MPlayer for Mac

Name: MPlayer
Rating: 3.4 (18 reviews)
Author: The MPlayer Project

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MPlayer is a free multimedia player designed for Mac users, capable of handling a wide variety of media formats. This application supports video, audio, and even streaming content, making it a comprehensive tool for media consumption. Users can enjoy playback of numerous file types, including popular formats such as AVI, MP4, and MKV, ensuring flexibility in media choices.

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Equipped with customizable settings, MPlayer allows users to tailor their viewing experience. Features include subtitle support, video scaling, and various audio output options. The program's lightweight nature enhances performance, providing smooth playback without demanding excessive system resources. With its ability to decode multiple codecs, MPlayer serves as a robust solution for those seeking an efficient multimedia player on Mac.

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GENERAL

Release: January 30, 2011

Latest update: June 11, 2026

Version: 1.0rc4

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System

Mac OS X 10.5
Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4
Mac OS X 10.6

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 18,064

Downloads Last Week: 0

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3.4/5

18 User Votes

This is a Source Code DIY Compilation Version!
zunipusJanuary 31, 2011
Pros
A useful free Open Source media player that allows you to play obscure media.
Cons
It's geekware! If you aren't a geek, you don't want to play with this version. Get an older version OR better yet MPlayer OSX Extended.
Summary
It's great this the MPlayer project lives on! It allows you to play a variety of media that you can't play otherwise except perhaps in VLC. It is well worth supporting. Unfortunately, the project doesn't go beyond providing source code. You have to compile it for Mac all by yourself, which can be very scary and is fraught with the usual minimal and obscure documentation, CLI typing, testing and patience. The README file included provides the bare bones to get you going. But if you haven't installed the latest Apple XCode and haven't compiled code before, you do NOT want to play in this sandbox. However, if you are a geekaholic, this is fun!
Good
macgruderDecember 26, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Sometimes better than VLC so between the two of them I can play most things.
Talk about Old News
smiffy56December 3, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. RC2? Release Candidate 2 is not available for the mac judging by the downloads listed. RC1 has been around for quite a number of months. Why is this download listed as a new version? There is nothing new here for Mac OSX - especially for Leopard users.
always worked very good for me
loldhamsFebruary 22, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. never had any issues with the beta or this version...i play my avi files through them...even when the program is split into two parts the playlist works a charm.
Subtitle font selection fails
adisekerFebruary 3, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. When I try to pick a font for subtitles, it gives me a limited choice of fonts from my system, far fewer than I have installed, and any font I pick fails. The error log says "unable to open Bitmap font", but none of the fonts that it lists are bitmap fonts. With no font selected, I don't see subtitles.
Stability?
PearlBlueSoulJanuary 25, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. I've had issues playing back AVI media, particularly to the point where it has (on several occasions) stopped responding to inputs. It will still play the movie but not respond. It REALLY hates it when you use the timeline to click a starting point or scrub through the video. Also, it may be a nit-picky thing, but where's the "close window" command?? I felt prior versions were more stable.
Stability?
PearlBlueSoulJanuary 25, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. I've had issues playing back AVI media, particularly to the point where it has (on several occasions) stopped responding to inputs. It will still play the movie but not respond. Maybe a nit-picky thing, but where's the "close window" command?? I felt prior versions were more stable.
The Best
NutMacApril 18, 2006
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Universal Binary - Excellent! My 20" iMac Core Duo thanks you. Although VLC has a larger following (at least among Mac users), I find MPlayer's UI to be far superior, with ever so useful arrow key for scrubbing/shuttling. Furthermore, its preferences are far better organized and logical and the UI is more QuickTime Player-like.
Happy
SchmiegelApril 18, 2006
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. I'm happy that the development of this application goes on. This version isn't just only UB but fixes some bugs with fullscreen and continuos playback too. Very Good!
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AppleBeerFebruary 6, 2006
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Upon attempting to use this to open several items I find this only to give sound and not video? A big disappointment to me as what others attempt to do this one does not save the day. So if windows media, quicktime, VLC, real player will not open do not expect this one to help. So this leaves you wondering what will open it? Even downloading free codec's does not help. Does anyone reading this have any suggestions? Are we the ones missing something valuable? I am sorry but I can only issue feedback that we tried MPlayer OSX but it failed to help! To the creators of this software can you give us any valuable information on what your player will do and will not do? Thank you!

Developer’s Description

By The MPlayer Project

Movie player for DivX & other formats.

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

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User Reviews

This is a Source Code DIY Compilation Version!

Good

Talk about Old News

always worked very good for me

Subtitle font selection fails

Stability?

Stability?

The Best

Happy

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