Editing MPlayer (section)

==History==
Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, [[Hungary|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|Cinelerra-HV]]. After ''mpg12play v0.95pre5'', the code was merged with an [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]] player based on ''avifile''{{'}}s ''[[Win32]] [[Dynamic-link library|DLL]] loader'' to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000.<ref>[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/history.html History]</ref> 
Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programmers, in the beginning mostly from [[Hungary]], but later worldwide.

Alex Beregszászi has maintained MPlayer since 2003 when Gereöffy left MPlayer development to begin work on a second generation MPlayer. The '''MPlayer G2''' project was abandoned, and all the development effort was put on MPlayer 1.0.<ref>{{cite web |title=MPlayer - The Movie Player |url=http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html |access-date=2012-06-24}}</ref>

MPlayer was previously called "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux" by its developers but this was later shortened to "MPlayer - The Movie Player" after it became commonly used on other operating systems.