MplayerXP 0.6.0 review

MplayerXP is a branch of the well known mplayer (http://mplayerhq.hu) which is based on the new (thread based) core. The new core

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MplayerXP is a branch of the well known mplayer (http://mplayerhq.hu) which is based on the new (thread based) core.

The new core provides better CPU utilization and excellently improves performance of video decoding. Main goal of this project is to get monotonous CPU loading during movie playback.

This project is a media player for *nix systems. It was designed for Linux, but works on other unices like: FreeBSD, QNX.

MplayerXP project was designed for x86 architecture but was ported on DecAlpha, SUN, PowerPC.

What's New in This Release:
Many improvements and fixes were made in DVD subtitles and OSD.
Audio track switching on the fly was added.
MPlayerXP is now ready for DVD2=H264+DTS.
A new unified MRL syntax of all protocols is used instead of multiple keys specifications.
The "oss://" and "vcdnav://" MRLs were added.
A problem of PTS discontinuities with (dvdnav,dvdread):// readers was fixed.
A big cleanup of the code was done.
The "--program-suffix" parameter was added to the configure script.
multiple demuxer fixes were made.
The project's own muxer/demuxer, MPXPAV64, was designed.