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Better than VLC? MplayerX

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Mekgek

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Jun 15, 2007
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I was looking for a better alternative to VLC. Came across MplayerX. It seems much faster, and looks pretty pretty good!

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/mplayerx/id421131143?mt=12


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You forced me to try it an it does looks pretty good. I guess it's pretty much the same as MPlayer OSX Extended with different GUI but it seems smoother. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Cromulent said:
Why not just use Mplayer itself? Its fast, constantly updated and easy to compile. All of these programs just wrap Mplayer in a GUI and repackage it.
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This is prettier and easier to install :p

I'm so glad I found something else as a backup to QuickTime + Perian. VLC was ugly, slow, and just not intuitive in general.
 
I just installed MPlayerX....nice video player.

There's one small issue with mkv files though. The icons of mkv files only show a white blank page (so it actually looks like a text file in your folder). With the VLC media player you had at least a VLC icon so you could see immediately that it's a video file.

Is there a way to change that?
 
I have MplayerX and VLC. I always end up returning to VLC because it's more stable, I tend to get weird crashes on MplayerX.

EDIT: Darn it. Resurrected thread.
 
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tdale said:
Is it still true that non Apple supported file types, such as avi and mkv can't use hardware acceleration?
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Apple has supported the .avi wrapper for nearly 20 years. You appear to be conflating two separate issues. Both .avi and .mkv are wrapper formats, not content formats. These wrappers may contain audio and video tracks in a number of different formats.
 
MisterMe said:
Apple has supported the .avi wrapper for nearly 20 years. You appear to be conflating two separate issues. Both .avi and .mkv are wrapper formats, not content formats. These wrappers may contain audio and video tracks in a number of different formats.
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Yes, I know all that, poor wording on my part. So, for Apple non supported encoding, is that still non hardware acceleration? Why many files these days are supposedly Apple supported file types, MPEG2 with the required bitrate etc, or H.264, some files are poorly encoded so fall outside Apples settings, and thus are non supported.
 
steve23094 said:
I have MplayerX and VLC. I always end up returning to VLC because it's more stable, I tend to get weird crashes on MplayerX.
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I've had quite a number of crashes with the VLC player recenty while trying to play certain mkv files. That's why I installed MplayerX. MplayerX seems to be able to play all mkv files. So far I haven't had any crashes.

By the way...they haven't updated the VLC player since July 2014.
 
I use these for my "non QuickTime / iTunes" media files:

• Plex
• MPlayerX
• VLC

Plex
Best HTPC solution. Supports all formats I throw at it, regarding HD Movies, TV shows, etc. (MKV, TS, AVI, WMV, and AC3, DTS 5.1 audio, etc.). Needs a Plex Server (Mac mini in my case) and Plex Home Theater.app (on another Mac mini with HDMI in my case) connected to TV / Home theater system.

MPlayerX
The easiest to use single app to watch movies, and also supports most (all?) movie-formats I throw at it. Also the fact that you download it for free in the MAS makes me like this app.
However, High-quality audio tracks (24 bits, 96Khz and higher) seem to have issues.

VLC
I use this app for the High-quality audio tracks (24 bits, 96Khz and higher) which other apps cannot play (well).

In short, I use all three.
 
fhall1 said:
From what I saw on that website, the ONLY thing VOX plays is audio files (no video).
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Yes, I'm aware of that. But it's a very nice audio player.
I'm using the VOX Player for audio files and the MplayerX for video files.
 
I've tested VLC 3.0 beta and it looks good so far. VLC seems to be a bit behind for some reason. Mplayerx, the dev stated via Twitter that a Yosemite version will come as soon as he's able.
 
VOX has a nice interface, HQAudio is supported (FLAC codec, 24 bits 96 KHz and higher), nice settings possible (force multichannel on stereo audio, crossfade, etc.) and I also unlocked (bought) the radios.

But, VOX has issues with DTS audio. EDIT: It seems only with WAV-audio.

A very nice add-on. But, VLC, MplayerX and Plex are all still needed.
 
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I'd also recommend movist, which is great for almost all types of video files.
 
SlCKB0Y said:
You just answered your own question.

Edit: just noticed this thread is 4 years old.
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Nice necro thread.

At the time this post was made mplayer was significantly better than the GUI versions that other people had made since the original mplayer was updated faster than the GUI versions could cope with.

VLC is still the superior video and audio player on just about every platform though.
 
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