Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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!"

4 of 363 comments (clear)

  1. What would make the ultimate player... by Channard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. would be a feature that could play DVDs from any region on Windows regardless of how many changes the OS thinks you've got left. Currently, even if your DVD-Rom is region-free, Windows XP and 2000 are real swines when it comes to standing in the way of region-free playback.

  2. legal questions by Mosu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    mplayer will never be free of legal questions. Too many libs are bundled with it, and I for one am glad about it! Compiling multimedia applications can be a major pain in the youknowwhat with all those library dependencies. Mplayer bundles the more important libs (liba52, libavcodec aka ffmpeg, and now even faad2). This makes the build process far more reliable and definitely easier.

    But what would mplayer look like without all those libs? Well just take a look at the mplayer versions shipped with major distros. They're crippled, can't play most popular/modern files, and almost everyone has to download other uncrippled binaries or compile from source. I fully understand why no mplayer developer, me included, cares about legality.

  3. Re:Other recent releases: Totem, GNOME 2 media pla by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mplayer does some files better than Totem, but if you want to do more than "mplayer This.divx", check it out.

    Ah, but you forget about MPlayer G2, which will be stripped of all front-end nonsense and instead implement all kinds of hooks that will allow people to built however vast frontends for it.

    Why doesn't Mplayer disable XScreensaver while playing?)

    For the same reason it doesn't disable, I don't know, PINE or Mozilla. XScreensaver is just an application that happens to be running at the same time, not a standard in power saving. MPlayer does, however, disable DPMS monitor power saving which is what you should be using if you really want power saving instead of fancy pictures showed when nobody's looking anyway.

    --
    i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer
  4. Re:first post by Telex4 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm confused... help me out here.

    I installed xine-lib, and gxine, and kmplayer. I haven't installed xine-ui.

    I have Xine installed.... without the Xine gui.

    I have two different frontends to Xine.

    So why do you say:
    Until you can seperate the gui out of Xine easily at compile time... Xine cant even compete....

    And how do you get moderated up for it?
    By the way, I prefer mplayer :)