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mplayer2

mplayer2 is an advanced general-purpose video player. A fork of the original MPlayer.

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mplayer2 is an advanced general-purpose video player. A fork of the original MPlayer project, it contains significant further development and supports a number of features not available in other players.

Improvements over MPlayer
- Better pause handling
- In MPlayer executing any commands forced the player to unpause. This is no longer the case; in MPlayer2 you can change settings, seek, or run other commands while paused.
- Better Matroska support
- Easy to use multithreading support
- Much better support for VDPAU functionality on NVIDIA cards
- Support for precise seeks
- It's now possible to seek to any frame in the video; seeks are no longer necessarily limited to keyframes.
- Support for gettext-based translations... More Info »

MPV is an updated fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer.

Links to official mplayer2 sites

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Support for Multiple threads Portable Add a feature

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Discontinued Portable matroska mplayer multi-thread-support video-player

mplayer2 was added by Oracle in Dec 2011 and the latest update was made in Dec 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Oct 2016 There is a history of all activites on mplayer2 in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on mplayer2 or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

mplayer2 is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The project was abandoned and last activities date back to October 2013.

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VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

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MPV

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