MPlayer v0.90rc1 is out

We've began preparations for the real release: this pre-release is the RC1. There are quite some features about it which make it the player supporting all modern codecs of the world today. No other player can boast with support for all of RealAudio/Video 9, Windows Media Audio/Video 9, Quicktime Sorenson 3, QDesign Music Audio. This is a peak improvement, and I'm not talking PR now. I'm watching TV with MPlayer even now. I could do so even on my EGA or Hercules display. Quite touching isn't it.

al3x has started a weekly "forum" for MPlayer: the MPlayer Weekly News. Its issues can be downloaded from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ homepage/mwn.

Let's quote the ChangeLog.

MPlayer v0.90rc1: "CodecCounter"

Docs:

new French translation
Irix section
various updates (both English & Hungarian)

Codecs:

New codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs)
Win32/Quicktime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!!
Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!!
MJPEG 2000 support (using Morgan & Imagepower VfW DLLs)
libavcodec: optimized HuffYUV en/decoder, with experimental YV12 support
libavcodec: mjpeg-b support (need more samples)
more xvidencopts
VorbisGain tag support, tremor (fast vorbis decoder lib) support
BIG libavcodec messups & codmetics & cleanups & API changes & fixes
dynamic plugin support for libmpcodecs (for future binary codec releases)

GUI:

general code cleanup, more robust gtk code
preferences: Screensaver, Autosync settings
cache=4 fixed (caused jerky/lagging/slow playback with gmplayer)

Others:

new config/cmdline parser code (optional)
OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector etc)
libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion
subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting
subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats
displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type .mov files, dump generic data
get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -indentify
-ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed
-vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering
-stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver too
More compiler warning fixes
Altivec (G4) support

Leech from

Hungary 1, HTTP -> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel....90rc1.tar.bz2
Hungary 1, FTP -> ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele....90rc1.tar.bz2
Hungary 2, HTTP -> http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel....90rc1.tar.bz2
Hungary 2, FTP -> ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele....90rc1.tar.bz2
USA, HTTP -> http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/rele....90rc1.tar.bz2
USA, FTP -> ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/relea....90rc1.tar.bz2
Switzerland, HTTP -> http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel....90rc1.tar.bz2