MplayerXP is branch of the well-known mplayer that is based on a new, thread-based core. The main goal of this project is to achieve smoothness of video playback due monotonous CPU loading.
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swscaler functionality was restored. QT codecs
functionality was restored. Support for new codecs
was added. Compilation with gcc-4 was fixed. The
cygwin port and portability were improved.
SOFT-quit functionality was added. Framestepping
can be done with the -key argument.