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MPlayer - The Movie Player

It runs on many systems, including Linux, BSDs, MacOS X and Windows.
Supports all of the known and mainstream formats, including (open) standards,
VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, DivX, Real, Quicktime and Microsoft Media files, even online streamable contents.
Of course subtitles are not a problem for it. Just throw a source media to it, and watch
on your favourite video output!

Get it here: www.mplayerhq.hu
Discuss: #mplayer @ irc.freenode.net

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