MPlayer OSX Extended - Revision 12

[giga Veteran]

MPlayer OSX Extended is an unofficial extension of the MPlayer OSX user interface.

Development on the official MPlayer OSX frontend has been slow in recent years and MPlayer OSX Extended tries to change that. The project is focused on a steady pace and aimed at making MPlayer OSX what it ought to be: A simple but powerful video player.

MPlayer OSX Extended is not aimed at long release cycles and maintaining stable branches. To keep development simple and to focus on bringing the project forward, there's only one branch and no release numbers. Just ongoing revisions, of which each should be better than the one before.

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Revision 12 has just been released, finally adding official Snow Leopard support.

Highlights

o Compatible with OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

o GUI and MPlayer are now 64bit compatible (~20-50% faster)

Changes

o Chapter support no longer limited to MKV

o Refine the behavior of the Apple Remote's combined skip/seek buttons

Bugfixes

o Fix two Snow Leopard issues

o Fix additional parameters being ignored in some cases (especially -vf-add/-af-add)

o Fix loading of subtitles with an apostrophe in their path

o Fix player window from appearing in fullscreen when using on top while playing

o Don't set the -monitoraspect MPlayer option (use Additional Parameters if needed)

o Fix fullscreen controls disappearing when being dragged

New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 18. October 2009 (r29777)

http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/

[rajputwarrior]

thanks giga

[saxondale.]

how does this stack up against VLC?

[furyshinobi]

  saxondale. said:

how does this stack up against VLC?

I say Mplayer OSX is heaps better than VLC imo since its lightweight and I do like the idea of controlling the playback of the video just by using the keyboard (Y)

[Phantom Helix]

under the hood VLC is far more powerful, The GUI however is laid out better

[Wannes]

Downloading this now and will see if it manages to kick VLC out of my Mac.

[Remote Sojourner]

Been using MPlayer on OSX, Linux and Windows and although VLC is there on my system, I never feel the need to use it. Mplayer trumps VLC on keyboard controls, speed ( and GUI only in case of MPlayer Extended) and media handling is on par with VLC

[drshdw]

Be sure to turn on -multithreaded playback.