History
  • Revision 13 (1. February 2010)
    • Major changes:
      • Redesigned preferences window
      • MPlayer binary bundles
      • Interactive audio and video equalizers
      • New inspector window
      • Redesigned player window (by Nick Saia)
      • Support for multiple player instances
    • Smaller changes:
      • Custom screenshot save location
      • OSD level and subtitle scale now apply immediately
      • Better custom aspect ratio support
      • Audio equalizer presets
      • Per-file settings in the inspector including audio and subtitle delay
      • Added and fixed framestep function
      • Added loop option
      • Faster adding of files to the playlist
      • Added recent files menu
      • Fix old Apple Remote on Snow Leopard and add support for new one
      • Added support for selecting vob subtitles
      • Clicking on timestamps will cycle the displayed time mode
      • Improved support for VIDEO_TS folders
      • Improved detection of initial streams
  • Fixes:
    • Many playlist fixes
    • Fix garbled MPEG1/2 playback
    • Fix video view related crashed
    • The player window is hidden if it's on the same screen that is used for fullscreen
    • Removed in this release:
    • Video output selection (internal is the only option now)
    • ASS subtitles are always enabled
    • Skip loopfilter and fast options have been merged
    • The MPlayer config file in ~/.mplayer will now longer be loaded
  • Revision 12 (18. October 2009)
    • This update requires at least OSX 10.5 (Leopard)!
    • Highlights
      • Compatible with OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
      • GUI and MPlayer are now 64bit compatible (~20-50% faster)
      • Chapter support no longer limited to MKV
      • Refine the behavior of the Apple Remote's combined skip/seek buttons
    • Bugfixes
      • Fix two Snow Leopard issues
      • Fix additional parameters being ignored in some cases (especially -vf-add/-af-add)
      • Fix loading of subtitles with an apostrophe in their path
      • Fix player window from appearing in alaska fishing trips fullscreen when using on top while playing
      • Don't set the -monitoraspect MPlayer option (use Additional Parameters if needed)
      • Fix fullscreen controls disappearing when being dragged
    • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 18. October 2009 (r29777)
  • Revision 11 (27. June 2009)
    • New icon by mar2o
    • Fullscreen improvements:
      • Option to black out other screens while in fullscreen
      • Don't hide player window to allow using it on a second screen
      • Check that fullscreen controls are never placed off-screen
      • Don't hide menu bar except when going fullscreen on main screen
    • Interface improvements
      • Enable volume changing and seeking with the scroll wheel
      • Allow player window to be dragged by clicking on the video
      • Additional option for on-top while playing only
      • Allow overriding pre-defined file types (drop-down in open dialog, hold command while dragging file on window)
      • Add encoding selection to open subtitle dialog
      • Update cache slider range to 256MB and allow higher values to be entered in the text box
    • Switch to new MPlayer build style with shared libraries (saves 17MB or 36%)
    • Add log rotation to avoid MPlayerOSX.log getting unreasonably huge
    • Add BS2B audio filter (to simulate speakers through headphones for a more natural listening experience)
    • Bugfixes:
      • Fixed a crash when going to fullscreen
      • Fix occasional volume "leak" at the start of a movie
      • Fix a problem with preferences window not closing
      • On-top now doesn't place the window above menus
      • Fix a memory leak in the video output (patch by mpx-trax AT the-color-black.net)
      • Fix MPlayer being marked as unresponsive and spindump on Leopard eating CPU time
      • Video no longer stops when a menu is opened for a longer time
    • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 22. June 2009 (r29378)
  • Revision 10 (18. April 2009)
    • Much improved scrubbing bar
    • Fix font selection
    • Fix video size options in preferences
    • Add NSV and FLV to file types
    • Fix skipping buttons on player window and on fullscreen controls
    • Fix crash when opening a file after another one was already opened
    • Fix a memory leak in MPlayer when used with the internal video output
    • Fix playback with more than 8 cores
    • Some performance and size optimiziations
    • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 18. April 2009 (r29185)
  • Revision 9 (08. April 2009)
    • Support for multithreaded decoding (FFmpeg-MT - still experimental)
    • Custom aspect ratio from preferences selectable in aspect ratio menu
    • Option to disable animated transitions of the interface
    • Add missing file types (flac, m2ts)
    • Support opening URLs from other applications (like a Browser)
    • Subtitles can now be dragged onto the player or opened in the finder to load them while a movie is playing
    • Save fullscreen controls position relative to screen
    • Support opening multiple files at once in the Finder or by dragging onto the icon
    • Updated deinterlace options
    • Option to skip loop filters (H264)
    • Add option to update to prereleases through Sparkle
    • Various bug fixes
    • Dropped support for PPC without altivec
    • New MPlayer and MPlayer-MT build from 07. April 2009 (r29150)
  • Revision 8 (09. January 2009)
    • Fullscreen controls
    • Automatic updates with Sparkle
    • Font and font style selection with Fontconfig
    • Automatic detection of subtitle encoding for supported languages
    • Improved and expanded font, subtitles and osd options
    • Options for AC3 and DTS pass-through
    • Internal video output support for multiple gui instances
    • Better Fontconfig cache warning
    • Fix going back to fullscreen on Tiger
    • Fix some memory related issues
    • Other small fixes
    • Includes MPlayer build r28284 from 9. January 2009
  • Revision 7 (20. October 2008)
    • Fixed internal video output on Tiger
    • Fixed internal video output with too little shared memory
    • Fixed aspect ratio preferences
    • Improved fullscreen transition for internal video output
    • Support for the Apple Remote
    • Various other small bug fixes
    • Updated mplayer binary to r27807 from 20. Oct 2008
  • Revision 6 (22. August 2008)
    • Threaded integrated video display
    • (gui no longer blocks video)
    • MKV chapter selection
    • Fullscreen device selection
    • Easier application of preferences changes
    • Size and color selection for subtitles
    • Subtitle encoding selection fixed
    • Various other small bug fixes
  • Revision 5 (13. August 2008)
    • Stream selection
    • Don't minimize and reopen video when switching movies
    • Add items to playlist without stopping playback
    • Remember if playlist is opened
    • Don't spill all log messages to system.log
    • Improved volume control
    • Expose more actions in menus with keyboard
    • Fixed Taking Screenhots
    • Switched to MPlayer icon from tango project
  • Revision 4 (1. August 2008)
    • Recent SVN mplayer build (PPC only with Altivec)
    • Fontconfig and OSX fix
  • Revision 3 (28. July 2008)
    • Fontconfig and font encoding fix
    • Screenshot filter loading fix
    • Support for older mplayer binaries
    • Included RC2 mplayer binary
  • Revision 2 (26. July 2008)
    • Redesigned preferences dialog
    • Additoinal options
    • Audio / Video equalizers
    • Take screenshots
  • Revision 1 (6. July 2008)
    • ASS Option
    • Fast libavcodec option