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This is completely normal, MPlayer has actually no GUI, so when you lunch it without any parameters it instantly quits. You can try to drag&drop video file on the mplayer.exe or invoke from the command line. If it works good enough for you Yo can add MPlayer in your 'Send To...' folder or associate it to your video files so that it opens them on double click. Because Mplayer has no GUI, you ave to use the Keyboard to navigate in the video (left and right arrows to move forwart/backward 10s) up/down => 1min pageUp/Dwn => 10min, 'Space' or 'p' to pause, 'f' to toggle fullscreen, 'j' to change subtitles, '#' to change audio track, 'ESC' or 'q' to quit, 'o' to cycle through more or less OSD, Read the Keyboard.txt for more details, you can change those keys with the mplayer/input.conf You can change general options in mplayer/config (open with notepad), you will want to try several video drivers to check which is the best for you. If you want to benchmark the video output, find a short video file on your drive and use the flowing command line (in command.com/command prompt): > mplayer shortTestFile.mp4 -vo XXX -nosound -benchmark With XXX = directx or direct3d or gl or sdl -vo stands for 'video output' At the end MPlayer will display performance details. Then once you found the one that works best put it in your config file (vo=XXX)

Stefan Sundin wrote a program named AltDrag that adds the ability to move/resize windows with the 'ALT' key (Linux style) under Windows. I started using his program which is really awesome but encountered some performance problems on my old computer. Because AltDrag Shows the content of the windows while dragging, it is annoying to use on slow hardware, I also prefer, and find visually less disturbing, to have just a rectangle when I move/resize the window. In addition I realized that the program had a lot more features that I needed and was incompatible with Windows NT4 and 2000. So I made a 'Micro' version that is very simple light and has few features (only the ones I need) for myself. Now it is time to share. This program needs at least Windows NT4 service pack 3 or later. This is because it relies on the 'LowLevel Keyboard/Mouse Proc' functions that is only supported by the NT based Windows and from NT4 sp3. GitHub page: https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltDrag MEGA Download for AltDrag Micro (no more updated): https://mega.nz/folder/CWoQQICK#iNDhz_M2ytBs0Q22cRdCvw MEGA Download for fully featured AltDrag: https://mega.nz/folder/mW5ExCCT#gI8DQICICk-y4FIjxaqtGg Original AltDrag from Stefan Sundin: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/ Original Instructions on how to use AltDrag: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/doc/usage.html

On Firefox 41+ you can disable the 'normal fonts' download only by using this combination in about:config: browser.display.use_document_fonts = 0 gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled = true https://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/21/firefox-41-mozilla-modifies-how-icon-fonts-are-handled-by-the-browser/ All icon fonts will still be downloaded this way. Tested on Serpent 52.9

I will add SDL support in next build. EDIT: DONE now, have a try with latest version in directory. I put a version of SDL.dll (I had good experience with it). Maybe you will prefer to try an other version that you know works for you, if you still have troubles. KernelEx is pretty good but I prefer vanilla programs. And in the future I plan 95 support and NT4 as well. I am happy because video output is almost twice faster on my computer with SDL... (using SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib)

Since quite a long time now (at least 2016), I am doing MPlayer builds using MinGW, targeting My old Win98SE machine. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html There are a few modifications that are made to the code and then it works just fine. I decided to share those builds now so that everyone can benefit from it. I mostly use WinXP now, and I still prefer to use my own builds for performance reasons and because I enabled automatic CPU detection which is quite helpful when installing on several computers. Here is the links with last stable release (1.4) and last build. MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/zbJiHIqK#garNgPLQaYp0Tu9bF--MsA GitHub: https://github.com/RamonUnch/MPlayer-Ringo-builds/releases In general I recommend the last build because it is usually stable. I will try to add every few months a new build (whenever I will need it). Note that the stable builds requires at least an i486 The latest build requires at least an i586 because of latest ffmpeg (I may try to fix that in the future). This player is very up to date and you will be able to decode any modern h264/265/opus streams etc. Be sure to check the configuration in mplayer/config (open with notepad or any other text editor) Whenever I start a new build I will always use the latest mplayer/ffmpeg config so that it all stays updated. In the future I hope to build GNU TLS for 9x so that you can read HTTPS streams. I will also need to add CD support someday... Tell me what you think about it. Keep in mind however that I have very little time to bug-fix and do all of this.