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2019-04-18, Thursday :: MPlayer 1.4 released

posted by the release team MPlayer 1.4 "SubCounter" is out. Unfortunately we missed a few opportunities to make a new release, but finally here it comes :) MPlayer 1.4 is compatible with the latest FFmpeg release (4.1) and current FFmpeg development version (FFmpeg master). The tarball already includes an FFmpeg snapshot, so you don't need to fetch it separately. If you want to follow the latest improvements in MPlayer and FFmpeg, you are strongly encouraged to use the development version (latest Subversion trunk) and benefit from the latest features and bug fixes.

You can find a short summary of the user visible changes in the included Changelog file. The tarballs are compressed with xz, for compatibility they are available with gzip compression too. Please get the xz variant if you can, to save bandwidth. MPlayer 1.4 can be downloaded by HTTP (xz, 15 MB), FTP (xz, 15 MB), HTTP (gzip, 21 MB) or FTP (gzip, 21 MB) xz SHA1SUM: 0954a7141de7c945d90db234e39a78c27cf73f78

xz SHA256SUM: 82596ed558478d28248c7bc3828eb09e6948c099bbd76bb7ee745a0e3275b548

gz SHA1SUM: 621bd04bc167869d51b48e0024df07cc8a52da08

gz SHA256SUM: aece51715b0ee5a338d33e3175491a12ba2c6f60a668f23d9259ab38d4a93369



2017-02-12, Sunday :: MPV relicense

posted by compn MPV player, a fork of MPlayer, wants to relicense the code it uses from MPlayer as LGPL. If you are an MPlayer developer and have not yet given permission, please visit MPV's bug https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/2033. Or please contact me and I can get you in contact directly with wm4. If anyone knows how to contact Nick Kurshev (author of mplayerxp) please contact me. NOTE MPlayer itself is not changing its license. This is just our project trying to help MPV project get some attention.

2016-11-08, Tuesday :: MPlayerx malware

posted by compn MPlayerX (a fork of MPlayer for OSX) was found to have malware bundled with its installer. More information can be found at malware bytes blog. If you know of any updated MPlayer builds or GUI forks for Mac OSX, please let me know. MPlayer OSX and MPlayer OSX Extended both seem to be abandoned. I recommend Mac OSX users to use command line MPlayer, VLC or mpv for osx

2016-02-16, Tuesday :: MPlayer 1.3.0 released

posted by the release team MPlayer 1.3.0 "worksforme" is out.

Less than a month after 1.2.1, we're at it again.

MPlayer 1.3.0 is compatible with the FFmpeg 3.0.x releases and (at the time of writing) with FFmpeg git. The tarball already includes a copy of FFmpeg 3.0, so you don't need to fetch it separately.

This release brings you some new codecs and formats, a lot of fixes, and many cleanups. It also includes all the enhancements and speed-ups from FFmpeg; check their changelog if you are curious about the details. In addition to these, there were a lot of updates to accommodate the API changes made in FFmpeg. Some were simple renames, but others were quite invasive. None of them should have a user-visible effect, except maybe for some corner-cases in the channel order for multichannel files.

If you see any regression from the previous releases, please report it on the mplayer-users mailing list or use our bug tracker. So, which version should you use? Try this simple test.

1 Do you compile your own MPlayer? If no, go to 5.

2 Do you want to use a system-wide copy of FFmpeg?

If no, go to 4.

3 Which version of FFmpeg do you have? If it's 2.8.x, use MPlayer 1.2.x If it's 3.0.x, use MPlayer 1.3.x If you have an older version, you are on your own. Sorry If you have a newer version, can I borrow your time machine?

4 Do you want the latest and greatest features? If yes, use MPlayer SVN and FFmpeg git. If no (why?), use 1.3.x unless you have a good reason to stay on 1.2.x.

5 You still have some options! Use the version packaged by your distribution. Look for a package on our download page. Look for an updated package in the unofficial repositories for you distribution.

Starting from this release, MPlayer depends also on libswresample (part of FFmpeg); the library is autodetected, and compilation will fail without it. MPlayer 1.3.0 can be downloaded by HTTP (xz, 13 MB), FTP (xz, 13 MB), HTTP (gzip, 20 MB) or FTP (gzip, 20 MB).

Please get the xz variant if you can, to save bandwidth. xz MD5SUM: e8a4d77ad4f509e81dd5e13b51636c1d

xz SHA1SUM: 11db20434a4e1aabb9c52f7712241dae1b3730e3

gz MD5SUM: 8786e3c61f7ab64d27c2fb965d68d883

gz SHA1SUM: b002e28b9973f2c930d120149e903964f8849a5d

2016-01-24, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.2.1 released

posted by the release team Hey! A new release!

MPlayer 1.2.1 is a bugfix release from the 1.2 branch. If you're using MPlayer 1.2 you are encouraged to upgrade. MPlayer 1.2.1 fixes many crashes with fuzzed files, squashes many bugs and includes some compatibility enhancements. A lot of bugs are fixed also in FFmpeg, you can check their changelog for details.

It's also easier to build this release with a system-wide version of FFmpeg, since you don't need to copy internal FFmpeg headers anymore. Mplayer 1.2.1 is compatible with the FFmpeg 2.8.x releases. The tarball includes a copy of FFmpeg 2.8.5 (the latest at this date), so you don't need to fetch it separately.

Just like 1.2, this version will not work with current FFmpeg master branch, nor with the upcoming FFmpeg 2.9 (or 3.0, or whatever name will be chosen).

If you need to work with the latest FFmpeg, please use svn version. If you're following the development from svn HEAD you can ignore this; all the bug fixes are also included in the development version. MPlayer 1.2.1 can be downloaded by HTTP (xz, 13 MB), FTP (xz, 13 MB), HTTP (gzip, 19 MB) or FTP (gzip, 19 MB) xz MD5SUM: 7fe68d1961427d0b4e306074e2cac246

xz SHA1SUM: cf988d8c7fe7bcf15a48970f0cf9e46837d78e1b

gz MD5SUM: 6fdf47c76986d91a405b59e265eaf5bc

gz SHA1SUM: 0ca56c8176a55fb6a51dffeb607d0e1e31521346

2015-10-03, Saturday :: MPlayer 1.2 released

posted by the release team FrameCounter Our latest release was getting stale, so it's time to make a new one.

Mplayer 1.2 is compatible with the recent FFmpeg 2.8 release. The tarball already includes a copy of FFmpeg, so you don't need to fetch it separately.

Due to some big API changes coming to FFmpeg, this release will not work with new FFmpeg master branch, nor with future FFmpeg releases. If you want to follow the latest improvements in MPlayer and FFmpeg, you are strongly encouraged to use Subversion HEAD and benefit from the latest features and bug fixes.

You know how to do it. Because you aren't using a 3 years old release, hopefully. If you are, read on and find out what you missed! VDPAU hardware accelerated decoding now works for HEVC (if your card and driver supports it). Hardware accelerated decoding is now supported also on Os X via VDA. VAAPI is still unsupported, but you can use it via VDPAU wrapper at least for H.264. A lot of new codecs, thanks to FFmpeg. The list includes HEVC, VP9 and Prores; Opus, improved AAC and DTS decoders; WebP and JPEG2000; and many, many others.

Also rtsp streaming now uses FFmpeg by default, so you don't need any additional library to use it.

For the full list of improvements and bugfixes check the FFmpeg Changelog (note: not all features are available through MPlayer at the moment, especially filters). Many GUI improvements, both in functionality (eg. TV and DVB support) and appearance. If you use the GUI, be sure to grab also the latest version of your favorite skin, or try a new one. You can get them here.

The GUI now officially needs version 2 of GTK+ and GLib (compilation with older version was already broken for quite some time). Starting from this release, MPlayer no longer ships with an internal copy of libdvdnav and libdvdcss. You can use the libraries provided with your distribution, or compile and install them yourself. They will be autodetect at configuration time.

If your distribution does not include libdvdcss you can usually grab it from non-official repositories, or you can dowload the latest source code form its homepage. The tarballs are compressed with xz, for compatibility with odd systems they are available also with gzip compression. Please get the xz variant if you can to save bandwidth. MPlayer 1.2 can be downloaded by HTTP (xz, 13 MB), FTP (xz, 13 MB), HTTP (gzip, 19 MB) or FTP (gzip, 19 MB) xz MD5SUM: 58409fccb8ef33013fb780405405491f

xz SHA1SUM: 64fad840dfae466ab5ef3be2b6c74058892cd981

gz MD5SUM: 55323dffe79c31a8d5e90fac5a5d0428

gz SHA1SUM: bcc882a838619c85f57f9888551a72a746303cd6

2015-08-01, Saturday :: New host found.

posted by Compn We found a new host, details coming soon. Thanks a LOT to all who offered to host us!

2015-01-31, Saturday :: Fixing broken mp4

posted by Compn Have an incomplete MP4 file that you cannot play? Try using this to fix it. http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/untrunc.php Maybe we can use this to make a more automated tool, one that automatically tests various standard resolutions to see if decoding passes or fails.

2015-01-31, Saturday :: Its a cold day...

posted by Compn Its a strange time in the open source world. Code contributions to the ffmpeg project include patches from Intel, MIPS Inc, AMD, Nvidia and very recently, MICROSOFT. Has hell frozen over? Competing cpu, gpu and proprietary operating system companies working together on one open source project!

2014-02-09, Sunday :: trac.ffmpeg.org / trac.mplayerhq.hu Security Breach

posted by beastd The server on which FFmpeg and MPlayer Trac issue trackers were installed was compromised. The affected server was taken offline and has been replaced and all software reinstalled. MPlayer SVN, releases, web and mailinglists are on other servers and were not affected. We believe that the original compromise happened to a server, unrelated to FFmpeg and MPlayer, several months ago. That server was used as a source to clone the VM that we recently moved Trac to. It is not known if anyone used the backdoor that was found. We recommend all users to change their passwords. Especially users who use a password on Trac that they also use elsewhere, should change that password at least elsewhere.

2013-12-22, Sunday :: Bug Tracker moved

posted by beastd The MPlayer bug tracker was moved to the project server. The tracker software was migrated from BugZilla to Trac. Big thanks to Moritz Bunkus for running the tracker for nearly a decade! User accounts were preserved but you may need to reset your password if you cannot log in anymore. If you still encounter any problems please send an email to webmaster@mplayerhq.hu .

2013-10-05, Saturday :: Doom9 compromised

posted by Compn It looks like Doom9 forums were compromised.

Running a packet sniffer while accessing the site brings up urls:

http://online-multiplayer.com/doom9/l.js

http://online-multiplayer.com/doom9/data.php

Make sure you change your password if you've logged in recently.

2013-05-05, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.1.1 update

posted by the release team For those of you sticking to the release version, we recommend to update to 1.1.1 to avoid security issues. The tar file in the download section also contains the latest version of the FFmpeg 0.11 release with many fixes of its own. If you need a diff of only the fix itself, for example for old versions you still want or need to maintain please use svn di -c36242 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/branches/1.1

2012-11-23, Friday :: MPlayer VAAPI

posted by Compn We would like to get MPlayer-VAAPI merged and need some developers to review and fix up the codebase. Advanced help would be appreciated, please coordinate on mplayer-dev-eng mailing list for more information.

2012-09-18, Tuesday :: SMPlayer adware

posted by Compn An MPlayer user notified me about the SMPlayer link that we had on our download page. The SMPlayer installer was trying to install adware and toolbars. The MPlayer project does not condone adware/spyware at all. If you have installed SMPlayer via the web installer, we urge you to uninstall all of the spyware that may have been installed. When I linked the SMPlayer installer , it was 8mb and contained nothing but MPlayer and SMPlayer gui. The link had been changed and I failed to notice. Any users affected have my sincere apologies.

2012-06-10, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.1 released

posted by the release team We gave up on 1.0 After a long pause, we decided that it might be a good idea to make a new release. While we had our fun with the naming scheme with lots of "pre" and "rc" it seemed time to move on and with everyone incrementing major versions between weekly and monthly we hope to be forgiven for jumping ahead to 1.1. This release is intended to be compatible with the recent FFmpeg 0.11 release. We hope it will be useful to distros and other users relying on FFmpeg 0.11. Everyone else is encouraged to follow Subversion HEAD to always get the latest features and bug fixes. You might still want to read the release announcement to get a short summary of any bigger changes and improvements. Among the bigger news is that we found a maintainer for the X11 gmplayer GUI, so those holding out on it against our earlier recommendations will get a lot of bug fixes. There is also support for more subtitle types (Bluray, DVB, DVB closed-caption for example), many improvements to -vo gl including output of 10 bit video, very basic but usable OpenGL ES support and much better SDL support which makes it a usable choice on OSX (particularly on older PowerPC variants much faster than corevideo or quartz). MPlayer will now also try much harder to handle intermittent network failures, for example trying to reconnect. As part of the code cleanup efforts, the internal libfaad2 copy has been removed since the FFmpeg decoder is working well. Also the internal mp3lib copy is no longer used by default since the many alternatives (FFmpeg, libmpg123, libmad) avoid its recurring issues like incorrect decoding with newer compilers. However it can still be forced at runtime for easier tracking of regressions. Please do not rely on this since it will be removed in the future. If you do not actually need it consider disabling it at compile time with --disable-mp3lib. As a first for this release, the tarballs are available in two variants: compressed with xz and compressed with gzip. Please get the xz variant if you can to save bandwidth, the gzip version is for everyone that cannot use it. Should you never have encountered xz compressed files, newer versions of tar can uncompress it via "tar xJf MPlayer-1.1.tar.xz". MPlayer 1.1 can be downloaded by HTTP (xz, 11 MB), FTP (xz, 11 MB), HTTP (gzip, 17 MB) or FTP (gzip, 17 MB) xz MD5SUM: ac7bf1cfedc1c5c24bfc83107eefb1d9

xz SHA1SUM: 913a4bbeab7cbb515c2f43ad39bc83071b2efd75

gz MD5SUM: 4bf35ef2a802f23b9ad57ba7ef488587

gz SHA1SUM: e46e3294bc96daabe604e4e195721e4f2d1e5b48

2012-02-17, Friday :: Playing back BluRay discs

posted by Compn Correction MPlayer does support encrypted BluRay playback, though not all steps are handled by MPlayer itself. The two alternative methods use the URL schemes bd:// (always supports decryption, but you need the key for each and every disk in ~/.dvdcss/KEYDB.cfg and only works well with very simple BluRays, similar to dvd:// vs. dvdnav://) and br:// (uses libbluray and should support the same as VideoLAN in the link below but that is untested). End correction MPlayer needs some documentation on how to play encrypted discs. Patches are welcome. VideoLAN users can follow the instructions here | Mirror I have not tested, but it looks like it works on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Thanks to whoever created this and hopefully no one will have to rip the discs to a hard drive before playing now.

2011-12-15, Thursday :: The Internet Needs Your Help!

posted by Compn Today, a bill that would create America's first Internet censorship system is going to a full committee for a vote, and is likely to pass. Please call or email or write your congresscritter now! If you are not in the USA, you still need to talk to your friends who are in the USA and get them to call. You can also petition the state department.

2011-04-25, Monday :: MPlayer Project back online.

posted by Compn MPlayer's services are operational again. We were unable to move the physical server at this time, but the data has arrived at our new host safely. Status: SVN - UP

Mailing Lists - UP

Incoming - UP

Samples - UP The mailing lists have been reindexed, so old urls will point at incorrect mails again. The website /DOCS/ arent updating, so please use the SVN documentation for now. If you find any problems with the website, please report them on our Bug Trac.

2011-04-15, Friday :: MPlayer server is moving.

posted by Compn Due to some reorganizations, the MPlayer project server will be moving soon. There will be some downtime for the mailing lists and svn server while things are in transit. Join us on IRC while we wait for the server and DNS to propagate! Connect to irc.freenode.net and join the #mplayer channel.

2011-03-26, Saturday :: MPlayer is now Multi Threaded

posted by Compn Thanks to FFmpeg and its project in the Google Summer of Code program, we now have multi threaded support for playing back H.264 and other codecs.

To enable threading run mplayer -lavdopts threads=N file.mkv where N is the number of threads you want to use.

You will need to have the latest SVN MPlayer for this. Please report any bugs you find to our Bug Trac.

2011-01-30, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc4 released

posted by the release team Yes, we can! MPlayer 1.0rc4 continues the tradition of long overdue, but better late than never releases. It has been tested thoroughly to work with the FFmpeg 0.6 branch. It will be useful to distros and other users relying on FFmpeg 0.6. To get the latest and greatest in features and bug fixes, Subversion HEAD should be a better fit. 1.0rc4 once again adds a slew of new binary codecs and leverages all the stuff added to FFmpeg. Notable additions are VP8 decoding, H.264 bug fixes and speedups, unencrypted Blu-ray support. Network streams can now be played through FFmpeg, there has been quite a bit of subtitle work and Ogg and Matroska demuxer defaults were switched to libavformat. The window position is now decided by the window manager. Our constant efforts to clean up the codebase continue as usual. A ton of compiler warnings disappeared and there have been refactorings all around. External library copies have been synchronized with upstream. The internal liba52 copy is gone and it is now possible to build against external libmpeg2 and libmpg123. MPlayer 1.0rc4 can be downloaded by HTTP or FTP. MD5SUM: 1699c94de39da9c4c5d34e8f58e418f0

SHA1SUM: 36dfaeda726896b6831d66b0fe179623e0385fbe MPlayer 1.0rc4: "Yes we can" GUI: Changes towards removing the GUI The GUI will no longer display any error or warning messages.

Special GUI slave commands (gui_*) were removed, along with the related key bindings. Decoders: YUY2 Lossless Codec (YLC0) via binary DLL

Truemotion RT codec (TR20) via binary DLL

Nogantech Codec (NTN1 and NTN2) via binary DLL

add new FourCCs (m1v1, yuvs, VYUY, Y42B, V422, YUNV, UYNV, UYNY, uyv1, 2Vu1, P422, HDYC, IJLV, MVJP) TwoCCs (0xA106, 0x6c75, 0xAAC0, 0x55005354) to existing decoders

AMR now handled via OpenCORE decoder

updated Windows Media Screen Codec (MSS1, MSS2) via binary DLL

CoreAVC H.264 decoder via binary DLL (Windows only)

Kega Game video codec (KGV1) via binary DLL

SoftLab-NSK Forward MPEG-2 I-frames (SLIF) via binary DLL

JPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG

internal liba52 copy removed

CineForm HD (CFHD) via binary DLL

VP8 en-/decoding through libvpx wrapper and native decoder in FFmpeg

support for external libmpeg2 added

hardware MPEG decoder priority lowered

external libmpg123 support Demuxers: Mostly fixed timing issues with some H.264 (PAFF) samples

Matroska and Ogg demuxers switched to use libavformat by default. Report issues and use -demuxer ogg and -demuxer mkv to work around them.

support for TrueHD in Blu-ray streams in libmpdemux

more Blu-ray codec support with lavf

fix length in ASF/WMV files

support ISDB-Tb DVB streams Filters: remove vf_yuy2, functionality is replaced by -vf format=yuv2

remove vf_rgb2bgr, functionality is replaced by sws and vf_format Streaming: Support for unencrypted Blu-ray playback through libbluray. Use it through: mplayer br:////path/to/disc Drivers: -vo yuv4mpeg:interlaced no longer does its own interlaced RGB->YUV conversion. Use -vf scale=::1 to keep the same behavior and report if there are any issues with that.

X11: Window manager chooses Window position by default. Add geometry=50%:50% to your configuration to get the old behavior.

-vo md5sum md5 calculation changed so output matches FFmpeg's -f framemd5

Support for more formats in OpenGL video output drivers (different YUV subsampling, 16 bit per component)

Selectable YUV to RGB conversion standard for -vo gl (-vo gl:colorspace=...:levelconv=...)

-vo gl now tries to use yuv=2 by default if possible

-vo gl:stereo=... for experimental stereo (3D) support

-vo matrixview finally added

add OS/2 KAI audio driver (-ao kai) Other: -nosub option for disabling auto-selected subtitles

support for displaying subs in the terminal (FIXME)

support for subtitles with audio-only files

support for right-to-left languages with embedded subtitles

support for UTF-16 encoded external subtitles

support for 8 channel audio

sync dvd:// and dvdnav:// features

support for MPEG-4 ASP in VDPAU video output (non-B-frame only)

support for live and non-live DVB teletext with demuxer lavf

-name, -title and -use-filename-title options for MPlayer

support for stream handling via FFmpeg, in particular RTMP and RTSP (use e.g. ffmpeg://http://example.com/test)

experimental support for external libass, pass '-disable-ass-internal' to configure

better support for 16-bit-per-component formats and formats with alpha channel

better out-of-the-box support for compiling for ARM, IA64, MinGW32 and MinGW-w64, MinGW has ASLR enabled with recent enough binutils

libdvdcss synced with upstream Subversion snapshot MEncoder: add -tsprog for demuxer lavf

2011-01-23, Sunday :: Donations through flattr

posted by Diego It is now possible to donate to MPlayer through flattr. Thank you for your support.

2010-01-23, Sunday :: Daily packages for Ubuntu Users!

posted by siretart As a special service for Ubuntu users, the mplayer project now provides packages for various versions of Ubuntu. The packages are built twice a week from SVN trunk and run independently of your system libraries. For instructions how to enable the PPA, please look here

2010-11-11, Thursday :: Happy Birthday MPlayer!

posted by Compn A message from the creator of MPlayer, Arpi: Hi, It was exactly 10 years ago, that I've released first MPlayer version, v0.01: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/old_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.01.tar.gz Yes, f*cking 10 years!!!! Nov 11, 2000... Time goes on so fast... I want to thank you all for the contributions, patches, bugs, docs, testing etc. Especially Michael Niedermayer, Fabrice Bellard and Nick Kurshev, who made it to be the best & fastest open-source player! And sorry Nick, I made a big mistake rejecting your multi-threaded patches. Unfortunatelly your idea came too early, nobody (at least me) thought that desktop PCs will ever have multiple CPUs... and now that even cheap notebooks and netbooks have multi-core CPUs, it would be very useful for HD playback... Also special thanks to Gabucino, Pontscho and LGB, for your support in the early days, when everybody thought i'm mad, working on video player for linux... A'rpi ps: Albeu, i'll never forgive your playtree patches :)

2010-07-11, Sunday :: Call for Samples

posted by Compn Some work is being done to the MPEG subtitle code, but we need more samples of DVB and VBI-coded teletext as well as other MPEG-TS/PS subtitles which currently do not work in SVN or which work with -demuxer lavf but not with MPlayer's demuxer.

2010-06-06, Sunday :: Updates and workarounds

posted by Compn Just some random notes and changes. In SVN the lavf demuxer is now default for Matroska files. We are trying to fix the problems in it, so please report some bugs if you run into them. If you just want to undo this change, add the following to the end of your config file: [extension.mkv] demuxer=mkv MPlayer now has the ability to use FFmpeg's network code to access streams. Use mplayer ffmpeg://rtsp://example.invalid/stream.mov syntax to try it. In general most users should be using SVN MPlayer, as rc3 is over a year old.

2010-05-30, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc3 released

posted by the release team Godot has arrived. 1.0rc3 was intended to be rolled out over a year ago, but got delayed again and again. Since it is designed to be compatible with the FFmpeg 0.5 branch, it will be useful to distros and other users still tracking said branch. Thus we are now publishing it even though it is outdated even before the day of its release. For general usage current Subversion snapshots should be a better fit, as many bug fixes and new features are available. This release adds support for a ton of new binary codecs and leverages all the stuff added to FFmpeg. Hardware-accelerated video output over VDPAU is now possible, as is audio output through PulseAudio. MPlayer now runs natively on 64bit OS X, the Wii and on OS/2. We have switched to the libavformat MOV/MP4 demuxer to avoid maintaining the duplicate MOV/MP4 code. This breaks binary audio/video codecs with MOV/MP4 files. Please use '-demuxer mov' if you still require the binary decoders. Our constant efforts to clean up the codebase continue as usual. A ton of compiler warnings disappeared and there have been refactorings all around. External library copies have been synchronized with upstream. There is no need to download binary codec packages if you already have an older version. The codec packs have not been updated. Note that this code is ancient, e.g. it still contains this long-fixed bug. Unless you are at least deadly allergic to it, use latest SVN instead. MPlayer 1.0rc3 can be downloaded by HTTP or FTP. MD5SUM: e1221be5fcad74a2a4185f67ba6c9ae0

SHA1SUM: f533ea1eb2c540402bace0f0fe2317721361510d MPlayer 1.0rc3: "BikeshedCounter AKA Godot" Decoders: support for X8 frames (fixes "J-type picture is not supported" for WMV2)

support for DTS WAV/DTS-CD passthrough by ad_hwac3

Apple's raw YUV2 in MOV

LATM over LOAS AAC decoding via internal libfaad2

video game codecs: BFI video, Playstation MDEC video, ADPCM XA audio, EA Maxis XA ADPCM audio, RL2 video, Beam Software SIFF video, V.Flash PTX video

AVOption support for libavcodec-based decoders

use lavc ADPCM codecs by default

support for progressive JPEG in ffmjpeg

ACDSystems MJPEG (ACDV) via binary DLL and lavc

SIF1 via binary DLL

wincam screen capture (WCMV) via binary DLL

Creative Labs Video Blaster Webcam mjpeg (CJPG) via binary DLL and ijpg library

kensington webcam (AJPG, ABYR) via binary DLL

centre for wavelets (wavc) via binary DLL

GeoVision Advanced MPEG-4 (GMP4, GM40) via binary DLL

Xiricam JPEG from Veo PC Camera (XJPG) via binary DLL

WorldConnect Wavelet Video (SMSV) via binary DLL

VDOWave 3 advanced (VDO3, VDOM, VDOW) via binary DLL

VoxWare MetaVoice (format 0x0074) via binary DLL

Ulead DV Audio (0x215, 0x216) via binary DLL

GoToMeeting codec (G2M2, G2M3) via binary DLL

SP4x codec - used by Aiptek MegaCam (SP4x) via binary DLL

Broadway MPEG Capture Codec (BW10) via binary DLL

ZDSoft screen recorder (ZDSV) via binary DLL

WebTrain Communication lossless screen recorder (WTVC) via binary DLL

xfire video (XFR1) via binary DLL

VFAPI RGB transcode (vifp) via binary DLL

ETI CamCorder EYECON (NUB0, NUB1, NUB2) via binary DLL

fox motion (FMVC) via binary DLL

Trident video (TY2C, TY2N, TY0N) via binary DLL

10-bit video (v210) via Cinewave binary DLL

Brooktree YUV 4:1:1 Raw (Y41P) via binary DLL

many rare/obscure fourccs for known formats added

lower priority for binary Linux rv3040 codecs due to bugs

remove native NuppelVideo decoder, use lavc instead Demuxers: -lavfdopts cryptokey allows decrypting MXF and ASF files

support for wavpack in Matroska

AVOption support for lavf demuxing

prefer lavf musepack demuxer over libmpdemux

prefer lavf MOV demuxer over libmpdemux (use -demuxer mov for old behavior)

support program switching in lavf demuxer

support -slang in lavf demuxer

support nosound switching in lavf demuxer

support libass in lavf demuxer

support VOBsub in lavf demuxer

support MOV subtitle format

support for attachments in lavf demuxer

support for chapters in lavf demuxer

support seeking in multirate RealMedia files

FLAC speedup in lavf demuxer

MNG demuxer

remove native NuppelVideo demuxer, use lavf demuxer instead Filters: vf_ow new overcomplete wavelet denoiser

change vf_screenshot dependency from libpng to lavc

add af_scaletempo which maintains audio pitch when changing playback speed

fix multi-channel reordering

af_stats filter to print information about the audio stream Streaming: tv:// support for Windows

fix teletext on some systems

DVD streams can switch angles

DVD still menus are now supported via dvdnav://

allow specifying the TV standard for each channel

switch internal dvdread to libdvdread SVN external FFmpeg/libavcodec: DNxHD encoder

H.264 PAFF decoding

Nellymoser ASAO decoder

Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder

libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder

IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1

Ogg (Vorbis only) muxer

PC Paintbrush PCX decoder

Sun Rasterfile decoder

TechnoTrend PVA demuxer

Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer

AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer

QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder

iPod/iPhone compatible MP4 muxer

Mimic decoder

MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer

RL2 demuxer / decoder

IFF demuxer

8SVX audio decoder

BFI demuxer

MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder

BFI video decoder

OMA demuxer

MLP/TrueHD decoder

Electronic Arts CMV decoder

Motion Pixels Video decoder

Motion Pixels MVI demuxer

removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer

D-Cinema audio muxer

Electronic Arts TGV decoder

Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder

AAC decoder

floating point PCM encoder/decoder

MXF muxer

E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder

Nellymoser ASAO encoder

ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer

liba52 wrapper removed

SVQ3 watermark decoding support

Speex decoding via libspeex

Electronic Arts TGQ decoder

RV30 and RV40 decoder

QCELP / PureVoice decoder

hybrid WavPack support

R3D REDCODE demuxer

Electronic Arts TQI decoder

OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder

NC (NC4600) cameras file demuxer

MXF D-10 muxer

Generic metadata API

H.264 speedup and PAFF decoding (install Yasm for faster H.264 decoding)

correctly decode more of the H.264 conformance testsuite

VC-1/WMV3 decoder speedup

VP3 decoder speedup

VP6 decoder speedup

Split-Radix FFT (speedup multiple audio codecs)

MMX/SSE/ARM and other misc speedups libmpeg2: enable Alpha/ARM optimizations in libmpeg2

SSE2-optimized IDCT routines from upstream libmpeg2

libmpeg2 updated to version 0.5.1 Drivers: replace PolypAudio by PulseAudio (-ao pulse)

add force-pbo suboption for faster output in vo_gl

add Nintendo Wii/GameCube video driver (-vo wii)

VIDIX driver for SuperH Mobile VEU hardware block

support -border on vo_gl/gl2 in x11

Direct3D Windows video output driver added

factorize code in vo_wii

removed unnecessary code from vo x11, xv, xvmc

add OS/2 DART audio driver (-ao dart)

add VDPAU video output

add OS/2 KVA video driver (-vo kva) MEncoder: check for system-wide configuration file in MEncoder

AVOption support for lavc encoders

AVOption support for lavf muxers Others: many compiler warning fixes

basic support for Closed Captioning roll-up mode

reworked screensaver disabling support, most users will need to use -heartbeat-cmd due to screensaver authors failing to design a common API

grayscale decoding/encoding with FFmpeg disabled where it slowed down the color case

Linux AppleIR remote support

add options to disable some or all configuration files

support for DOS-style file:///x:/path paths

some new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)

libdvdcss updated to 1.2.10, now same as upstream version

fix -endchapter support again for -dump* options

add startup audio volume option

add option to disable default key binds

change default OSD and subtitle font size to a smaller default libass various fixes and updates to match VSFilter renderer

support \blur tag and ScaledBordersAndShadow property

fractional arguments and subpixel accuracy

keep positions when pan-and-scan is used Ports: small crash with vo_macosx fixed

AC3/DTS passthrough for ao_macosx

fix frozen OSD on OS X

vo_gl now works with -wid and nVidia drivers on Windows (this is a hack)

VIDIX on SuperH

workarounds for AltiVec on Apple gcc 3.3 on OS X dropped

vo_macosx can now be compiled in 64-bits mode

allow multiple MPlayer instances with vo_macosx using buffer_name

OpenGL support for unmodified MinGW64 SWScaler: new LGPLed YUV to RGB tables generator

2010-01-01, Friday :: DVDs

posted by Compn Happy new year! Just a quick note, if you got some DVD's as a gift, mplayer -nocache dvdnav:// should play your new movies better than dvd://.

2009-11-01, Sunday :: Updates

posted by Compn MPlayer now supports most of the Blu-ray and HD-DVD codecs. You can rip Blu-ray movies on Linux using this guide. There is also an untested patch for playing Blu-ray discs in this thread at doom9.org. MPlayer is also hosting the rtmpdump project. rtmpdump is a program to download rtmp:// streams. It was previously hosted on SourceForge.