![]() In begin of 2007, new fixed Win32 versions compiled from SVN came up, and on 2007–03–10, MPLAYER was found to WORK on DOS via HX using the -vo gl driver. Most often striping the songs from feary tales.Įnd of 2006, after 1.0RC1 release, the idea came up to use the Win32 port (starting from commandline, using low-level GUI API only) in DOS with help of HX-DOS extender, but it didn’t work. Personally I ( Laaca ?) use this feature for striping the audio stream from youtube videos for other editation in sound editors. Another use is when testing some “buggy” video - when MPLAYER runs in pure commandline mode, you can better check the arising error messages and don’t risk “follow-up” trouble (like GPF in Ring0). This feature can also be useful for conversion from problematic format to a more comfortable / compatible / free format, later you will probably want to recompress using APEG encoder, FFMPEG, FFMPEG2THEORA or MENCODER. Extracted frames can be viewed, edited or re-merge later. When a file-based or “null” video output is specified, then no graphics / GUI support (HX GUI, VESA, CVidix) is required and MPLAYER acts like a pure commandline application - this works very well both (see below) via HX and using the DGJPP port. This feature is included as “faked output driver” - specify -vo help or -ao help on the commandline to see the list of supported “drivers” - some of them “connect” to video or sound hardware, some do save into a file, “ null ” completely disables the output. Similarly, the sound can be extracted into a WAV file. ![]() MPLAYER supports frame decomposition into series of images (PNG, uncompressed by default, and also, less useful, JPG), and decompression into “raw” YUV4MPEG video format, also it can output animated GIF (probably not very useful). A list of all native or externally supported fileformats/codecs can be found on MPLAYER website. For very exotic and obscure fileformats/codecs which support isn’t built-in you actually can use the external codecs from Windows DLL’s , however this feature is controversial among the developers (GPL compliant or not ? Useful or disturbing ?) and highly experimental, especially in DOS, where as far known nobody tested it so far. MPLAYER supports almost all codecs internally so you don’t need any DLL libraries and external codecs, as opposite to the most of Windows players. In computer terminology, the variants of multimedia fileformats are called codecs . MPLAYER can play virtually any audio/video fileformat (like OGV, AVI, MPG,…) in most of existing variants. Decomposition / decompression of audio & video files.Play audio or video files from internet.Play audio or video files from local storage.See Video and DevelLibs for additional MENCODER and FFMPEG info. Some packages contain a related product: MENCODER . Supports many fileformats/”containers” and codecs, so it can play almost every audio/video file: WMV x264 xvid libavcodec faad2 faac musepack libmpeg2 liba52 mp3lib libtheora vorbis flac speex MPEG 1/2/4, ASF/WMV 1/2/3, MOV, AVI (with almost all the possible codecs), FLV, OGG/OGV Theora, HuffYUV, WebM/VP8, …). After 6 years of waiting for 1.0 , 2012-Jun-10 the developers announced release of version 1.1 (source code), so there is no and there never will be any 1.0-final version. ![]() Project started in year 2000, in 2006-Oct-23 version 1.0RC1 was released (severe “CPUID-bug”), 2007-Oct-07 version 1.0RC2 (pretty stable, Theora playing worked at the time (see Video ), no Theora encoding in MENCODER, no Dirac and “experimental” only Snow support), 1.0RC3 and 1.0RC4 also do exist, but were never announced or advertised (“forgot to release”), instead SVN versions were used. The size is further growing as codecs and features are being added, on the other side of course in the past it was significantly smaller, cca 10 MiB for version 1.0RC1 back in 2006. It supports a huge amount of codecs, actually almost all except few most exotic ones, thus, most of them are proprietary (thanks to those who reversed the closed binaries :-) ), and of course the few free ones as well.Īll the support is compiled into one executable (for DOS or Win32) of cca 17 MiB size (2011 versions) - this is the “full” size, so it can compress down to cca 6…8 MiB with UPX, ZIP or 7-ZIP. MPLAYER is an open source GPL multimedia/audio/video/”movie” player, based on the FFMPEG codec library, originating from Linux and supporting some other platforms as well.
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