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mplayer2

mplayer2 is an advanced general-purpose video player. A fork of the original MPlayer project, it contains significant further development and supports a number of features not available in other players. Improvements over MPlayer

  • Better pause handling
  • In MPlayer executing any commands forced the player to unpause. This is no longer the case; in MPlayer2 you can change settings, seek, or run other commands while paused.
  • Better Matroska support
  • Easy to use multithreading support
  • Much better support for VDPAU functionality on NVIDIA cards
  • Support for precise seeks
  • It's now possible to seek to any frame in the video; seeks are no longer necessarily limited to keyframes.
  • Support for gettext-based translations MPV is an updated fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer.