MPlayer 1.2 "FrameCounter" was released on October 3, 2015
Our latest release was getting stale, so it's time to make a new one.
Mplayer 1.2 is compatible with the recent FFmpeg 2.8 release. The
tarball already includes a copy of FFmpeg, so you don't need to fetch
it separately. Due to some big API changes coming to FFmpeg, this
release will not work with new FFmpeg master branch, nor with future
FFmpeg releases.
If you want to follow the latest improvements in MPlayer and FFmpeg,
you are strongly encouraged to use Subversion HEAD and benefit from the
latest features and bug fixes. You know how to do it. Because you
aren't using a 3 years old release, hopefully. If you are, read on and
find out what you missed!
VDPAU hardware accelerated decoding now works for HEVC (if your card
and driver supports it). Hardware accelerated decoding is now supported
also on Os X via VDA. VAAPI is still unsupported, but you can use it
via VDPAU wrapper at least for H.264.
A lot of new codecs, thanks to FFmpeg. The list includes HEVC, VP9 and
Prores; Opus, improved AAC and DTS decoders; WebP and JPEG2000; and
many, many others. Also rtsp streaming now uses FFmpeg by default, so
you don't need any additional library to use it. For the full list of
improvements and bugfixes check the FFmpeg Changelog (note: not all
features are available through MPlayer at the moment, especially
filters).
Many GUI improvements, both in functionality (eg. TV and DVB support)
and appearance. If you use the GUI, be sure to grab also the latest
version of your favorite skin, or try a new one. You can get them here.
The GUI now officially needs version 2 of GTK+ and GLib (compilation
with older version was already broken for quite some time).
Starting from this release, MPlayer no longer ships with an internal
copy of libdvdnav and libdvdcss. You can use the libraries provided
with your distribution, or compile and install them yourself. They will
be autodetect at configuration time. If your distribution does not
include libdvdcss you can usually grab it from non-official
repositories, or you can dowload the latest source code form its
homepage.
The tarballs are compressed with xz, for compatibility with odd systems
they are available also with gzip compression. Please get the xz
variant if you can to save bandwidth.
MPlayer 1.2 can be downloaded by HTTP or FTP (xz, 13 MB or gzip, 19 MB)
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.2.tar.xz
ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.2.tar.xz
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.2.tar.gz
xz MD5SUM: 58409fccb8ef33013fb780405405491f
xz SHA1SUM: 64fad840dfae466ab5ef3be2b6c74058892cd981
gz MD5SUM: 55323dffe79c31a8d5e90fac5a5d0428
gz SHA1SUM: bcc882a838619c85f57f9888551a72a746303cd6
