MPlayer OSX Extended

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About

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:

• 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

Screenshots

Downloads

MPlayer OSX Extended - Revision 12 (21.6MB, 18. October 2009, OSX 10.5)
Download from Google Code.

Note: The first time MPlayer OSX plays a video, fontconfig will build it's font cache. This can take a while but only has to be done once.

MPlayer Binary Codec Package (x86/PCC)
Download from MPlayer.
Installing the binary codec pack for your architecture will add support for additional proprietary codecs. For x86 (Intel), those include WMV9, RealVideo 10, QuickTime and others. For PPC they only include the Real Codecs.
The x86 codec pack will not work with 64bit MPlayer. The easiest way to force Extended to use 32bit version is to use rev11, for the time being.

Past versions
Starting from rev12, MPlayer OSX Extended requires at least OSX 10.5 (Leopard). The last version to run on 10.4 (Tiger) is rev11, which can be downloaded here.
The full revision backlog can be viewed and downlaoded in the wiki.

Development

The source can be found in the SVN repository. To get a copy, issue following command in the terminal:

svn co svn://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/mplayerosx/trunk/ mplayerosx

There's a tracker with a Wiki containing information about the project, an issue tracker and an SVN browser:

MPlayerOSX Extended Development Tracker

Feel free to open tickets for problems and feature requests.

Changes

• Revision 12 (18. October 2009)
  
  • This update requires at least OSX 10.5 (Leopard)!
  • Highlights
    • Compatible with OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
    • GUI and MPlayer are now 64bit compatible (~20-50% faster)
  • Changes
    • Chapter support no longer limited to MKV
    • Refine the behavior of the Apple Remote's combined skip/seek buttons
  • Bugfixes
    • Fix two Snow Leopard issues
    • Fix additional parameters being ignored in some cases (especially -vf-add/-af-add)
    • Fix loading of subtitles with an apostrophe in their path
    • Fix player window from appearing in fullscreen when using on top while playing
    • Don't set the -monitoraspect MPlayer option (use Additional Parameters if needed)
    • Fix fullscreen controls disappearing when being dragged
  • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 18. October 2009 (r29777)
• Revision 11 (27. June 2009)
  
  • 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)
• Revision 10 (18. April 2009)
  
  • Much improved scrubbing bar
  • Fix font selection
  • Fix video size options in preferences
  • Add NSV and FLV to file types
  • Fix skipping buttons on player window and on fullscreen controls
  • Fix crash when opening a file after another one was already opened
  • Fix a memory leak in MPlayer when used with the internal video output
  • Fix playback with more than 8 cores
  • Some performance and size optimiziations
  • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 18. April 2009 (r29185)
• Revision 9 (08. April 2009)
  
  • Support for multithreaded decoding (FFmpeg-MT - still experimental)
  • Custom aspect ratio from preferences selectable in aspect ratio menu
  • Option to disable animated transitions of the interface
  • Add missing file types (flac, m2ts)
  • Support opening URLs from other applications (like a Browser)
  • Subtitles can now be dragged onto the player or opened in the finder to load them while a movie is playing
  • Save fullscreen controls position relative to screen
  • Support opening multiple files at once in the Finder or by dragging onto the icon
  • Updated deinterlace options
  • Option to skip loop filters (H264)
  • Add option to update to prereleases through Sparkle
  • Various bug fixes
  • Dropped support for PPC without altivec
  • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 07. April 2009 (r29150)
• Revision 8 (09. January 2009)
  
  • Fullscreen controls
  • Automatic updates with Sparkle
  • Font and font style selection with Fontconfig
  • Automatic detection of subtitle encoding for supported languages
  • Improved and expanded font, subtitles and osd options
  • Options for AC3 and DTS pass-through
  • Internal video output support for multiple gui instances
  • Better Fontconfig cache warning
  • Fix going back to fullscreen on Tiger
  • Fix some memory related issues
  • Other small fixes
  • Includes MPlayer build r28284 from 9. January 2009
• Revision 7 (20. October 2008)
  
  • Fixed internal video output on Tiger
  • Fixed internal video output with too little shared memory
  • Fixed aspect ratio preferences
  • Improved fullscreen transition for internal video output
  • Support for the Apple Remote
  • Various other small bug fixes
  • Updated mplayer binary to r27807 from 20. Oct 2008
• Changelog for older revisions...

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MPlayer OSX Extended is free software and released under the GNU GPLv2 license.

MPlayer OSX Extended is developed by Adrian Stutz.

MPlayer OSX Extended is an unofficial modification of the MPlayer OSX project, maintained by Nicolas Plourde. See AUTHORS.rtf in the download for a complete list of developers.

The official MPlayer project can be found at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

The icon was taken from the Tango Desktop Project.