MPlayer

MPlayer

MPlayer on Linux using the gMplayer front-end
Developer(s)	MPlayer team
Initial release	2000; 17 years ago (2000)
Stable release	1.3.0 (February 16, 2016; 12 months ago (2016-02-16))
Preview release	SVN snapshot
Repository	svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk
Written in	C
Platform	Cross-platform
Available in	English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish
Type	Media player
License	GNU GPLv2
Website	mplayerhq.hu

MPlayer is a free and open media player software. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux, macOS and other Unix-like systems, as well as for 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. Versions for the Wii Homebrew Channel and Amazon Kindle have also been developed.

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 a half-hour using libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com. 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. 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.