What is Mplayer2?
MPlayer2 is an open-source, cross-platform media player capable of playing most video and audio formats. It is a fork of the original MPlayer codebase with an emphasis on bug fixes, security updates, and new features.
Some key features of MPlayer2 include:
- Supports a wide range of media codecs and containers including MPEG, AVI, Ogg Vorbis, Matroska, WebM, and more
- Hardware accelerated video output using VA-API and VDPAU APIs
- Advanced subtitle support with styling and multiple subtitle tracks
- Extensive audio and video filtering
- On-screen user interface with playback controls, seek bar, volume control etc.
- Video playback optimizations for multi-core processors
- DVD and Blu-Ray playback with menu support
- YouTube playback support
- Extensibility through Lua scripts
MPlayer2 is designed to serve as a drop-in replacement for the original MPlayer on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It retains source code compatibility along with an emphasis on keeping pace with the latest codecs and container formats. The project is actively developed on GitHub by a community of developers.