompiled command line version on Windows but it handled everything I threw at it so far except DVDs). Big changes include Windows (via mingw32 and cygwin) ports, as well as Mac OS X (with extra-accurate Darwin timers). Now if only all those legal questions would go away, perhaps we could have a new killer Free Software application to save people installing Real, Quicktime and Windows Media Player (on Linux!?) or perhaps it's the one application to finally tell the **AA where the world wants to go today!"
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Unfortunately I only saw the Linux player there and source. I believe the OSX binary is still the July version. So there may be a delay before it is available.
OSX MPlayer
You mean something like this?.
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For Windows, I would suggest using Media Player Classic. It's made to look like the good, light and fast Media Player 6.4 but it includes support for all the new codecs (including an automatic search from the web if you feed it a video with uninstalled codec) and has a ton of nice features. The updates come rather regularly.
I don't know about this new mplayer on Windows, but the 0.9 at least was very slow on my computer. On FreeBSD it works fine.
Have a look at VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/ and don't be confused by the name :-)
If you want to see some windows-users' jaws drop, wait until one of them complains he cannot see some movie or the subtitles and show them one of the jukebox-on-a-CD linux distributions based on mplayer.
They boot, they play. No installing, no fuzz.
They can play anything mplayer 9x Can.
I'll start by giving the direct link to Zoom Player.
I'll follow up by shedding light on why we haven't heard about it:
"Zoom Player Standard remains Free for Non-Commercial use, while Zoom Player Professional comes in a Fully Functional (uncrippled) trial version and requires registration ($19.95 U.S.)."
Didn't you know? We're Free Software advocates, not free software advocates.
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You know the simultaneous best and worst thing about GNU/Linux/OSS etc is there is always another option...
There was a new beta of Totem released yesterday too - it's a GNOME 2 media player based on Xine (it doesn't attempt to reinvent the wheel). The author is also working on a Gstreamer back end for it.
Why do I like it? A quote on their webpage sums it up: "Totem is the only media player I've seen that doesn't attempt to have skins or look like a reject from a 1971 Kenwood catalog." For those of us who like Windows Media Player (pre 8) for its clean and consistent interface and were annoying that Linux doesn't have anything like it, Totem's your project.
Mplayer does some files better than Totem, but if you want to do more than "mplayer This.divx", check it out.
(standard "I have nothing to do with this project other than thinking it's really cool" disclaimer)
Throwaway Question that will Undoubtedly Get Dozens of Answers while the Rest of the Post Goes Unread: Why doesn't Mplayer disable XScreensaver while playing?)
rpm ftp://ftp2.nectec.or.th/pub/linux-distributions/L
and install the following:
- mplayer-common-0.90rc4-2_4tle
- mplayer-skin-BlueHeart-1.4-2
- mplayer-skin-Cyrus-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-hwswskin-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-neutron-1.4-2
- mplayer-skin-slim-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-xine-lcd-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-avifile-1.5-2
- mplayer-skin-CubicPlayer-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-gnome-1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-netscape4-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-proton-1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-xanim-1.5-2
- mplayer-skin-AlienMind-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-CornerMP-aqua-1.0-2
- mplayer-gui-0.90rc4-2_4tle
- mplayer-skin-MidnightLove-1.5-2
- mplayer-skin-plastic-1.1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-WindowsMediaPlayer6-1.2-2
- mplayer-0.90rc4-2_4tle
- mplayer-skin-CornerMP-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-default-1.6-2
- mplayer-skin-mentalic-1.1-2
- mplayer-skin-phony-1.0-2
- mplayer-skin-trium-1.0-2
- mplayer-tools-0.90rc4-2_4tle
You should then have my setup, which plays everything I have thrown at it.Put identity in the browser.
Nah, probably something like this Availiable for major destkop platforms.
It is called Media Player Classic. It's hosted on sourceforge and is open source! It also conviently doesn't include Quicktime or Real codec's but a quick search on google for Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative gives you those codecs! It can play everything provided you have the proper codec installed including DVDs so everyone on windows enjoy. Appropriate links follow below:
Media Player Classic
Real Alternative
Quicktime Alternative
mencoder http://some-stream/ -oac copy -ovc copy -o somefile
that works here quite nicely for saving video streams
Which is what I did, and it worked fine with Windows 98 and 95, after I just deleted a registry setting. However, 2000 and XP are, in my experience, a lot more tricky and recreated the registry setting on reloading and needed some DVD Genie style software to work. It seems later vers of Windows do more to stop you playing DVDs you legally own yet which the manufacturers have decided should be viewed only in certain countries.
The Mplayer software is absolutely brilliant, when running using the VESA driver (under bash), I managed to get my old Cel 500mhz laptop to play Dual-pass XVid at 30fps, without a problem. Plus the steady and all-in-one approach to drivers is a solution to the horrible driver mess that forms on any windows machine.
-Gwala
#!/bin/csh cat $0
I did a successful flash and now my LG DVD-ROM 8161B works perfectly! The auto-reset firmware sets the available number of region changes to the maximum every time I boot the computer. Neat!
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