History Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999. The first version was titled mpg12play v0.1 and was hacked together in half an hour using libmpeg3 from Cinelerra-HV. After mpg12play v0.95pre5, the code was merged with an AVI player based on avifiles Win32 DLL loader to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.History Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programmers, in the beginning mostly from Hungary, but later worldwide.
History Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999. The first version was titled mpg12play v0.1 and was hacked together in half an hour ,using libmpeg3 from Cinelerra-HV. After mpg12play v0.95pre5, the code was merged with an AVI player based on avifiles Win32 DLL loader to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.History Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programmers, in the beginning mostly from Hungary, but later worldwide.