MPlayer OSX Extended is a utility that comes as an alternative to using system's default player - QuickTime - for watching your favorite movies from your Mac computer. This program is the macOS version of the well-known MPlayer tool which was originally available only for the Windows platform.
The tool is great for users who switched from Windows to macOS and wish to play their movies with a utility that's similar to their previous media player.
MPlayer OSX Extended enables you to play movies with subtitles, gives you access to a wide range of video and audio playback settings, and brings you a built-in help guide. Furthermore, you can create playlists. However, you cannot export them to your local directories. Another disadvantage is the fact that you can't use MPlayer OSX Extended to watch SWF movies.
Still, MPlayer OSX Extended supports more file formats than Mac's default media player, is very intuitive, and offers you many useful advantages. And since you don't have to pay a dime to use it on your computer, it's definitely worth giving it a try.
v15.0 [Jun 18, 2014]
- Add option to open files in either new or frontmost window, optionally reusing idle windows when possible.
- Updated help (big thanks to Bilal Hussain!).
- Add menu items to play previous/next episode (Bilal Hussain).
- Add menu item to reset the volume.
- Improved support for multichannel audio.
- Updated file type and preferences icons (thanks to Bilal Hussain and Yummygum).
- The App is now code-signed for Mountain Lion and Mavericks.
- Add proxy icon to window title (Bilal Hussain)
- Inspector title is now a label - double click to edit.
- Improved inspector layout (Johan Lundström).
- Better skip icons in player window (Johan Lundström).
- Use 00:00:00 for undefined timestamps instead of xx:xx:xx (Johan Lundström).
- Only show the application name in the title bar if no file is open (Dako).
- Add fit to screen window sizing option to menu as well (Dako).
- Auto-detect number of output channels of current audio device, add option to override.
- Add support for more default MPlayer keybindings.
- Try to play files even if extension is missing or unknown.
- Cleaned up file types and type descriptions (Bilal Hussain).
- Use BT.709 color matrix for HD video (Stefano Pigozzi).
- Make ontop option a toggle and split off "only while playing", allowing to make a menu command to toggle ontop.
- Application size down 38% by dropping PPC support, removing unnecessary libraries and only needing one MPlayer binary now that FFmpeg-MT has been merged.
- Fix menu bar not disappearing in Mavericks in some cases.
- Work around exception when opening the open panel.
- Fix blank open dialog and fullscreen scrubbing bar flicker.
- Fix and improve sleep prevention (allow sleep when playing only audio or while paused).
- Keep window on screen when resizing using the menu commands.
- Fix video size not matching actual display size of video.
- Fix blacking windows not having the same window level as the main window.
- Fix MPlayer and OS X channel layouts not matching for multichannel audio.
- Fix volume being reset after changing audio tracks.
- Fix playing VIDEO_TS folders with a dash in their path.
- Fix audio stream cycling using the '#' key.
- Fix some preferences items not prompting for playback restart.
- Fix subtitle scale set in inspector being applied incorrectly (Johan Lundström).
- FFmpeg-MT has been merged into main FFmpeg! No longer separate binaries for the two.
- Set up build system from scratch and removed lots of libraries. Now using system libraries where possible, removed features should be covered by ffmpeg.
- Includes support for 10bit h264.
- Fix for AC3 and DTS passthrough.
