Introduction:
Here are builds of MPlayer and MEncoder for Windows and macOS that I had requests for.
My main focus with these builds is on MEncoder stability, since that is what we use for the media server transcoding, so each release is thoroughly tested to transcode and mux from and to many formats.
Specifically, the stability of outputting H.264 via x264 and MPEG-2 with AC-3 and DTS variants inside MPEG-PS, and WMV with WMA inside ASF, as well as handling different DVD and subtitle inputs.
I test each build for several different things before release, and since Universal Media Server also uses these builds there are many testers who report any bugs which I then fix.
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Older Downloads:
SB66 (macOS)
SB64
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Changelog:
2021-02-14 – SB67 for macOS
2020-07-28 – SB66 for macOS
2016-05-07 – SB65
- Updated x264 to r2695, which improves speed and quality
2015-10-28 – SB64
- Updated x264 to r2638
- Updated fontconfig to 2.11.92
2015-01-22 – SB63
- Synchronised with r37363, which fixed audio with DVD sources
- Updated FFmpeg to f845ae0
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2015-01-03 – SB62
- Synchronised with r37352
- Minimized logspam
- Updated FFmpeg to 11201bb
- Updated fontconfig to 2.11.91
- Updated jpeg to 9a
- Updated libcdio to 0.93
- Updated libogg to 1.3.2
- Updated libpng to 1.6.15
- Updated libvorbis to 1.3.4
- Updated lzo to 2.08
- Updated MPFR to 3.1.2
- Updated mpg123 to 1.21.0
- Updated xvid to 1.3.3
- Updated yasm to 1.3.0
2014-12-30 – SB61
- Synchronised with r37344, which:
- Fixes support for Opus
- Fixes support for DVDs
- Fixes color and italic support for MicroDVD subtitles
- Improves MPEG-2 output
- Fixes x264 hardware acceleration
- Fixes bugs
- Updated FFmpeg to ac08c5c, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Fixes bugs
- Updated x264 to r2525, which:
- Fixes VBR support
- Fixes VFR support
- Increases speed
2014-10-23 – SB60
- Synchronised with r37302, which:
- Fixed Blu-ray Disc seeking
- Improved support for H.265
- Updated FFmpeg to 596636a, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Fixes bugs
- Updated x264 to r2479, which:
- Fixes bugs
- Improves speed
2014-09-03 – SB59
- Synchronised with r37259, which:
- Fixes decoding of PGS subtitles
- Updated FFmpeg to 596636a, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs
- Fixes bugs
- Updated x264 to r2453, which:
- Fixes 3D compatibility on some devices
- Fixes bugs
- Better optimizations for some CPUs
2014-06-17 – SB58
- Fixed DTS-ES to AC-3 transcoding
- Synchronised with r37225, which:
- Improves H.265 support
- Improves buffer allocation
- Improves Opus support
- Makes seeking more accurate
- Updated FFmpeg to b152152, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs and fixes bugs
- Updated x264 to a5831aa (r2431), which:
2014-05-08 – SB57
- Added FAAC to the UMS build
- Synchronised with r37191, which:
- Updated FFmpeg to a0d7f9e, which:
- Improves support for many containers and codecs and fixes bugs
- Updated x264 to d6b4e63 (r2409), which:
- Improves speed
- Fixes bugs
2014-03-19 – SB56
- Synchronised with r37018, which:
- Improves DVD support
- Adds Blu-ray playlist -identify printout
- Fixes encoding finishing too soon
- Improves stability
- Updated FFmpeg to aa86ccc, which:
- Improves support for the following video codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
- Improves support for the following audio codecs: DTS
- Improves support for the following containers: Matroska, MOV, OGG
- Adds x265 encoding support
- Improves audio sync
- MPEG-4 adheres more strictly to spec limits
2014-02-05 – SB55
- Synchronised with r36788, which:
- Updated FFmpeg to acd7505, which:
- Improves support for the following video codecs: VP9, H.265, VC-1, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VP8
- Improves support for the following audio codecs: AC-3
- Improves support for the following containers: Matroska, AVI, MPEG-TS
- Fixes memory leaks
- Added support for encoding 7.1 channels with FDK-AAC
- Improves detection of 60FPS
- Updated x264 to r2389, which:
- Updated fontconfig to 2.10.95, which:
- Uses version 4 of the cache
- Fixes bugs (memory leaks, crashes, etc.)
2014-01-07 – SB54
- Synchronised with r36571, which:
- Adds Google VP9 support
- Improves support for some DVDs
- Improves AAC support
- Speed improvements
- Fixes memory leaks
- Updated FFmpeg to r59647 (13f3092), which:
- Improves AV sync
- Improves AC-3 support
- Improves DTS support
- Improves VP9 support
- Improves H.264 support
- Improves H.265 support
- Improves AviSynth support
- Improves Matroska support
- Fixes dts/pts bugs when outputting MPEG-TS
- Adds support for reading and setting stereoscopic metadata for MPEG-2, H.264 and H.265 streams
- Updated Opus to 1.1, which:
- Significantly improves encoding quality
- Speed improvements of up to 40%
2013-11-05 – SB53
- Synchronised with r36500, which:
- Improves blu-ray support
- Improves VC-1 support
- Fixes memory leaks
- Adds rtsp support
- Fixes multithreaded decoding
- Improves ASS/SSA subtitle support
- Adds support for HEVC (H.265)
- Adds 4k support
- Increased speed
- Fixes a crash when trying to play a DVD from different region than currently set in the DVD drive.
- Improves support for some DVDs
- Updated FFmpeg to r57910 (04047b6), which:
- Fixed memory leaks
- Optimized AC-3 decoding
- Improves support for 60FPS videos
- Improved AVI support
- Silences meaningless errors
- Improved DTS support
- Supports seeking to non-keyframes in Matroska files
- Supports HEVC
- Improves seeking accuracy
- Much more
- Updated x264 to r2377 (1ca7bb9), which:
- Improves quality in fade-heavy clips
- Increases encoding speed in some cases by over 39%
- Improves bitrate settings logic
- Improves stability
- Updated mpg123 to 1.16.0, which:
- Improves WAV output stability
- Increases speed
- Fixes errors in win32 output
- Updated libpng to 1.6.6
- Updated libogg to 1.3.1
- Updated libopus to 1.0.3, which:
- Updates to the new surround API
- Fixes bugs
- Updated zlib to 1.2.8, which:
2013-03-28 – SB52
- Synchronised with r36063, which
- Fixes memory leaks
- Improves sync with Real videos
- Fixes a crash
- MEncoder has access to private codec options
2013-03-26 – SB51
- Synchronised with r36055, which
- Improves audio sync
- Supports filenames with uncommon characters
- Improves DVD support
- Updated x264 to r2274 (c832fe9), which:
- Improves speed significantly
- Improves compression
- Updated mpg123 to 1.15.1
- Re-added lame
- Re-added libfaac
- Removed dlfcn, RTMPDump and xanim
2013-02-15 – SB50
- Synchronised with r35910, which
- Silences meaningless errors
- Added support for XAnim codecs
- Added support for dynamic loading (dlfcn-win32-r19)
- Added RTMPDump Streaming Media library (r481)
- Updated libpng to 1.5.14
2013-01-21 – SB49
- Synchronised with r35801
- Updated FFmpeg to r49065 (64b7e7d), which
- Improves Matroska (MKV) support
- Improves threading
- Updated fontconfig to 2.10.91, which
- Fixes memory leaks
- Makes it threadsafe
- Updated jpeg to 9
- Added mpg123 1.14.4
2013-01-08 – SB48
- Synchronised with r35715, which:
- Updated FFmpeg to r48584 (92e79e5), which
- Improved MPEG-PS encoding
- Made error codes more meaningful
- Fixed WMA encoding
2013-01-03 – SB47
- Synchronised with r35712, which:
- Disabled direct rendering for non-ref frames only again
- Updated FFmpeg to r48391 (e9fd51b), which
- Fixes a bug which detected transport streams as finished when they weren’t
2012-12-21 – SB46
- Synchronised with r35701, which:
- Makes ASS/SSA subtitle rendering up to 3.5x faster
- Improves sync for files with negative timestamps
- Updated FFmpeg to r48065 (cfa5300), which
- Improves AC-3 audio buffering
- Fixes memory leaks
- Updated libass to r775 (7e45532)
- Updated GMP to 5.1.0
- Updated opus to 1.0.2
2012-12-05 – SB45
- Synchronised with r35596, which:
- Fixed alpha for ASS subtitles
- Fixed audio stuttering/repeating bug
- Updated FFmpeg to r47416 (d913883)
- Updated fontconfig to 2.10.2, which:
- Improves permissions handling on Windows
- Removes incorrectly categorised fonts
- Added enca 1.13
2012-12-01 – SB44
- Fixed subtitle bug on certain CPUs
- Improved audio/video sync in some cases
- Synchronised with r35518, which:
- Fixes memory leaks
- Improves support for avi files
- Updated FFmpeg to r47297 (bc16031), which:
- Supports more rare avi files
2012-11-22 – SB43
- Synchronised with r35438, which:
- Improves WAV support
- Detects more CPU types
- Faster ASS/SSA subtitle rendering (up to 220%)
- Fixes crashes
- Fixes a lot of memory leaks
- Streaming improvements
- Faster performance on 64-bit systems
- Updated FFmpeg to r46973 (8e69579), which:
- Improves support for demuxing DTS-HD
- Improves opus support
- Improves GCC compatibility when compiled with MinGW
- Improves URL-handling
- Fixes dozens of memory leaks
- Improves audio sync for some AVI files using MP3 audio
- Fixes parsing of old lossless H.264 profile
- Improves FPS detection
- Improved sync for interlaced video
- Corrected blu-ray bitrate calculation
- Supports WAV metadata
- Automatically sets VBV buffer size for MPEG-1, 2 and 4 when none is specified
- Allows mid-stream channel layout change for flac audio
- Supports 24-bit flac encoding
- Improves audio sync when seeking
- Improves support for some CPU-optimisations
- Fixed a lot of bugs with the implementation of h264
- Updated x264 to r2230
2012-10-30 – SB42
- Rolled back to r35226 until the bugs caused by FFmpeg’s planar audio changes are fixed
- Rolled back FFmpeg to r44967 (82db8ee) (pre-planar)
- Updated libass to 0.10.1
- Added SDL 1.2.15
- Changed from shared to static pthreads
- Stripped executables for smaller filesize
- Disabled vidix support (don’t think anyone is using it? Let me know if you want it)
2012-10-16 – SB41
- Synchronised with r35248, which fixes libvorbis detection
- Patched FFmpeg to fix DTS downsampling
- Patched FFmpeg to fix audio sync in some scenarios
2012-10-08 – SB40
- Synchronised with r35234, which:
- Makes ASS/SSA load faster
- Fixes redirection for proxy URLs
- Adds support for planar audio formats
- Updated FFmpeg to r45123 (537ef8b)
- Updated GCC to 4.6.3
- Updated GMP to 5.0.5
- Updated MPFR to 3.1.1
- Updated libpng to 1.5.13
- Updated libbluray to 0.2.3
- Synchronised internal libdvdcss to r255
2012-09-26 – SB39
- Synchronised with r35213
- Updated FFmpeg to r44736 (6bcbe76)
- Updated GCC to 4.7.2
- Added libopus 1.0.1
2012-09-19 – SB38
- Synchronised with r35203, which:
- Enables more CPU optimisations
- Improves audio sync
- Tried to fix very occasional freezing issue
- Updated FFmpeg to r44583 (8d07742), which:
- Improves audio/video sync
- Updated GCC to 4.7.0
- Updated x264 to r2216
2012-08-31 – SB37
- Synchronised with r35130, which:
- Improves SubRip handling
- Supports more formats
- Fixed streaming delay in some situations
- Updated FFmpeg to r44030 (438b86fed47d766b5af30cd1c379d15aa4cf4e57), which:
- Improves audio/video sync
- Better support for double-PAL and double-NTSC framerates
- Fixed memory leaks/corruption
- Improved subtitle timing when seeking
- Fixes AC3 bug
- Improved support for bitmap subtitles
- Updated x264 to r2208
- Updated fontconfig to 2.10.1, which:
- Fixes a font type
- Respects user’s previous configurations more
- Fixes memory leaks
- Supports older versions of Windows
- Fixes cache aging
2012-07-18 – SB36
- Synchronised with r35034, which:
- Supports a lot more file formats and colour-spaces
- Updated FFmpeg to r42595 (56ae5926f739bd26a5aa4add98604b7cd3c2d6ca), which:
- Improves audio/video sync, especially with PAL (25FPS) videos
- Updated libpng to 1.5.12
2012-06-25 – SB35
- Synchronised with r35007, which:
- Supports more colours in ASS/SSA subtitles
- Updated FFmpeg to r41905 (5fd3e6965e58aee59e9bf26e38e2a3925535ab21)
- Updated pthreads-w32 to 2.9.1
- Updated FreeType to 2.4.10
- Updated libpng to 1.5.11
- Updated fontconfig to 2.9.92 which:
- Fixes memory leaks
- Starts faster
- Improves fonts
- Improves caching
2012-05-30 – SB34
- Fixed font cache creation problems
- Updated x264 to r2200, which increases multithreading speed by up to 100%
2012-05-24 – SB33
- Synchronised with r34966, which:
- Fixes and improves x264 encoding
- Fixes hardware acceleration
- Updated FFmpeg to r40987 (d0ad91c258821708ce21b4ae53018922ef1f5614)
- Fixed font caching
- Updated libass to de409235f4a3, which:
- Fixes letter spacing
- Fixes control character filtering
- Fixes border generation
- Updated libvorbis to 1.3.3
- Updated libpthread to 2.9.0 from 2.8.0
- Updated fontconfig to 2.9.0 from 2.8.0
- Updated libiconv to 1.14 from 1.13.1
- Updated zlib to 1.2.7 from 1.2.6
- Updated gettext to 1.18.1.1 from 1.17
- Updated autoconf
- Added libpng 1.5.10
2012-05-05 – SB32
- Synchronised with r34883, which:
- Makes streaming more stable.
- Improves the appearance of VOBSUB (DVD) subtitles when using spuaa 4
- Support 7.1 AAC
- Improves DTS decoding
- Updated FFmpeg to r40248 (4f6a1c974ff69afa5b40ced0c9e39c90da73235a)
- Updated x264 to r2197 (Click here for changelog)
- Added libcdio 0.83
2012-04-17 – SB31
- Synchronised with r34866, which:
- Increases the maximum cores used from 8 to 16, meaning faster performance on newer CPUs.
- Fixes the bug where the end of a video was cut off when using multithreading
- Added dsnative (GPU) support
- Updated automake to 1.11.5 from 1.11.1
- Updated libbluray to r860 from r850
2012-04-08 – SB30
- Synchronised with r34849, which:
- Improves ASS/SSA line-ending translation.
- Improves buffering
- Updated FFmpeg to r39627 (58c25724b7f921fdf3657fcb011b3bb3b7b353d4)
2012-04-02 – SB29
- Synchronised with r34836
- Updated FFmpeg to r39476 (49891784ce70456305f19847d4188f07bbc1b6e1)
- Patched FFmpeg to fix AC3 audio sync
- Updated expat to 2.1.0 (Click here for changelog)
2012-03-15 – SB28
- Synchronised with r34814
- Updated FFmpeg to 9e2ee46206a5a4db91ee4d26737b515797e6b08e
- Updated x264 to r2184 from r2183 (Click here for changelog)
2012-03-11 – SB27
2012-02-29 – SB26
- Synchronised with r34780
- Updated FFmpeg to 34210e8df1458da556998ad6bbcabc78f4d15ffb
2012-02-16 – SB25
- Synchronised with r34728
- Updated FFmpeg to 60991ad6ae61e131085891c37e8e517b5014ce21
- Fixed the order of Hebrew subtitles (RTL instead of LTR)
2012-02-14 – SB24
- Synchronised with r34720
- Updated FFmpeg to 9719528e05eb076bd689e51bfc14a52d38e1d309
- Updated x264 to r2164 from r2146 (Click here for changelog)
2012-01-29 – SB23
2012-01-22 – SB22
2012-01-16 – SB21
- Synchronised with r34577
- Updated libbluray to r850 from r848
2012-01-14 – SB20
- Synchronised with r34561
- Updated x264 to r2120 from r2106 (Click here for changelog)
- Updated libbluray to r848 from r822
2011-12-05 – SB19
2011-11-20 – SB18
2011-11-08 – SB17
2011-10-24 – SB16
2011-09-28 – SB15
2011-09-27 – SB14
2011-09-12 – SB13
2011-09-05 – SB12
2011-08-19 – SB11
- Synchronised with r34002
- Added support for jpeg
2011-08-15 – SB10
- Synchronised with r33986
- Rolled back FreeType to 2.4.5 from 2.4.6 since it caused a bug with coloured font outlines
2011-08-11 – SB9
2011-08-06 – SB8
- Synchronised with r33953
- Added support for more compression types (bzip, lzo)
- Added support for VIDIX
- Updated x264 to r2044 from r2037 (Click here for changelog)
2011-08-01
- Added URL to SVN repository
2011-07-28 – SB7
- Synchronised with r33936
- Fixed playback stuttering bug
2011-07-26 – SB6
2011-07-18 – SB5
- Synchronised with r33883
- Improved CPU compatibility
- Added support for theora, flac, fribidi and faad2
2011-07-12 – SB4
2011-07-08 – SB3
- Synchronised with r33848
- Support for more codecs and fontconfig
2011-07-07
- Made it one download instead of two and included a dependency. The executables weren’t changed at all, just the package. Thanks to mazey for QA.
2011-07-06 – SB2
- Synchronised with r33823 which adds support for the -vobsub parameter (big thanks to Reimar Döffinger)
- Support for larger files
- Support for DirectShow video codecs
2011-07-02 – SB1
- Initial release based on r33787
