
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.