About this tag
MPlayer is a cross-platform media player that appears in discussions about video playback on Windows. Forum threads mention MPlayer alongside other players like VLC, Media Player Classic, and KMPlayer when users seek recommendations for lightweight or feature-rich media software. One thread describes using a batch script to associate video file types (such as .avi, .mkv, .flv, .wmv) with MPlayer via the ftype and assoc commands, though the user encountered issues with Windows Explorer ignoring these associations. The tag covers MPlayer's role in Windows media playback and file association troubleshooting.
  1. Safal Piya

    Windows 8.1 Top 5 Video Play Which You Should Know

    Hey guys it's me Safal Piya again. And in this video I'm gonna show you Top 5 Video Play Which You Should Know: So, Let's get started: 1) Media Player Classic (Windows, Free) Media Player Classic started out as a project to preserve the simplicity and lightweight playback of the old Windows...
    • Safal Piya
    • Thread
    • codec free software lightweight media player mplayer open source video content video playback video players windows
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Multimedia
  2. mafinokc

    Windows 8 Seeking recommendations for best media players running under Windows 8

    Newly registered for these forums. I have a ~4-year-old Toshiba laptop. I have suffered with Windows Vista ever since. I recently considered converting to Ubuntu, but in view of the amount of extra work that entailed, instead for $40 I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro. Over the last 10 years or so that...
    • mafinokc
    • Thread
    • cyberlink daum potplayer desktop tools free software itunes kmplayer media center media player mplayer multimedia real player recommendations smplayer toshiba umplayer user experience vlc winamp windows 8
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Software
  3. F

    Windows 7 Scripting: assoc and ftype

    Hello, I've made script to associate video files with MPlayer (not WMP). It's simple .bat file, here's part of it: ftype MPlayer.Video=\"%~dp0mplayer.exe\" \"%%1\" \"%%*\" 1>nul assoc .avi=MPlayer.Video 1>nul assoc .mkv=MPlayer.Video 1>nul assoc .flv=MPlayer.Video 1>nul assoc...
    • freex
    • Thread
    • assoc batch file command line configuration file association file explorer file extensions file types ftype media player mplayer scripting troubleshooting user interface video files windows 10 windows 11 windows shell
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support