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MPlayer
	MPlayer on Linux using the gMplayer front-end
Developer(s)	MPlayer team
Initial release	2000; 24 years ago
Stable release	1.5 / 27 February 2022
Repository	svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk ;
Written in	C
Platform	Cross-platform
Available in	English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish
Type	Media player
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	mplayerhq.hu

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MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application. 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 Wii Homebrew Channel^[5] and Amazon Kindle^[6] have also been developed.

History

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. The first version was titled mpg12play v0.1 and was hacked together in half an hour using libmpeg3 from Cinelerra-HV. After mpg12play v0.95pre5, the code was merged with an AVI player based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.^[7] 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.^[8]

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

There are various SIP blocks that can accelerate video decoding computation in several formats, including PureVideo, UVD, QuickSync Video, TI Ducati and others. Two studies in 2007 and 2010 implemented hardware decoding for MPlayer,^[9] including for specific mobile device architectures.^[10]

Capabilities and classification

MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats,^[11] 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.

A variety of command-line parameters allows changing the appearance of the player, including -speed [number], -af scaletempo for changing audio speed while maintaining the pitch, -ss (start at ___ seconds), -sb (start at ___ bytes), -endpos (stop playing at ___ seconds), -novideo for only playing the audio track of a video, and -loop [number] for looping.^[12]

Media formats

MPlayer can play many formats, including:^[13]

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

XMMS plugins
Avisynth

Interface and graphical front-ends

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)^[14]^[15] and Gnome-MPlayer
Qt-based are SMPlayer and KMPlayer, among others.
Cocoa-based are MPlayer OS X Extended and MPlayerX^[16]

Forks

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.^[17] 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.^[18]^[19] The developers also indicated intentions to enable MPlayer2 to use Libav as an alternative to ffmpeg.^[20] The first release, 2.0, was published in March 2011. There have been no subsequent stable releases.

mpv^[21] is a GPLv2-licensed fork of mplayer2. Since June 2015, mpv has worked to relicense its code as LGPL v2.1 or above.^[22]

MPlayer, MPlayer2 and mpv all use incompatible EDL formats.^[23]^[24]^[25]

Legal controversy

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.^[26] 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.^[26]

References

^ "MPlayer 1.5 released". 27 February 2022.
^ "MPlayer - The Movie Player". Retrieved 28 February 2022.
^ "MPlayer - the Movie Player".
^ "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.
^ History
^ "MPlayer - The Movie Player". Retrieved 2012-06-24.
^ Zhang H, et al. (2010). The design and implementation of an embedded high definition player. The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE). Vol. 4.
^ Chang, Hoseok; Lee, Youngjoon; Sung, Wonyong (October 2007). "Performance Optimization of a Multimedia Player on a Mobile CPU Platform". 2007 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems. IEEE. pp. 163–168. doi:10.1109/sips.2007.4387538. ISBN 978-1-4244-1221-1. S2CID 8023880.
^ "Codec Status Table". Mplayerhq.hu. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
^ MPlayer documentation and user manual
^ "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". GitHub. 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 25 April 2011. Alt URL
^ "EDL files". mpv. 25 Oct 2014. Retrieved 21 Jul 2015.
^ ^a ^b "MPlayer - The Movie Player". 2004-01-10. Retrieved 2012-06-24.

External links

Official website

[wikidata-a300ec44e5674fd10c5e07fdf44db30b840766fa-v18-1] "MPlayer 1.5 released". 27 February 2022.

[wikidata-d8890391584a19e9f3b54a53f64fc54b64763009-v18-2] "MPlayer - The Movie Player". Retrieved 28 February 2022.

[3] "MPlayer - the Movie Player".

[4] "Index of /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer". Ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2012-01-01.

[5] Erant. "libdi and the DVDX installer". Hackmii.com. Retrieved 2012-01-01.

[6] "kindlebrew". Gitorious. Archived from the original on 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2012-01-01.

[7] History

[8] "MPlayer - The Movie Player". Retrieved 2012-06-24.

[zhang-9] Zhang H, et al. (2010). The design and implementation of an embedded high definition player. The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE). Vol. 4.

[10] Chang, Hoseok; Lee, Youngjoon; Sung, Wonyong (October 2007). "Performance Optimization of a Multimedia Player on a Mobile CPU Platform". 2007 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems. IEEE. pp. 163–168. doi:10.1109/sips.2007.4387538. ISBN 978-1-4244-1221-1. S2CID 8023880.

[11] "Codec Status Table". Mplayerhq.hu. Retrieved 2012-01-01.

[12] MPlayer documentation and user manual

[13] "MPlayer Features". Mplayerhq.hu. Retrieved 2012-01-01.

[14] "README". Retrieved 2016-03-19.

[15] "What about the GUI?". Retrieved 2016-03-19.

[16] "MPlayer OSX Extended". 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2015-01-23.

[17] "Is MPlayer2 a viable fork of MPlayer?". Phoronix. 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2014-04-18.

[18] "mplayer2 differences from mplayer". 2011. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2015.

[19] "Did You Know there was a Fork of MPlayer?". ostatic.com. 2011-03-22. Retrieved 2011-11-29.

[20] "Libav going to be default provider for your codec experience (comment)". January 16, 2013.

[21] "mpv.io". Retrieved 2015-01-28.

[22] "Possible LGPL relicensing". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-09-27.

[23] "3.7. Edit Decision Lists (EDL)". Archived from the original on 2015-07-17. Retrieved 21 Jul 2015.

[24] "EDL: add support for new EDL file format". MPlayer2. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011. Alt URL

[25] "EDL files". mpv. 25 Oct 2014. Retrieved 21 Jul 2015.

[2004-03-26] "MPlayer - The Movie Player". 2004-01-10. Retrieved 2012-06-24.

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+{{multiple issues|{{Update|inaccurate=yes|date=June 2012}}
+{{more citations needed|date=February 2023}}}}
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 | name = MPlayer
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+| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q131344|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
+| latest release date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q131344|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
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 | programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
 | platform = [[Cross-platform]]
 | language = English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish
 | genre = [[Media player (software)|Media player]]
-| license = [[GNU General Public License|GNU GPL]]v2<ref>http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html</ref>
+| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html|title = MPlayer - the Movie Player}}</ref>
-| website = {{URL|http://mplayerhq.hu}}
+| website = {{official URL}}
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-'''MPlayer''' is a [[free software|free]] and [[open-source software|open]] [[media player (application software)|media player]] software. The program is available for several major [[operating system]]s, including [[FreeBSD]], [[Linux]], [[OS X]] and [[Microsoft Windows]].  Versions for [[OS/2]], [[Syllable Desktop|Syllable]], [[AmigaOS]], [[MorphOS]] and [[AROS Research Operating System]] are also available. A port for [[DOS]] using [[DJGPP]] is also available.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer/ |title=Index of /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer |publisher=Ibiblio.org |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01}}</ref> Versions for the [[Wii]] [[Homebrew Channel]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Erant |url=http://hackmii.com/2008/08/libdi-and-the-dvdx-installer/ |title=libdi and the DVDX installer |publisher=Hackmii.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01}}</ref> and Amazon Kindle<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gitorious.org/kindlebrew |title=kindlebrew |publisher=Gitorious |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407063924/http://gitorious.org/kindlebrew |archivedate=2012-04-07 |df= }}</ref> have also been developed.
+'''MPlayer''' is a [[free and open-source]] [[media player software]] application. It is available for [[Linux]], [[OS X]] and [[Microsoft Windows]]. Versions for [[OS/2]], [[Syllable Desktop|Syllable]], [[AmigaOS]], [[MorphOS]] and [[AROS Research Operating System]] are also available. A port for [[DOS]] using [[DJGPP]] is also available.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer/ |title=Index of /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/mplayer |publisher=Ibiblio.org |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> Versions for the [[Wii]] [[Homebrew Channel]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Erant |url=http://hackmii.com/2008/08/libdi-and-the-dvdx-installer/ |title=libdi and the DVDX installer |publisher=Hackmii.com |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> and Amazon Kindle<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gitorious.org/kindlebrew |title=kindlebrew |publisher=Gitorious |access-date=2012-01-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407063924/http://gitorious.org/kindlebrew |archive-date=2012-04-07 }}</ref> have also been developed.
 ==History==
+Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, [[Hungary|Hungarian]] Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after [[XAnim]] stopped development in 1999. The first version was titled ''mpg12play v0.1'' and was hacked together in half an hour using ''libmpeg3'' from [[Cinelerra|Cinelerra-HV]]. After ''mpg12play v0.95pre5'', the code was merged with an [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]] player based on ''avifile''{{'}}s ''[[Win32]] [[Dynamic-link library|DLL]] loader'' to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.<ref>[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/history.html History]</ref>
-{{Update|inaccurate=yes|date=June 2012}}
-Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, [[Hungary|Hungarian]] Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://xanim.polter.net/ |title=The XAnim Home Page |publisher=Xanim.polter.net |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01}}</ref> The first version was titled ''mpg12play v0.1'' and was hacked together in a half-hour using ''libmpeg3'' from {{URL|http://www.heroinewarrior.com/}}. After ''mpg12play v0.95pre5'', the code was merged with an [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]] player based on avifile's ''[[Win32]] [[Dynamic-link library|DLL]] loader'' to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.<ref>[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/history.html History]</ref>
 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=MPlayer - The Movie Player |url=http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html |accessdate=2012-06-24}}</ref>
+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.<ref>{{cite web |title=MPlayer - The Movie Player |url=http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html |access-date=2012-06-24}}</ref>
 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 ==
-There are various [[Semiconductor intellectual property core|SIP blocks]] that can accelerate video decoding computation in several formats, including [[Nvidia PureVideo|PureVideo]], [[Unified Video Decoder|UVD]], [[Intel Quick Sync Video|QuickSync Video]], [[OMAP 4|TI Ducati]] and others.
+There are various [[Semiconductor intellectual property core|SIP blocks]] that can accelerate video decoding computation in several formats, including [[Nvidia PureVideo|PureVideo]], [[Unified Video Decoder|UVD]], [[Intel Quick Sync Video|QuickSync Video]], [[OMAP 4|TI Ducati]] and others. Two studies in 2007 and 2010 implemented  hardware decoding for MPlayer,<ref name=zhang>{{Cite conference |date=2010 |title=The design and implementation of an embedded high definition player |conference=The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE) |volume=4 |vauthors=Zhang H etal}}</ref> including for specific mobile device architectures.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chang |first1=Hoseok |last2=Lee |first2=Youngjoon |last3=Sung |first3=Wonyong |chapter=Performance Optimization of a Multimedia Player on a Mobile CPU Platform |date=October 2007 |title=2007 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sips.2007.4387538 |pages=163–168 |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.1109/sips.2007.4387538|isbn=978-1-4244-1221-1 |s2cid=8023880 }}</ref>
 ==Capabilities and classification==
-MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html |title=Codec Status Table |publisher=Mplayerhq.hu |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01}}</ref> namely any format supported by [[FFmpeg]] libraries, and can also save all streamed content to a file locally.
+MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html |title=Codec Status Table |publisher=Mplayerhq.hu |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> 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 [[transcoding|transcode]] it into several different output formats, optionally applying various transforms along the way.
+A variety of [[command-line interface|command-line]] parameters allows changing the appearance of the player, including <code>-speed [number]</code>, <code>-af scaletempo</code> for changing audio speed while maintaining the pitch, <code>-ss</code> (start at ___ seconds), <code>-sb</code> (start at ___ bytes), <code>-endpos</code> (stop playing at ___ seconds), <code>-novideo</code> for only playing the audio track of a video, and <code>-loop [number]</code> for looping.<ref>MPlayer documentation and user manual</ref>
 ==Media formats==
 [[File:MPlayer cmd win32.png|thumb|MPlayer being run via command line in Microsoft Windows.]]
-MPlayer can play many formats, including:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html |title=MPlayer Features |publisher=Mplayerhq.hu |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01}}</ref>
+MPlayer can play many formats, including:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html |title=MPlayer Features |publisher=Mplayerhq.hu |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref>
 * '''Physical media''': [[compact disc|CDs]], [[DVD]]s, [[Video CD]]s, [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]] discs
 * '''[[Container format (digital)|Container format]]s''': [[3GP]], [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]], [[Advanced Systems Format|ASF]], [[FLV]], [[Matroska]], [[QuickTime|MOV (QuickTime)]], [[MP4]], NUT, [[Ogg]], [[OGM]], [[RealMedia]], [[Bink Video|Bink]]
-* '''[[Template:Compression Formats|Video formats]]''': [[Cinepak]], [[DV]], [[H.263]], [[H.264/MPEG-4 AVC]], [[HuffYUV]], [[Indeo]], [[MJPEG]], [[MPEG-1]], [[MPEG-2]], [[MPEG-4 Part 2]], [[RealVideo]], [[Sorenson codec|Sorenson]], [[Theora]], [[WMV]], [[Bink Video|Bink]]
+* '''[[Template:Compression Formats|Video formats]]''': [[Cinepak]], [[DV (video format)|DV]], [[H.263]], [[H.264/MPEG-4 AVC]], [[HuffYUV]], [[Indeo]], [[MJPEG]], [[MPEG-1]], [[MPEG-2]], [[MPEG-4 Part 2]], [[RealVideo]], [[Sorenson codec|Sorenson]], [[Theora]], [[Windows Media Video|WMV]], [[Bink Video|Bink]]
 * '''Audio formats''': [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]], [[Dolby AC-3|AC3]], [[Apple Lossless|ALAC]], [[Adaptive Multi-Rate|AMR]], [[DTS (sound system)|DTS]], [[FLAC]], Intel Music Coder, [[Monkey's Audio]], [[MP3]], [[Musepack]], [[RealAudio]], [[Shorten (file format)|Shorten]], [[Speex]], [[Vorbis]], [[Windows Media Audio|WMA]], [[Bink Video|Bink]]
 * '''[[Subtitles|Subtitle formats]]''': AQTitle, [[SubStation Alpha|ASS/SSA]], [[Closed captioning|CC]], JACOsub, [[MicroDVD]], MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, [[SAMI|Sami]], [[SubRip|SRT]], SubViewer, [[VobSub|VOBsub]], VPlayer
-* '''Image formats''': [[BMP file format|BMP]], [[JPEG]], [[Multiple-image Network Graphics|MNG]], [[PCX]], PTX<!--Pentax RAW Image?-->, [[Truevision TGA|TGA]], [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]], [[Silicon Graphics Image|SGI]], [[Sun Raster]]
+* '''Image formats''': [[BMP file format|BMP]], [[JPEG]], [[Multiple-image Network Graphics|MNG]], [[PCX]], PTX<!--Pentax RAW Image?-->, [[Truevision TGA|TGA]], [[Tag Image File Format|TIFF]], [[Silicon Graphics Image|SGI]], [[Sun Raster]]
-* '''Protocols''': [[Real-time Transport Protocol|RTP]], [[Real Time Streaming Protocol|RTSP]], [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]], [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]], [[Microsoft Media Services|MMS]], Netstream (mpst://), [[Server Message Block|SMB]], ffmpeg:// (Uses [[FFmpeg]]'s protocol implementations)
+* '''Protocols''': [[Real-time Transport Protocol|RTP]], [[Real Time Streaming Protocol|RTSP]], [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]], [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]], [[Microsoft Media Services|MMS]], Netstream ({{mono|mpst://}}), [[Server Message Block|SMB]], {{mono|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]], [[Simple DirectMedia Layer|SDL]] and rarer ones such as [[ASCII art]] (using [[AAlib]] and [[libcaca]]) and [[Project Blinkenlights|Blinkenlights]]. It can also be used to display TV from a TV card using the device <tt>{{not a typo|tv}}://channel</tt>, or play and capture radio channels via <tt>radio://channel|frequency</tt>.
+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]], [[Simple DirectMedia Layer|SDL]] and rarer ones such as [[ASCII art]] (using [[AAlib]] and [[libcaca]]) and [[Project Blinkenlights|Blinkenlights]]. It can also be used to display TV from a TV card using the device {{mono|{{not a typo|tv}}://channel}}, or play and capture radio channels via {{mono|radio://channel{{!}}frequency}}.
 Since version 1.0RC1, Mplayer can decode subtitles in [[SubStation Alpha|ASS/SSA]] subtitle format, using [[libass]].
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 * [[Avisynth]]
-== {{Anchor|Gnome MPlayer|gMplayer|}}Interface and graphical front-ends==
+== {{Anchor|GNOME MPlayer|gMplayer|}}Interface and graphical front-ends==
 [[File:Gnome-MPlayer v1.0.9 on Debian 8.png|thumb|Gnome-MPlayer v1.0.9 on [[GNOME]]]]
-Like [[GStreamer]], MPlayer is a [[Command line interface|command-line]] application and there are a couple of front-ends available, which use [[GUI widget]]s of [[GTK+]], [[Qt (software)|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.
+Like [[GStreamer]], MPlayer has only [[command line interface]] and there are a couple of [[Front-end (computing)|front-end]]s available, which use [[GUI widget]]s of [[GTK]], [[Qt (software)|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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README|title=README|accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/gui.html|title=What about the GUI?|accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref>) and '''Gnome-MPlayer'''
+* [[GTK]]-based are '''gmplayer''' (official)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README|title=README|access-date=2016-03-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/gui.html|title=What about the GUI?|access-date=2016-03-19}}</ref> and '''Gnome-MPlayer'''
 * [[Qt (software)|Qt]]-based are [[SMPlayer]] and <abbr title="Konqueror Media Player">KMPlayer</abbr>, among others.
-* [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]]-based are MPlayer OS X Extended and MPlayerX<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerosx.ch/ |title=MPlayer OSX Extended |date= 2011-12-09 |accessdate= 2015-01-23 }}</ref>
+* [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]]-based are MPlayer OS X Extended and MPlayerX<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerosx.ch/ |title=MPlayer OSX Extended |date= 2011-12-09 |access-date= 2015-01-23 }}</ref>
 ==Forks==
-'''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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTI0Ng |title=Is MPlayer2 a viable fork of MPlayer? |publisher=[[Phoronix]] |date=2011-03-24 |accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html |title=mplayer2 differences from mplayer |date=2011 |accessdate={{date|2015-05-04|mdy}} |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504055423/http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html |archivedate=May 4, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ostatic.com/blog/did-you-know-there-was-a-fork-of-mplayer |title=Did You Know there was a Fork of MPlayer? |publisher=ostatic.com |date=2011-03-22 |accessdate=2011-11-29}}</ref> The developers also indicated intentions to enable MPlayer2 to use libav as an alternative to ffmpeg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.gentoo.org/scarabeus/2013/01/15/libav-going-to-be-default-provider-for-your-codec-experience/#comment-2705|title=Libav going to be default provider for your codec experience (comment)|date={{date|2013-01-16|mdy}}}}</ref> The first release, 2.0, was published in March 2011. There have been no subsequent stable releases.
+'''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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTI0Ng |title=Is MPlayer2 a viable fork of MPlayer? |publisher=[[Phoronix]] |date=2011-03-24 |access-date=2014-04-18}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html |title=mplayer2 differences from mplayer |date=2011 |access-date=May 4, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504055423/http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html |archive-date=May 4, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ostatic.com/blog/did-you-know-there-was-a-fork-of-mplayer |title=Did You Know there was a Fork of MPlayer? |publisher=ostatic.com |date=2011-03-22 |access-date=2011-11-29}}</ref> The developers also indicated intentions to enable MPlayer2 to use [[Libav]] as an alternative to ffmpeg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.gentoo.org/scarabeus/2013/01/15/libav-going-to-be-default-provider-for-your-codec-experience/#comment-2705|title=Libav going to be default provider for your codec experience (comment)|date=January 16, 2013}}</ref> The first release, 2.0, was published in March 2011. There have been no subsequent stable releases.
-'''[[mpv (media player)|mpv]]'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mpv.io|title=mpv.io|accessdate=2015-01-28}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/2033|title=Possible LGPL relicensing|accessdate=2016-09-27}}</ref>
+'''[[mpv (media player)|mpv]]'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mpv.io|title=mpv.io|access-date=2015-01-28}}</ref> is a GPLv2-licensed fork of mplayer2. Since June 2015, mpv has worked to relicense its code as [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]] v2.1 or above.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/2033|title=Possible LGPL relicensing|website=[[GitHub]]|access-date=2016-09-27}}</ref>
-MPlayer, MPlayer2 and mpv all use incompatible [[Edit decision list|EDL]] formats.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html|title=3.7. Edit Decision Lists (EDL)|accessdate=21 Jul 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717212428/http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html|archivedate=2015-07-17|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://devel.mplayer2.org/changeset/968154ba77f8e8974d6dd36d1109a473b3ff5b6c/|title=EDL: add support for new EDL file format|work=MPlayer2|archiveurl=http://pastebin.com/ZYPSqjSW|archivedate=16 Mar 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/edl-mpv.rst|title=EDL files|work=mpv|date=25 Oct 2014|accessdate=21 Jul 2015}}</ref>
+MPlayer, MPlayer2 and mpv all use incompatible [[Edit decision list|EDL]] formats.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html|title=3.7. Edit Decision Lists (EDL)|access-date=21 Jul 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717212428/http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html|archive-date=2015-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://devel.mplayer2.org/changeset/968154ba77f8e8974d6dd36d1109a473b3ff5b6c/|title=EDL: add support for new EDL file format|work=MPlayer2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425211510/http://devel.mplayer2.org/changeset/968154ba77f8e8974d6dd36d1109a473b3ff5b6c|archive-date=25 April 2011}} [http://pastebin.com/ZYPSqjSW Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/edl-mpv.rst|title=EDL files|work=mpv|date=25 Oct 2014|access-date=21 Jul 2015}}</ref>
 ==Legal controversy==
-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.<ref name="2004-03">{{cite web |title=MPlayer - The Movie Player |date=2004-01-10 |url=http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news-archive.html#kiss05 |accessdate=2012-06-24}}</ref> 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.<ref name="2004-03" />
+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.<ref name="2004-03">{{cite web |title=MPlayer - The Movie Player |date=2004-01-10 |url=http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news-archive.html#kiss05 |access-date=2012-06-24}}</ref> 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.<ref name="2004-03" />
 ==See also==
-{{Portal|Free software}}
+{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
-* [[MEncoder]]
+* [[FFmpeg]]
 * [[VLC media player]]
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 ==External links==
 {{commons|MPlayer}}
-{{wikibook}}
+{{wikibooks}}
-* {{official website|https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html}}
+* {{official website}}
 {{Media player (application software)|free}}
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 [[Category:Software that uses FFmpeg]]
 [[Category:SVGAlib programs]]
-[[Category:Video software that uses GTK+]]
+[[Category:Video software that uses GTK]]
 [[Category:Windows media players]]
+[[Category:Software using the GPL license]]
+[[Category:Software DVD players]]