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MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here

Posted by timothy on from the everything-and-then-some dept.

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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  1. Re:What would make the ultimate player... by pbettendorff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have a look at VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/ and don't be confused by the name :-)

  2. Windows players... by xybe · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Other recent releases: Totem, GNOME 2 media player by Plug · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?)

  4. Re:legal questions by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Informative
    You should grab the package from LinuxTLE. If you are on RH8.0, it should drop in without a problem. It's produced and distributed by the Thai gov't, and comes precompiled with everything they can put in there. Add this line to your apt repositories if you're using apt-rpm.
    rpm ftp://ftp2.nectec.or.th/pub/linux-distributions/Li nux_TLE/ andaman/i386/TLE main updates
    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.
  5. Re:What would make the ultimate player... by xybe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nah, probably something like this Availiable for major destkop platforms.

  6. Windows already has an all in one media player by jkeyes · · Score: 5, Informative

    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