LITTLEB  playlist doesn't seem to be working in this version snow leopard

also mplayer extended is one of those programs due to it being a one man job that may never or may at a time of eternity be updated

want me recommendation use vlc at-least they give nightly builds  
(Version rev12)

KATUZERO  Remote control can't work.(Snow Leopard 10.6.2)  
(Version rev12)

ROBOTANK  I quite like MPlayer OS X Extended, and I use it as my default video player. For some reason, though, I've never been able to get its DVD playing feature to work properly. After opening a VIDEO_TS folder, MPlayer invariably hangs or just doesn't do anything. I'm wondering if it's because it's not capable of reading encrypted DVDs, but I can't find any documentation on this either way. If this is the case, it might be nice to be able to direct MPlayer to an existing copy of libdvdcss so it could decode encrypted VIDEO_TS. I would appreciate any feedback on this matter.  
(Version rev12)

ILGAZ  So, a single Developer/Packager can make a 10.4/PPC compatible Application which is also 10.6 64bit.

You should notify multi billion dollar companies about this... They keep dropping 10.4 and even 10.5 /ppc support using Apple as excuse. See, with stock XCode, one can do this kind of support, backwards compatibility.

Long live open source and caring developers really.  
(Version rev12)

DR. GIRLFRIEND  MPlayer Extended's in the house - and now with 64bit goodness!

I haven't used Mplayer Extended for a while because I'd been satisfied with Movist and VLC, but the latter two apps are having issues under Snow Leopard: Movist chews through memory like Jaws on a surfer and VLC is acting stupid by hanging/crashing on exit. MPlayer Extended to the rescue!

After install, this message appeared: fontconfig needs to update its font cache; this may take a few minutes (it did), but once completed, it was smooth sailing. Setup and configuration was a breeze, unlike VLC, which tends to have necessary settings hidden under arcane menu options.

Very pleasant GUI and smooth, unjittery playback. Memory usage was impressively low.

Unfortunately, I did run into a few problems:

Remember last played movie and position doesn't work. (playlist option).

ESC does not make fullscreen shrink to small screen it closes movie entirely! Oops! Not good. Most players just shrink the screen, not close it. I'd like to see an option to change this annoying behavior.

Still, MPlayer Extended is a great improvement from previous versions and is good enough to use as your default media player. Nice work, devs. Thanks!

  
(Version rev12)

NONTROPPO  The new updates for Snow Leopard are fantastic, my CPU use has dropped considerably. This is a very solid media player, and I use both this and VLC as each have their respective strengths and weaknesses; both a substantially better than Quicktime + Perian for my needs.  
(Version rev12)

SUNDAYS  Works very well. But I recommand VLC.  
(Version rev12)

WERTY  The best video player for mac os x  
(Version rev12)

NYMPHE  Very good player. I always prefer it to VLC. I was using Movist for a long time but some times it does crash and doesn't work properly.

The only thing which I miss from Movist is that in Movist the subtitles in wide screen movies are on the bottom side of the screen, not the movie. To be more clear about that; if some movie is wide screen and you have horizontal black bars on the top and bottom side of the screen, Movist shows the subtitles there, whereas Mplayer shows them directly on the movie.

Is there any possible way of utilizing the whole screen at Mplayer?  
(Version rev12)

TMC  rev12 very good.

fix the problem in previous verison about when u play rmvb, the control bar disappear.

and rev12 play rmvb very smoothly and open rmvb quickly than previous veriosn.  
(Version rev12)

JICHI  Best choice in Mac for those who always watch movies with Unicode SSA/ASS subtitles like me!

I hope there will be more options to render the subtitles in different ways (Currently (rev11) only resize is supported. ), such as options to change the transparency of the subtitle which is supported in Korean KMPlayer for Windows.

Anyway, thanks to the Author, I can enjoy my Anime collections in Mac now!!  
(Version rev12)

DROOPYSIGNAL  Just downloaded rev12 and now I can't get the Quartz/Quicktime to work in video output!  
(Version rev12)

CASTLE  This has become my default media player, though VLC is sometimes needed for trickier files. The only thing I really miss from VLC, though, is the 10 second jump when hitting an arrow key/the forward button. MPlayer seems to jump about 1 minute, and you have to hold alt to get a short jump. Any chance of getting a way to specify the jump duration?  
(Version rev11)

JON555  This is an awesome player. I love VLC, but it has trouble with subtitles at times. This player always seems to pull through. My only complaints:

The decoding and filters are a bit of a headache to set up if you don't know the difference between them. And it doesn't provide any real explanation of each setting, or which is better/worse. I want it to look/sound as best as possible, but I have no idea which settings are suited for that. This is one area where VLC has this player beat.

The default subtitles (when they work) in VLC are crisp and anti-aliased and always appear in a good, readable size that isn't too big or small. With this player you have to tweak them a bit to get it to look good.

Again though, this is a fantastic player. Keep up the good work devs!  
(Version rev11)

VIKRAM SHARMA  This is brilliant player, this to me looks and behaves like an app that's written specially for OS X. I have a PowerMac G5, this version feels lighter than the original MPlayer 1.0 rc2. This to me is like KMPlayer of Windows for OS X, plays virtually all the formats. Thanks to the developers involved in the MPLayer OS X Extended app for their effort, no good good deed in my opinion should go unappreciated.  
(Version rev11)

ORANGGILA  Nice Player

I've looking for ages for player like this

VLC can not show proper subtitle fonts in mkv files like in windows, but with this Mplayer i can watch my favorites tv shows at easy  
(Version rev11)

JONATHAN GUBLER  Great to see this updated again - v11 is the only player with smooth 720p playback on my ancient Dual G5...  
(Version rev11)

NED SCOTT  MPlayer in general runs better on both my new Macbook Pro and my old G5 tower. MPlayer OSX Extended is the best way to use MPlayer. The GUI excellent.  
(Version rev11)

THEFINALEOFSEEM  Excellent software. Simple yet effective. Seems to do better than Quicktime in many cases and is definitely better at decoding than VLC. All it needs is good, clean multithreaded FFMPEG decoding support (it's currently in there, but it's noted as buggy) and this will be the perfect media player. Keep up the good work!  
(Version rev11)

ROBOTANK  MPlayer OSX Extended seems very good overall, but I've never managed to get it to properly open a VIDEO_TS folder. With encrypted disks it fails to load at all, and with unencrypted disks, it displays the picture with errors (i.e. weird colours, broken picutre, etc.). All discs that have failed in MPlayer work in VLC and Apple DVD Player. Anyone else have more luck with this aspect of the app?  
(Version rev11)

ILGAZ  I have the ancient version, the one built years ago and it can play h264 720P HDTV on a Mac Mini G4 1.42 Ghz. It is totally impossible using any player on that configuration. Even Apple's highly optimized h264 decoder fails.

Regardless of configuration you have, just try it once and you will be really surprised.

BTW, as you can notice, they didn't abandon 10.4 people too ;)  
(Version rev10)

JICHI  MPlayer is good but hard to control; VLC is easy to control but inefficient in decoding and rendering. Hence MPlayer OSX Extended is the best for me, and just remind me of the KMPlayer in Windows.

I just visited the official MPlayer download page, but found "outdated" mark on the OSX 1.0rc2 version released on Feb, 2008. I really hope MPlayer and this OSX Extension will keep developing, and maybe one day will beat plex, vlc, qt and anyother player if new hard-coded support of h.264 for linux is also added to OSX version of MPlayer.

BTW, the compatible codecs for MPlayer and also MPlayer OSX Extended can be found here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-macosx-x86-20060611.zip  
(Version rev10)

PARTHIBAN M  To keep it simple, this beats VLC for me. It is definitely more stable than VLC, which has gotten to be a little shaky in the recent revisions. MPlayer OSX Extended also plays my 720p and 1080p movies the smoothest. Quicktime 7 chokes on some 1080p movies, and VLC has screen corruption if the bitrate is too high. MPlayer, lags the least out of all the other players, and this is only for really high bitrate 1080p movies. For everything else, its smooth as butter. Another cool thing is how impressively fast you can scroll the timeline on 1080p videos. It's literally instantaneous, which is something that even VLC or Quicktime cannot accomplish even now. Overall, I set this as my default video player, and I don't know if it has hardware acceleration or not, but at times it does seem to do things (such as timeline scrolling) so smooth that it looks like it could be due to GPU support.

The only gripe I have with this is the UI buttons. They don't look like they're the proper rollover state. The UI looks fine when the player is not the active window, and the buttons fit with that state perfectly, but when it IS the active window, they look out of place. Here are two screenshots that show what I mean:

Inactive window with perfect looking UI:

http://localhostr.com/files/d15d8d/Picture+1.png

Active window with awkward and out of place looking buttons (sharpness):

http://localhostr.com/files/bd6fb1/Picture+2.png

I hope the devs are able to fix this in the next release. But other than that, this is the best video player on the Mac. Highly recommended.   
(Version rev10)

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Woot! This latest release fixed some very annoying bugs from the last release. Thank you. Works great now. =)  
(Version rev10)

PEN_SQ  I'm just reviewing to join the small chorus of "thank yous"! MPlayer was the light of my life back when I ran Linux, and it was sad to see it's state when I switched to Mac. It's great see active development on this port again. MPlayer is still my rock against a sea of shifting formats, retarded encoders, and damaged files.

Right now, I have mpeg and flv bound to MPlayer, mkv bound to VLC (for superior h.264 threading), and juggle common avi's to whichever isn't busy.

One other thing I'd like to toss in - mplayer's filtering abilities are only scratched on in the GUI, and can really dance around other players. Start with typing "-vf pp=ci/ac -spuaa 4" in the advanced options.  
(Version rev8)

MITCH_DE  For me much better than VLC and more slim app.  
(Version rev8)

RIQAY  I fully agree with Macnews on this. MPlayer OSX Extended is a fantastic piece of software and has become my default player for watching video on my MacBook. I switched from VLC, which seems to have suffered a bit in recent updates. This is definitely worth a download.  
(Version rev8)

MACNEWS  Wow. For the longest time, I'd been under the impression that the Mac community had been relegated to maintenance updates only to the old MPlayer client (still am, for that matter. Enter new dev...

I love the new player! The fluidity/speed of the interface is better than that of VLC. I haven't tested all supported formats yet, but one thing I noticed which is lacking (and which VLC supports) is dragging a DVD or VIDEO_TS directory to the playlist. Would be nice to see this added in a future update.

Looking forward to seeing more from this developer -- keep up the good work!  
(Version rev8)

MAGENTIS  MP Extended excels in it's codec support (it plays a few oddities that VLC will not) and it's subtitle/audio steam support (picks up streams without hassle and displays subtitles correctly). It also has enough options to be powerful without being superfluous.

The interface is good but not great. The button style looks somewhat dated and they are larger than I'd like. I think rectangle buttons would be more aesthetically pleasing and space efficient.

Overall, a fantastic job. My new default media player.   
(Version rev7)

LITTLEB  Really need an update also has the long delay after quitting the app been fix  
(Version rev7)

DOM21  Plays the formerly unplayable with ANY other player. Bravo!

(Intel Mac OSX 4.11)  
(Version rev7)

MBRAND  Mplayer has always been my favorite movie player because of two (rather simple) reasons:

1. lightweight

2. You can use the arrow keys to jump 15 or 30 seconds within the movie

The mplayer extended, well, extends by giving further features.

Thank you for this great builds. Keep up your work; it's definitely appreciated.  
(Version rev7)

AYUB  Great application. Cool interface. Not fully stable yet but is ok as long as we know. Menu navigation while playing music stops music sometimes.  
(Version rev7)

TRONDAH  MPlayer has always been the best media player out there, I can still remember the day that it brought DivX to Linux.

Adrian has done an amazing job to package up the player and bring us a sweet frontend as well. Bye bye to VLC! Thanks Adrian :)  
(Version rev7)

LITTLEB  1.this has problems that the original mplayer does not aka changing the aspect ratio dos'nt work for me

2. try changing aspect ratio on flash or mp4 slow mplayer down badly it like the os has froze   
(Version rev6)

LEOOFBORG  This is an AWESOME port of MPlayer. Previously I could ONLY do what could be done using terminal commands; in addition, the author has cleaned up some freetype/font config bugs that kept me from seeing styled subtitles the way they were meant to be seen.

Add to that EASY font color [for SRT] and scaling, even of styled fonts, and MKV chaptering [only available via Quicktime with Perian, *not* VLC], and MPE is a winner.

Yes, there are minor little bugs [like forcing aspect ratio broken], but at this point MPE's a winner.

My nephew and I [Macross Frontier fans!] thank the dev. Fantastic job!

Also: The source builds very easily. Thank you for putting the source up as well!  
(Version rev6)

ZWILLIAMS  Pretty good so far, with one exception. Sudden system crashes. I dug through the console and everything was okay. Nothing in the console had any direct connection to MPlayer Extended. The only notable item is that just before the system crash occurs the very last entry is always MPlayer Extended related. However the system crash only occurs when MPE is being paused (not every time but like once out of a dozen clicks or so.)

I've never had such a problem and have not had a crash in about 3 months of operation.

While I can't say for a certainty that it is indeed MPE, the application is my primary suspect. Not to detract from this application being a great (and very welcomed to my Applications Folder) project.

Cheers to the dev/maintainers.  
(Version rev5)

CALIGULA  Nice, but it needs some further work,

- It takes 60 seconds to load a movie-file (avi),

- in fullscreen mode I lose my mousepointer

- I get dropped frames on 640x480 mp4-files

- There is no floating controller in fullscreen mode

VLC makes other problems but overall it is more stable and is faster at opening and no dropped frames.

For now I stay with VLC.

Powerbook G4 1Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 10.4.11  
(Version rev5)

MRBOOGALOO  nice gui for the already great mplayer.

you get a slick interface with quick access to subtitle and audio options and easy to use, well sorted preferences.  
(Version rev5)