MPlayer 1.0 initially entered its release candidate phase in 2006 followed by a second release candidate in October of 2007. MPlayer 1.0 RC3 is compatible with the FFmpeg 0.5.x branch and the new features it brings, support for new binary codecs, NVIDIA VDPAU acceleration, support for new architectures / platforms, and other changes.

We have already discussed how to install mplayer,mutimedia codecs and firefox plugin in ubuntu 9.10 this tutorial we will see two nice frontends for mplayer

You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this.

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer (video player), from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

MPlayer, the free movie player, has a critical vulnerability according to an advisory from OCert.

You can increase your MPlayer's soft volume to 300% by just typing this simple command at terminal:

Nice article at Phoronix about adding VA-API (short for Video Acceleration API) support in mplayer and ffmpeg.

In this two-part article series I'll look at two ways to possibly improve your h264 playback with MPlayer: using multiple CPU cores and using the GPU to offload the decoding. I'll include benchmarks so you can see the effect each of these has on performance.

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2.