MPlayer OSX Extended

About

MPlayer OSX Extended is the future of MPlayer OSX. Leveraging the power of the MPlayer and FFmpeg open source projects, MPlayer OSX Extended aims to deliver a powerful, functional and no frills video player for OSX.

MPlayer OSX Extended is based on the original MPlayer OSX project but has since undergone fundamental changes, making it a modern and easy to use video player. Thanks to multithreading and 64bit architecture, MPlayer OSX Extended is one of the fastest choices on OSX to play back HD H264 videos. It also supports instant playback of MKV files and advanced styled subtitles in the ASS format.

MPlayer OSX Extended uses the MPlayer open source project for decoding and integrates MPlayer's default key commands with a native OSX interface. Users of MPlayer should immediately feel at home and are able to tweak the fine details of the MPlayer invocation with binary bundles and additional command-line options.

Some of its key features are:

Up-to-date builds of MPlayer and FFmpeg.
Clean and concise interface and preferences.
Support for MKV files with embedded fonts and ASS subtitles.
Multithreaded and 64bit-enabled for best playback performance.
Built-in support for a wide range of video and audio formats.
Fullscreen controls, playlist, inspector and interactive audio and video equalizers.
Capture screenshots of any video.
Automatic updates for itself and MPlayer binaries.

Screenshots

Downloads

MPlayer OSX Extended - Revision 14 (22MB, 9. January 2011, OSX 10.5+)
Download from Google Code.

Note: The first time MPlayer OSX plays a video, fontconfig will build it's font cache. This can take a while but only has to be done once.

MPlayer Binary Codec Package (x86/PCC)
Download from MPlayer.
Installing the binary codec pack for your architecture will add support for additional proprietary codecs. For x86 (Intel), those include WMV9, RealVideo 10, QuickTime and others. For PPC they only include the Real Codecs.
The x86 codec pack will not work with 64bit MPlayer. rev14 contains an option that allows to run the MPlayer with 32bit on 64bit machines and enabling it is a requirement to use the binary codecs.

MPlayer Bundles
MPlayer OSX Extended allows using different MPlayer binaries using bundles:

mplayer2 bundle by Stefano Pigozzi: A binary bundle of the mplayer2 fork with added support for e.g. ordered chapters.

Past versions
Starting from rev12, MPlayer OSX Extended requires at least OSX 10.5 (Leopard). The last version to run on 10.4 (Tiger) is rev11, which can be downloaded here.
The full revision backlog can be viewed and downlaoded in the wiki.

Contribute

The source can be found on Github. You can clone the repository using the following command:

git clone git://github.com/sttz/MPlayer-OSX-Extended.git mposxext

Issues are tracked on Github. Feel free to open a new issue if you find a problem that hasn't been reported before:
Github issue tracker

The Redmine tracker has been retired. It's still available here for read-only access.

Changes

Revision 14 (9. January 2011):
- Major Changes:
  - Redesigned fullscreen controls by Steven La. Thanks!
  - Add audio output device selection to preferences.
  - New no-distraction fullscreen option (blocks menu, dock, task switcher, growl, etc).
- Improvements:
  - Improve visibility of scrub bar badge.
  - Add option to enable equalizers by default and save defaults for the video equalizer.
  - Add tab-key to cycle timestamp display modes (shows controls first in fullscreen).
  - Remember timestamp display mode (separately for player/playlist).
  - Improved Spaces compatibility.
- Fixes:
  - Fix MPE not opening any new files if all player windows have been closed.
  - Fix Fontconfig having to always rebuild its caches when using 32bit and 64bit clients.
  - Fix loosing audio when plugging/unplugging headphones.
  - Fix on top while playing when a movie is starting.
  - Fix MPE not launching when the screenshot save location doesn't exist.
  - Fix a bug that would toggle out of fullscreen when playing from the playlist.
  - Fix issues with files that contain problematic metadata.
  - Fix menu key binding interfering with text input.
- New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 7. January 2011 (r32769).
Revision 13 (1. February 2010)
- Major changes:
  - Redesigned preferences window
  - MPlayer binary bundles
  - Interactive audio and video equalizers
  - New inspector window
  - Redesigned player window (by Nick Saia)
  - Support for multiple player instances
- Smaller changes:
  - Custom screenshot save location
  - OSD level and subtitle scale now apply immediately
  - Better custom aspect ratio support
  - Audio equalizer presets
  - Per-file settings in the inspector including audio and subtitle delay
  - Added and fixed framestep function
  - Added loop option
  - Faster adding of files to the playlist
  - Added recent files menu
  - Fix old Apple Remote on Snow Leopard and add support for new one
  - Added support for selecting vob subtitles
  - Clicking on timestamps will cycle the displayed time mode
  - Improved support for VIDEO_TS folders
  - Improved detection of initial streams
- Fixes:
  - Many playlist fixes
  - Fix garbled MPEG1/2 playback
  - Fix video view related crashed
  - The player window is hidden if it's on the same screen that is used for fullscreen
- Removed in this release:
  - Video output selection (internal is the only option now)
  - ASS subtitles are always enabled
  - Skip loopfilter and fast options have been merged
  - The MPlayer config file in ~/.mplayer will now longer be loaded
Changelog for older revisions...

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MPlayer OSX Extended is free software and released under the GNU GPLv2 license.

MPlayer OSX Extended is developed by Adrian Stutz.

MPlayer OSX Extended is an unofficial modification of the MPlayer OSX project, maintained by Nicolas Plourde. See AUTHORS.rtf in the download for a complete list of developers.

The official MPlayer project can be found at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

The icon was taken from the Tango Desktop Project.