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This project has unfortunately been crippled by toxic devs who value their opinions more than actual technical arguments.

Report bugs and you may end up getting mocked instead of thanked.

When I reported that on my hardware I need -vo vaapi to get full hd playback without frame drops and stuttering, I was told to get better hardware. They wouldn't even entertain the thought that maybe -vo gpu (their default) needs more work. All I asked them to is to document in the man page that if you get stuttering video with -vo gpu you might want to try -vo vaapi.

This was a few years ago and apparently they did work on -vo gpu in the mean time, but they will never get rid of the stench that episode left.

Since then -vo vaapi has been deliberately crippled. It can not display subtitles and gives a deprecation warning when you try to use it.

It's too bad that mplayer has fallen into disrepair. Didn't they also suffer from toxic dev infighting? I seem to remember even a fork of ffmpeg because the other devs needed to get away from one particularly toxic dev.