mplayer2

mplayer2 is an advanced general-purpose video player. A fork of the original MPlayer.

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mplayer2 is an advanced generalpurpose video player. a fork of the original mplayer project, it contains significant further development and supports a number of features not available in other players.

improvements over mplayer better pause handling in mplayer executing any commands forced the player to unpause. this is no longer the case; in mplayer2 you can change settings, seek, or run other commands while paused. better matroska support easy to use multithreading support much better support for vdpau functionality on nvidia cards support for precise seeks it's now possible to seek to any frame in the video; seeks are no longer necessarily limited to keyframes. support for gettextbased translations

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Portable Support for Multiple threads

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mplayer2

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The Best 61 mplayer2 Alternatives

VLC Media Player

MPC-HC

Media Player Classic

KMPlayer

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SMPlayer

Windows Media Player

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MPV

MX Player

QuickTime Player

UMPlayer

Videos

SPlayer

MPC-BE

MPlayerX

RealPlayer

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Flip4Mac

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