Best Open Source Video Player! MPlayer

Watching a movie with your sweetheart is the best thing you can do after a tough day at work. But how frustrating is that moment when you lay comfortably on the sofa and your favorite video player that has so long served you every time goes crazy and crashes right at the beginning of the movie? This is the time when you should probably start looking for an alternative.

MPlayer is probably the software you’re looking for, since developers have specifically designed it to be compatible with the most popular video and audio formats currently in use. If we are to trust the developers, the application comes with support for 192 video and 85 audiocodecs.

But MPlayer is not an ordinary multimedia player. Nooo, it is much more than that. And you’ll see this as soon as you double-click the installer. The application comprises optimized builds for every CPU type, so that it could work at full speed, without any glitch no matter if you’re using an AMD Athlon XP, Intel Pentium III or Intel Pentium 4. Don’t worry if you’re not a geek, the installer will do the whole hardware detection job, which means you will definitely receive the right build.

Installing the software however takes a while, no matter how fast your computer is. During our test, we had to wait more than 1 minute until all files have been copied on the hard-disk, plus some extra time until MPlayer finished “optimizing the executable file”.

The interface of the player is clean and simple, which is an important thing when talking about a powerful tool that should be able to open most multimedia formats. All functions are displayed in the bottom menu, while additional options are available via the right click straight in the main window of the app.

The settings menu is well organized, so every time you’ll look for a certain option, you will easily find it in the appropriate subcategory.

As for the player itself, it worked great during our tests and it really managed to open all formats we had on our computers. Plus, it’s impressively light on computer resources, which of course is a plus, especially for older machines.

The bottom line is as simple as it gets: try it. It’s a powerful tool, it is surprisingly efficient and, above all, it’s free. So why not giving it a shot?

Here are some key features of "MPlayer (Full Package)":

· The award-winning OpenSource Media Player "MPlayer" available for Windows now!
· Self-contained "all-in-one" installer (made with NSIS)
· More than 192 Video- und 85 Audiocodecs supported natively!
· Latest optimized MPlayer builds by Celtic Druid
· Improved version of MPUI front-end (compiled with Delphi7 Professional)
· Binary Codec Package for Windows (included in Full-Package only)
· Full multi-language Unicode support (more than 20 languages to choose)
· Optimized builds for: Athlon-XP, Athlon-64, Core 2, Pentium-4, Pentium-4 Precott, Pemtium-M
· Generic build that runs on all CPUs (Runtime Detection)


Ok Enough Explanations Let's Just Download It!


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Mplayer (Mediafire) Click Here
MPlayer (Softpedia) Click Here