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{{Website|MPlayer|https://mplayerhq.hu/}}
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MPlayer (from ''The Movie Player'') is a cross-platform [[media player]] released under GPLv2. The recommended way to install is to compile source code from <abbr title="Apache Subversion">SVN</abbr>, though builds (binaries) are available from third parties. Numerous [https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#skins skins] are available&mdash;by default there is no skin, meaning no graphical user interface.

Work on the project began in 2000 and is still actively developed as of 2019, with extensive documentation and support lists.

There are common elements between {{VLC}} and MPlayer, and the two projects share at least one contributor (Diego Biurrun).<!--Did Loren Merritt work directly on MPlayer?--> VLC [https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html#mplayer_code reuses] the MPlayer {{VLCSourceFile|modules/video_chroma/swscale.c|l=swscale}} software scaler library (included with FFmpeg) and MPlayer can be [https://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/codec-installation.html#x264 extended] with the VideoLAN [[x264]] library. [[libdvdnav]] and [[libdvdcss]] were included with MPlayer [https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html#mplayer12 until 1.2]. VLC and MPlayer both currently use [[FFmpeg]] to [https://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html support] many codecs, and [https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html#notdead work is done] to keep MPlayer, VLC and FFmpeg codec support in sync.

== Links ==
* [https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html MPlayer - Overview]
* [https://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html MPlayer - FAQ]
* [https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html MPlayer - Download]
* [[wikibooks:MPlayer|Wikibooks - MPlayer]]

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