NewsForge: Mplayer Revisited

“It’s been almost two years since I wrote about Mplayer, an open
source movie player for Linux and other platforms. Rereading that
story today, I see I was wrong when I predicted that Mplayer’s
popularity wouldn’t last. It continues to rank as the most popular
project on freshmeat.net. I recently downloaded pre-release 1 of
Mplayer 1.0 to see how much things have changed, if at all, since
then. What I found is that while some things have changed, others
have not.

“In December of 2001, Mplayer had the rep of playing more codecs
than any other movie player for Linux. The list of codecs–both
audio and video–that it supports today is quite impressive. And if
you add the mplayer plug-in you can leverage Mplayer’s repertoire
and play the most popular video formats used online in Mozilla,
Galeon, Netscape, and maybe Opera, too…”

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