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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.
Additions to the original project include:
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.
Additions to the original project include:
- Fullscreen controls
- More video filter options (Postprocessing, Deinterlace etc)
- Support for styled ASS subtitles
- Audio and video equalizers (not yet interactive)
- Taking Screenshots
- Stream selection
- Automatic updates
- Up-to-date compiled versions of MPlayer
- Many interface improvements
- Many bug fixes
What's new in this version:
- New icon by mar2o
- Fullscreen improvements:
- Option to black out other screens while in fullscreen
- Don't hide player window to allow using it on a second screen
- Check that fullscreen controls are never placed off-screen
- Don't hide menu bar except when going fullscreen on main screen
- Interface improvements:
- Enable volume changing and seeking with the scroll wheel
- Allow player window to be dragged by clicking on the video
- Additional option for on-top while playing only
- Allow overriding pre-defined file types (drop-down in open dialog, hold command while dragging file on window)
- Add encoding selection to open subtitle dialog
- Update cache slider range to 256MB and allow higher values to be entered in the text box
- Switch to new MPlayer build style with shared libraries (saves 17MB or 36%)
- Add log rotation to avoid MPlayerOSX.log getting unreasonably huge
- Add BS2B audio filter (to simulate speakers through headphones for a more natural listening experience)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when going to fullscreen
- Fix occasional volume "leak" at the start of a movie
- Fix a problem with preferences window not closing
- On-top now doesn't place the window above menus
- Fix a memory leak in the video output (patch by mpx-trax AT the-color-black.net)
- Fix MPlayer being marked as unresponsive and spindump on Leopard eating CPU time
- Video no longer stops when a menu is opened for a longer time
- New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 22. June 2009 (r29378)
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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Loop? - Version: rev10, 4/17/2009 10:56PM PST
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UmarOMC1
Sorry this isn't a review or minireview or anything but is a Loop feature available anywhere in the interface or prefs?
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MPlayer confusion explained... - Version: rev8, 2/9/2009 09:42AM PST
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zunipus
There is a certain eccentricity regarding MPlayer. There are essentially three separate development tracks:
1) The Version 1 track is the original and is actively run by the developers who write ffmpeg, officially maintained by Nicolas Plourde. They actively maintain the CLI version but also have an active GUI version. Version 1 has been updated into a Universal Binary. The most recent version is v1.0rc2, released in January 2009. You can access the developer site via:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
2) The Version 2 track is currently at a dead end, kept over at SourceForge, as indicated by the URL I posted above. On their website the last version is listed as v2.0b8r5. But when you actually run it, you'll find in the About Box tht what you have is v2.0b95. (>_<) Version 2 stopped development in 2005. It was never updated beyond PPC compatibility. Therefore, it runs in Rosetta on Intel Macs and is IMHO antiquated.
3) Recently a third sub-branch began, called MPlayer OSX Extended, developed by Adrian Stutz. It is a GUI embellishment built upon the Version 1 track. It is 'unofficial' but offers some well acclaimed ease of use improvements. This is the version people currently prefer. It is actively updated and keeps up with the most recent edition of the Version 1 track. The most recent version is 'rev8'. It is Universal Binary.
Summary: Version 1 is the older, original development track, but it is also the only active branch. Version 2 started later, but is currently a dead project. I personally recommend going for MPlayer OSX Extended.
What I do: I have one folder for all three. Inside it I have separate folders for v1, v2 and Extended. I have all three in my Dock. But the one I use most is Extended.
1) The Version 1 track is the original and is actively run by the developers who write ffmpeg, officially maintained by Nicolas Plourde. They actively maintain the CLI version but also have an active GUI version. Version 1 has been updated into a Universal Binary. The most recent version is v1.0rc2, released in January 2009. You can access the developer site via:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
2) The Version 2 track is currently at a dead end, kept over at SourceForge, as indicated by the URL I posted above. On their website the last version is listed as v2.0b8r5. But when you actually run it, you'll find in the About Box tht what you have is v2.0b95. (>_<) Version 2 stopped development in 2005. It was never updated beyond PPC compatibility. Therefore, it runs in Rosetta on Intel Macs and is IMHO antiquated.
3) Recently a third sub-branch began, called MPlayer OSX Extended, developed by Adrian Stutz. It is a GUI embellishment built upon the Version 1 track. It is 'unofficial' but offers some well acclaimed ease of use improvements. This is the version people currently prefer. It is actively updated and keeps up with the most recent edition of the Version 1 track. The most recent version is 'rev8'. It is Universal Binary.
Summary: Version 1 is the older, original development track, but it is also the only active branch. Version 2 started later, but is currently a dead project. I personally recommend going for MPlayer OSX Extended.
What I do: I have one folder for all three. Inside it I have separate folders for v1, v2 and Extended. I have all three in my Dock. But the one I use most is Extended.
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