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Should I remove Mplayer?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
1% remove it99% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Very good
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How common is it?
Global Rank #6,522
United States Rank #3,041
Reach 0.0681%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 30.43 days
897.62 days >
Average installed length: 471.63 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
0.6.9 100.00%

Mplayer 0.6.9

What is Mplayer?

MPlayer is a free and open source media player. MPlayer supports a wide variety of media formats and can also save all streamed content to a file. It also supports a variety of different output drivers for displaying video, including VDPAU, the X video extension, OpenGL, DirectX, Direct3D, Quartz Compositor, VESA, Framebuffer, SDL and rarer ones such as ASCII art and Blinkenlights. It is a command line application which has different optional GUI front-ends for each of its supported operating systems. Video formats include Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, Bink. Audio formats include AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, FLAC, Intel Music Coder, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Musepack, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis and WMA.

About  (from MPlayer Team)

MPlayer has a fully configurable, command-driven control layer which allows you to control MPlayer using keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote control (with LIRC). See the -input option for ways to customize it. mencoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (see ...  Read more
Overview
  • Automatically starts with Windows

Program detailsProgram details

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\mplayer
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Mplayer\uninstall.exe
Estimated size: 33.65 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Mplayer 0.6.9

Program executable:smplayer_portable.exe
Path:C:\Program Files\mplayer\smplayer_portable.exe
MD5:cf96407ed42d5c10ccb655fa7fe9bf21
Additional files:
  • MPlayer.exe - MPlayer - The Movie Player for the rest of us
  • uninstall.exe
  • AutoUpdate.exe
  • cygwin1.dll (by Red Hat) - Cygwin (Cygwin® POSIX Emulation DLL)
  • gmplayer.exe - MPlayer - The Movie Player (MPlayer - Movie Player)
  • libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
  • mingwm10.dll
  • MPlayer Association Wizard.exe
  • MPUI.exe (by KeyJ) - MPUI: a Windows frontend for MPlayer (MPlayer for Windows)
  • psvince.dll (by Vincenzo Giordano) - psvince (psvince.dll for InnoSetup Extensions)
  • QtCore4.dll (by Nokia and/or its subsidiary(-ies)) - Qt4 (C++ application development framework.)
  • QtGui4.dll (by Nokia and/or its subsidiary(-ies))
  • QtNetwork4.dll
  • QtXml4.dll
  • QxtCore.dll
  • ResetSMPlayer.exe
  • SetFileAssoc.exe
  • TaskillMplayer.exe (by Microsoft) - TaskillForm
  • unins000.exe - Setup/Uninstall

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

3 Scheduled Tasks
  • gmplayer.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FE104258-B086-4E71-9499-079499092250}' (runs on registration).
  • smplayer_portable.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{EA24FC78-57BC-4900-B7C5-0ED683246126}' (runs on registration).
  • uninstall.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{A2C0DF34-A050-41AB-A928-6B2E8F9CBB52}' (runs on registration).
Startup File (All Users Run)
  • AutoUpdate.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'MPlayerForWindows_UpdateReminder' which loads as "C:\Program Files\MPlayer for Windows\AutoUpdate.exe" /L=1033 /TASK.

Program resource utilizationResource utilization averages

smplayer_portable.exe
Memory:25.43 MB
21.09 MB average
Total CPU:0.4548646593%
0.031193% average
Kernel CPU:0.04429798%
0.016088% average
User CPU:0.41056668%
0.015104% average
gmplayer.exe
Memory:6.73 MB
Total CPU:0.1395407702%
Kernel CPU:0.07455408%
User CPU:0.06498669%
Switches/sec:38

How do I remove Mplayer?

You can uninstall Mplayer from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Mplayer 0.6.9, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Mplayer.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 72%
Win Vista 0%
  
HOW IT STARTS
Automatically starts? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
  
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 1%
Keep it 99%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 75.04%
Windows Vista 12.59%
Windows 10 7.53%
Windows XP 4.84%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 63.20%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 11.07%
Windows 7 Professional 6.13%
Windows 7 Ultimate 4.79%
Microsoft Windows XP 4.79%
Windows 10 Home 2.77%

Distribution by countryGeography

96.61% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 96.61%
  United Kingdom 0.70%
  Canada 0.65%
  Mexico 0.17%
  Singapore 0.13%
  France 0.13%
  Korea 0.13%
  Germany 0.13%
  Saudi Arabia 0.13%
  Brazil 0.09%
  UA 0.09%
  Qatar 0.09%
  India 0.09%
  Philippines 0.09%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 35.34%
Dell 30.45%
Toshiba 13.34%
Acer 10.90%
ASUS 4.48%
Lenovo 1.93%
GIGABYTE 1.93%
Samsung 0.81%
Intel 0.81%
Common models
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 5.92%
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... 4.53%
HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... 3.83%
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.66%
Dell Inspiron N5110 2.61%
HP G60 Notebook PC 2.61%

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