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MPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things l
by JohnTHaller 13y ago
MPlayer works in the Linux world, but the app itself has no stable releases outside of that so it doesn't have traction beyond Linux. Unless you count things like SMPlayer (Windows-specific front-end and MPlayer backend) and the like. MPC-HC is pretty popular in the Windows world. But neither of them come close to approaching VLC's userbase. We make SMPlayer, MPC-HC and VLC all available in portable form at PortableApps.com alongside each other and VLC's downloads blow the other two away.
- Osmium 13y agoThere are some MPlayer-powered releases for OS X too, e.g. http://mplayerx.org http://mplayerx.org There are others too, though I'm not sure what the differences are.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoThere are a bunch of them on Windows, too. It's hard to keep track of them all.
- simcop2387 13y agosmplayer isn't windows only. It does work on linux fairly well too. That being said, I have grown to like VLC more lately.
- JohnTHaller 13y agoQuite right, my mistake. The point still stands, though, as Windows (the dominant OS by a huge margin) has no stable releases of the base MPlayer app, so there's no one version people can grab. Whereas VLC runs quite well on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- simcop2387 13y agoYep, that's the same reason I recommend VLC. It's definitely improved since the days of 2005 or so when I used it to stream dvds over a lan to a machine that didn't have a DVD drive. I wonder if anyone has screenshots of it over the years...