The MPlayer G2 project was abandoned, and all the development effort was put on MPlayer 1.0. Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programmers, in the beginning mostly from Hungary, but later worldwide.Īlex Beregszászi has maintained MPlayer since 2003 when Gereöffy left MPlayer development to begin work on a second generation MPlayer. The first version was titled mpg12play v0.1 and was hacked together in half an hour using libmpeg3 from After mpg12play v0.95pre5, the code was merged with an AVI player based on avifile 's Win32 DLL loader to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000. The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999. Versions for the Wii Homebrew Channel and Amazon Kindle have also been developed.ĭevelopment of MPlayer began in 2000. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application. English, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish