I've been and will continue to focus on making mplayer binaries configured primarily with internal codec support (ie. static ffmpeg). If you're looking for a skinny mplayer with external ffmpeg then please look for MU's or tempestuous's pets. If you're looking for a chubby mplayer with internal ffmpeg libs then you're at the right place.
I've been using mplayer regularly and I am very pleased with its performance. It happily plays all my avi, wmv, matroska & flv files without issues. There have been like a "gazillion" changes to mplayer internals since r29409 and honestly, I haven't upgraded from r29409 as it haven't disappointed me yet, not once.
Very recently (ie. 24 July 2010), a new development got me excited. A newly developed native VP8 decoder was added to ffmpeg and as I've expected, it was updated into mplayer in no time. I'm pleased to report that mplayer r31792 contains this VP8 decoder and have been tested to work with my vp8/webM samples.
The mplayer pets offered contains mplayer, mencoder, a dvd-skin & basic configs. They were built on puppy 4.12 and tested up-to puppy 4.31.
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mplayer was configured with:
--prefix=/usr --enable-gui --enable-runtime-cpudetection
Description :
- mplayer (30-June-2009) binary with gui support and dvd-skin.
- supports ladspa.
[download] mplayer svn-31792 (post 1.0rc3) pet package (8.6MB)
Description :
- mplayer (24-July-2010) binary with gui support and dvd-skin.
- includes opencore-AMR & ffmpeg-VP8
- supports ladspa.
Rgds