Developer(s) | MPlayer team |
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Initial release | 2000; 19 years ago |
Stable release | 1.4.0[1][2](April 18, 2019; 52 days ago)[±] |
Preview release | SVN snapshot [±] |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Available in | English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish |
Type | Media player |
License | GNU GPLv2[3] |
Website | mplayerhq.hu |
Media Player. Release notes. Media Player Module for Moodle 1.9. The /mplayer/ directory and all its contents to ***YOUR MOODLE***/mod/. MPlayer for Windows® provides the binary builds of MPlayer (a free, open source media player, for more info, check the 'Features' section below) and MEncoder for Windows®.
MPlayer is a free and open-sourcemedia player software. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available.[4] Versions for the WiiHomebrew Channel[5] and Amazon Kindle[6] have also been developed.
- 4Media formats
History[edit]
Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999.[7] The first version was titled mpg12play v0.1 and was hacked together in a half-hour using libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com. After mpg12play v0.95pre5, the code was merged with an AVI player based on avifile's Win32DLL loader to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.[8] Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programmers, in the beginning mostly from Hungary, but later worldwide.
Alex Beregszászi has maintained MPlayer since 2003 when Gereöffy left MPlayer development to begin work on a second generation MPlayer. The MPlayer G2 project was abandoned, and all the development effort was put on MPlayer 1.0.[9]
MPlayer was previously called 'MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux' by its developers but this was later shortened to 'MPlayer - The Movie Player' after it became commonly used on other operating systems.
Video acceleration[edit]
There are various SIP blocks that can accelerate video decoding computation in several formats, including PureVideo, UVD, QuickSync Video, TI Ducati and others.
Capabilities and classification[edit]
MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats,[10] namely any format supported by FFmpeg libraries, and can also save all streamed content to a file locally.
A companion program, called MEncoder, can take an input stream, file or a sequence of picture files, and transcode it into several different output formats, optionally applying various transforms along the way.
Media formats[edit]
MPlayer being run via command line in Microsoft Windows.
MPlayer can play many formats, including:[11]
- Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs, Blu-ray discs
- Container formats: 3GP, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia, Bink
- Video formats: Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, Bink
- Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, FLAC, Intel Music Coder, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Musepack, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA, Bink
- Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, Sami, SRT, SubViewer, VOBsub, VPlayer
- Image formats: BMP, JPEG, MNG, PCX, PTX, TGA, TIFF, SGI, Sun Raster
- Protocols: RTP, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, MMS, Netstream (mpst://), SMB, ffmpeg:// (Uses FFmpeg's protocol implementations)
MPlayer can also use a variety of output driver protocols to display video, including VDPAU, the X video extension, OpenGL, DirectX, Direct3D, Quartz Compositor, VESA, Framebuffer, SDL and rarer ones such as ASCII art (using AAlib and libcaca) and Blinkenlights. It can also be used to display TV from a TV card using the device tv://channel, or play and capture radio channels via radio://channel|frequency.
Since version 1.0RC1, Mplayer can decode subtitles in ASS/SSA subtitle format, using libass.
Available plugins[edit]
- XMMS plugins
Interface and graphical front-ends[edit]
Gnome-MPlayer v1.0.9 on GNOME
Like GStreamer, MPlayer has only command line interface and there are a couple of front-ends available, which use GUI widgets of GTK, Qt or some other widget library. When not using these front-ends, mplayer can still display video in a window (with no visible controls on it), and is controlled using a keyboard.
- GTK-based are gmplayer (official)[12][13] and Gnome-MPlayer
- Qt-based are SMPlayer and KMPlayer, among others.
- Cocoa-based are MPlayer OS X Extended and MPlayerX[14]
Forks[edit]
mplayer2 was a GPLv3-licensed fork of MPlayer, largely the work of Uoti Urpala, who was excluded from the MPlayer project in May 2010 due to 'long standing differences' with the MPlayer Team.[15] The main changes from MPlayer were improved pause handling, Matroska support, seeking, and support for Nvidia VDPAU; enabling multithreading by default; and the removal of MEncoder, the GUI interface, and various video drivers and bundled libraries, such as ffmpeg, relying instead on shared libraries.[16][17] The developers also indicated intentions to enable MPlayer2 to use libav as an alternative to ffmpeg.[18] The first release, 2.0, was published in March 2011. There have been no subsequent stable releases.
mpv[19] is a GPLv2-licensed fork of mplayer2 and effectively its successor. Since June 2015, mpv starts the work to relicense as LGPLv2.1 or above.[20]
MPlayer, MPlayer2 and mpv all use incompatible EDL formats.[21][22][23]
Legal controversy[edit]
In January 2004, the MPlayer website was updated with an allegation that the Danish DVD player manufacturer, Kiss Technology, were marketing DVD players with firmware that included parts of MPlayer's GPL-licensed code. The implication was that Kiss was violating the GPL, since Kiss did not release its firmware under the GPL license. The response from the managing director of Kiss, Peter Wilmar Christensen, countered that the similarities between the two pieces of code indicate that the MPlayer team had in fact used code from Kiss's firmware.[24] However, the Kiss DVD player, released in 2003, used a subtitle file format that is specific to MPlayer, which was designed by an MPlayer developer in 2001.[24]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
- ^http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
- ^http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html
- ^'Index of /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer'. Ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^Erant. 'libdi and the DVDX installer'. Hackmii.com. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^'kindlebrew'. Gitorious. Archived from the original on 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^'The XAnim Home Page'. Xanim.polter.net. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^History
- ^'MPlayer - The Movie Player'. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
- ^'Codec Status Table'. Mplayerhq.hu. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^'MPlayer Features'. Mplayerhq.hu. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^'README'. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^'What about the GUI?'. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^'MPlayer OSX Extended'. 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
- ^'Is MPlayer2 a viable fork of MPlayer?'. Phoronix. 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
- ^'mplayer2 differences from mplayer'. 2011. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^'Did You Know there was a Fork of MPlayer?'. ostatic.com. 2011-03-22. Retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ^'Libav going to be default provider for your codec experience (comment)'. January 16, 2013.
- ^'mpv.io'. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^'Possible LGPL relicensing'. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
- ^'3.7. Edit Decision Lists (EDL)'. Archived from the original on 2015-07-17. Retrieved 21 Jul 2015.
- ^'EDL: add support for new EDL file format'. MPlayer2. Archived from the original on 16 Mar 2014.
- ^'EDL files'. mpv. 25 Oct 2014. Retrieved 21 Jul 2015.
- ^ ab'MPlayer - The Movie Player'. 2004-01-10. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to MPlayer. |
Wikibooks has more on the topic of: MPlayer |
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MPlayer&oldid=901082938'
Original author(s) | MPlayer and mplayer2 developers |
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Developer(s) | Community |
Initial release | August 7, 2013; 5 years ago[1] |
Stable release | 0.29.1 (October 2, 2018; 8 months ago[2])[±] |
Repository | |
Written in | C, Objective-C, Lua[3] |
Engine | |
Operating system | BSD, Linux, macOS, Windows |
Platform | ARM, PowerPC, x86 / IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS architecture[4] |
Size | Source code: 2.9 MB(tar.gz) |
Type | Media player |
License | GPLv2+, parts under LGPLv2.1+, some optional parts under GPLv3[5] |
Website | mpv.io |
mpv is media player software, based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It is free and open-source software released under a mix of licenses including GNU General Public License version 2 or later (GPLv2+), with parts under GNU Lesser Public License version 2.1 or later (LGPLv2.1+), and some optional parts under GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
It runs on several operating systems, including the Unix-like variants Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), Linux, and macOS, and on the non-Unix Windows, along with having an Androidport called mpv-android. It is cross-platform, running on ARM, PowerPC, x86 / IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS architecture.[4]
- 2Changes from MPlayer
History[edit]
mpv was forked in 2012 from mplayer2, which was forked in 2010 from MPlayer.[6] The motive for the fork was to encourage developer activity by removing unmaintainable code and dropping support for very old systems. As a result, the project had a large influx of contributions.[7]
Since June 2015, the project's source code is in the process of being relicensed from GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) or later to GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1) or later to allow using mpv as a library in more applications.[8]
Changes from MPlayer[edit]
mpv had several notable changes[9] since it was forked from MPlayer, the most user visible being the addition of an on-screen-controller (OSC) minimal GUI integrated with mpv to offer basic mouse-controllability. This was intended to make interaction easier for new users and to enable precise and direct seeking.
- Video websites
- By using youtube-dl, mpv natively supports playback of high-definition video (HD) content and audio on YouTube and over 1000 other supported sites.[10] This allows mpv to replace site-specific video players based on Adobe Flash or HTML5.
- High quality video output
- mpv includes a customizable video output driver based on OpenGL[11] as well as the new Vulkan API,[12] which supports over 100 options for controlling playback quality, including the use of advanced upscaling filters, color management, and customizable pixel shaders.[13]
- Improved client API
- Beyond working as a stand-alone media player, mpv is designed to be used directly by other applications through a library interface called
libmpv
. This required making all mpv code thread safe. An example of an application which uses libmpv is Plex.[14] This form of player control, along with a JSON IPC mechanism, replaces MPlayer's 'slave mode'.
- Encoding subsystem
- mpv includes a new video encoding mode that can be used to save files being played under different formats. This allows mpv to work as a transcoder, supporting many video formats.[15] This feature serves as a direct replacement for the MEncoder component of MPlayer, which was a separate program rather than being built into the player.
- Lua scripting
- mpv's behavior and functions are customizable via use of small programs written in the Lua scripting language, which can be used for tasks like cropping video, providing a graphical user interface (GUI) or automatically adjusting the display's refresh rate.[16]
removed functions[edit]
- all kind of support for VCD discs
Interface and graphical front-ends[edit]
Like the original MPlayer, mpv is still primarily a command-line application although it has a more advanced user interface than MPlayer that can use not only the keyboard but also the mouse for mpv’s on screen controller (OSC). However, this OSC is still not a full-featured GUI, and there are a number of front-ends available, which use GUI widgets of Qt, GTK, or some other widget toolkit to give mpv a more complete graphical interface.
The following are all open source front-ends of mpv (based on 'libmpv' or the command-line version of mpv) which try to provide more features and more user-friendly interface than mpv, and/or better integration with various operating systems or desktop environments.
- Baka MPlayer - media player on Windows, Linux, and macOS although macOS version requires user to compile from source, with Qt5 widgets, written in C++. Its main goal is uncluttered, simple design. Its development stalled in January 2017 in favor of another mpv frontend by the same developers, Mochi Player, which is not quite finished yet.
- Deepin Movie - for Linux - Written by and default video player for the Chinese Deepin distro and desktop environment with Qt5 widgets, written in C++.
- Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) - for Linux - based on GTK, written in C. Its goal is to be a simple GTK-based graphical interface for mpv that meets the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
- IINA - macOS 10.10+ media player with native macOS Cocoa interface, written in Swift. It is a full-featured native macOS graphical interface for mpv that makes use of new features in the most recent versions of macOS. mpv config file and script system are also integrated.
- Kawaii-Player - Linux and Windows 10 - media player and media server with Qt5 widgets, written in Python 3. Its goal is to not just be a multimedia player but also an audio/video library manager and portable media server and torrentstreaming server/player.
- Media Player Classic Qute Theater (mpc-qt) - Linux and Windows media player with Qt5 widgets, written in C++. Its goal is to reproduce and ultimately improve upon the functionality of Media Player Classic Home Cinema (mpc-hc), a Windows-only program, as a cross-platform mpv-based multimedia player that also works on Unix-like operating systems like Linux.
- mpv-android - Android media player with native Android interface, written in Kotlin. Its goal is to be a fully functional, full-featured port of mpv (which primarily targets desktop operating systems) to the mobile operating system Android.
- mpv.net - Windows media player with native Windows interface, based on Microsoft .NET Framework, written in C#. Its goal is to provide the standard mpv OSC interface on Windows along with a customizable Windows context menu, C# scripting, and a Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) for addons.
- OvoPlayer - Linux and Windows music player that supports many backends, based on LCLwidgetsets, written in Pascal. Its goal is to be a flexible audio player that supports as many audio engine backends like mpv as possible.
- SMPlayer - full-featured, cross-platform and skinable with advanced features and YouTube and Chromecast support that can use MPlayer or mpv. Available for MS Windows, Linux and macOS, written in C++ with Qt4/Qt5
- Sugoi Player - media player on Windows (that might work on Linux and macOS but those are untested) forked from Baka MPlayer, with Qt5 widgets, written in C++. It aims to improve upon and continue development of an mpv frontend based on Baka MPlayer, since Baka MPlayer’s development stalled in January 2017.
- xt7-player-mpv - Linux media player with Qt5 or Qt4 widgets, written in Gambas 3 (a dialect of BASIC). Its goal is usability, and a variety of extra features like YouTube and SHOUTcast integration, media tagging, library and playlist management, as well as adding more features beyond that.
See also[edit]
- FFmpeg - recommended decoding library for mpv
- Libav - alternative decoding library for mpv
- libavcodec – API which mpv uses for decoding
References[edit]
- ^wm4 (2013-08-07). 'Release 0.1'. MPV.
- ^'Release v0.29.1'. mpv-player/mpv (source code repository). GitHub.
- ^'mpv-player', Analysis Summary, Open Hub, retrieved 2016-08-11
- ^ abDebian - Details of package mpv
- ^'Copyright'. mpv. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
- ^'MPV, A New Fork Of MPlayer/MPlayer2'. Phoronix. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^'Contributors to mpv-player/mpv'. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^wm4. 'LGPL relicensing (#2033)'. mpv-player/mpv (source code repository). GitHub. Archived from the original on 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
... GPL-incompatible dependencies such as OpenSSL are a big issue for library users, even if the library user is ok with the GPL. ...
- ^'list of changes from MPlayer'. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^'youtube-dl: Supported sites'. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^Sneddon, Joey (2017-09-13). 'MPV 0.27 Released with Minor Fixes, New OpenGL Options'. OMG! Ubuntu!. Ohso Ltd. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
- ^Larabel, Michael (2017-12-25). 'MPV Player 0.28 Adds Initial Vulkan Support'. Phoronix. Phoronix Media. Archived from the original on 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- ^'mpv manual (opengl video output driver section)'. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^'Introducing the Plex Media Player'. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
- ^'mpv manual (encoding section)'. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^'User Scripts - mpv-player/mpv Wiki'. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to mpv (media player). |
- Official website
- mpv at Open Hub
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mpv_(media_player)&oldid=896554182'