I prefer MPlayer X because of the QuickTime like disappearing of the title bar and play controls compared to VLC. I also like being able to hit the arrow keys to go back and forward rather than having to always scroll. A binary distribution of MPlayer - the movie player for Linux.
About the App. App name: mplayer. App description: UNIX movie player. App website: Install the App. Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key. Run in Terminal app: ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL /dev/null and press enter/return key.
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If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish.
Run: brew install mplayer Done! You can now use mplayer.
Yes, finally sources are available in CVS repository. I think that they are quite well commented but I still want to write some documentation to let the software design be better understood. Now I'm still working on it in my spare time so the sources are all the time 'hot and fresh'.
Note that the the font files are not included in CVS and I want to remove the mplayer binary application too and distribute it as a separate release. Though the MPlayer OS X release will of course contain all these files so it plays movies out of the box. Posted by 2003-04-26. I was too lazy to make the disk image. The sit file contains only application other files are on the beta1 disk image. Changes: - The wide-screen aspect ratio should be fixed now, but I didn't test it (thanks to Devros). Please report me how it works.
Fixed problem when setting video to fit screen when the video have lower aspect ratio then monitor. Added font menu and support for adding fonts -(Fonts folder inside app bundle Resources). The mplayer supports only PC TrueType fonts and the old 'font.desc' fonts (should be enclosed in a folder). The size of subtitles were slightly decreased.
The full-screen progress bar is back. Posted by 2003-04-10. MPlayer OSX is multimedia player with playlist, supporting playback of all widely used media types (MPEG 1-4, DivX, AVI, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, RealMedia, QuickTime Movie, MPEG layer 1-3, AC3, WindowsMediaAudio and more) and movie subtitles of various formats (MicroDVD Player, Subrip and more). It is based on Mac OS X port of MPlayer - Movie Player for Linux. This new version includes latest build of MPlayer binary and few features distributed as standalone application without need of additional installation of binaries, libraries and other stuff. Posted by 2003-02-03.