MPlayer2 Is Still Alive & Kicking

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MPlayer2 Is Still Alive & Kicking

Back in March I reported on the MPlayer2 fork of the popular MPlayer multi-media application. MPlayer2 came as a result of one of the MPlayer developers being denounced from the group and from there the developer and others took to implementing their own desired features and functionality from a fork of the open-source code-base. But how's the MPlayer2 project now doing?..

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTc4Mg

[Azpegath]

And they also threw away the unmaintainable GUI code, I think that was a wise choice (as they called it unmaintainable).

[crazycheese]

Typos: it is "mplayer2" and "MPlayer".
Not "MPlayer2".

[C-MoH]

Well, mencoder is a cool tool. I hope they get back on their decision.

[Teho]

Well, mencoder is a cool tool. I hope they get back on their decision.

Arch Linux packages it separately, is there any advantage over this approarch in including it in mplayer2 itself?

[lidow]

What about some kind of comparison. Is it really mplayer2 better than MPlayer?

[bachinchi]

VLC all the way!

[Kano]

mplayer2 has m2ts subtitle support, so it is definitely better. thats why i would like to see a vaapi patch for mplayer2.

[LiquidAcid]

mplayer2 has m2ts subtitle support, so it is definitely better. thats why i would like to see a vaapi patch for mplayer2.

Seconding this. vaapi support is the only missing feature now for me. Still using the mplayer-vaapi version from splitted-desktop, plus a mplayer2 binary and a regular (vanilla) mplayer binary.

[AnonymousCoward]

yesterday I had some files that mplayer2 could not play at all, I installed Mplayer and no problem... sad cause I liked the don't unpause on fullscreen and other actions...