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Tonight I’ve got some good news for those of you who enjoys watching videos on your AmigaOS 4 setup! It turns out that a new version of MPlayer has been uploaded to OS4Depot! This program can play most standard video formats straight out of the box, and almost all others with additional external codecs. MPlayer for AmigaOS 4 is based on MPlayer 1.5 (w/ FFmpeg 6.0), merging code from LiveForIt-MPlayer, MickJT-MPlayer and the Andrea Palmatè’s MPlayer ports, with additional changes and improvements.

Here is an overview of the changes since the last release:

MPlayer 1.5 RC2 (MPlayer 1.5) – MickJT, Marek, Javier and Samo79 (26.01.2024)
* Based on MPlayer 1.5 SVN-r38440 (FFmpeg 6.0)
From now on, the AmigaOS4 release will follow the official versioning scheme!
* Compiled with GCC 11.3 + LTO (currently compiled with optimisation -O2)
* Added support for append, now dragging more than one file will append them
* Added support for AmiUpdate (yes again!)
* Added amiga video output (a fresh new P96 video output written by Jörg Strohmayer!)
* Added video’s path in all availible video outputs (show file path in MPlayer window)
* Added more audio/video formats in ASL requester and reorder them alphabetically
* Added gadgets for iconification and fullscreen in all availible video outputs
* Added “Iconify” option menu to iconify MPlayer from menu
* Added “Open subtitles” option menu to load the subtitles from MPlayer
* Added “Unload subtitles” option menu to unload the subtitles from MPlayer
* Added “Subtitles size” option menu to increase/decrease the size of the subtitles
* Added “Properties” option menu to show informations about the video playing
* Added “MPlayer-GUI” option menu to open MPlayer-GUI from MPlayer
* Added catalogs for French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish (Credits: zzd10h, Maijestro, Marek, Samo79 and Javier)
* Fixed support for AppWindow, now drag and drop of files over AmiDock really works
* Fixed external windows problems when opened on fullscreen
* Fixed crash on AltiVec version if launched on non AltiVec CPUs
* Fixed crash on quit in the GL video outputs
* PIP: Added support for menu
* Disabled some more debug outputs that were printing to shell
* MPlayer can now be controlled with the Exchanger commodity (Show, Hide and Quit)
* Separation of video outputs for SM502 G4 vo_sdl_sm502.c (Useful in QEMU emulation)
* Made screen/window titles standard in all availible video outputs
* Made drag and drop standard in all availible video outputs
* Improved RegisterApplication support
* New banner and iconsets (thx Mason!)
* A lot of bugfixes and code cleanup

Here is the download link:

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/play/mplayer.lha

That was all for now. Thank you again for visiting my blog. 🙂 Hope to see you in another post here on the Old School Game Blog!