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For a long time, many people have been seeking practical multimedia players under DOS. Existing pure-DOS players like QV, MPXPLAY, etc., support some multimedia formats such as AVI, MPG, but they do not support currently common formats like RM/RMVB, WMV/ASF, etc., and do not support many decodings, making it impossible to play previous multimedia formats (such as RMVB format animated cartoons and movies) or decodings under pure DOS, causing many regrets.

Now all this has changed. With the most powerful and mature command-line player--MPlayer can run on the DOS platform through HX, now DOS can finally fully support all common multimedia formats including RMVB/WMV/DVD! MPlayer supports not only audio formats like MP3, OGG, RA, WMA, but also various multimedia formats, including AVI, OGM, MPG, MKV, MOV (QuickTime), RM/RMVB (Real Media), WMV/ASF (Windows Media), etc., and can even play CD/VCD and DVD movies! Its playback effect is also quite good, especially relatively smooth on new computers, and the audio and video quality can be comparable to the WIN players like those in YinYing FengBao. Of course, if you want to hear sound, you need to load the sound card driver first.

It is also relatively convenient to use. Through my organization, you can directly play the specified multimedia file under DOS in the form of PLAY "file name" (for example: PLAY TEST.RMVB), and you can also use wildcards or specify multiple files (for example: PLAY *.AVI *.RMVB, you can press the Enter key at any time during playback to switch to the next file, and press the ESC key to exit), and you can also load the play list and so on through the -playlist parameter. For DVD movies, you can use a form like "play dvd://1 -dvd-device d:\video_ts" (assuming the CD-ROM is drive D) to play. It runs best in the MS-DOS 7.10 environment that supports long file names. The download is provided below, welcome everyone to test and use, and share and exchange usage experiences. If there are any problems, you are also welcome to raise them.

http://help.cn-dos.net/soft/mplayer.7z.zip

The above file is in the 7z format with the highest compression rate, and can be extracted with tools like 7-Zip, WinRAR, etc.

Instructions: Please run in the form of PLAY "file name" (as mentioned above, where "file name" can be a wildcard or multiple files). It is best to use under pure DOS, but it can also be used in the DOS window of WIN, and you don't need to load too many programs before running. If you want to play in full-screen mode instead of the original size, you can specify the -fs parameter (for example: play -fs *.rmvb). By the way, there is a relatively small multimedia file (test.mpg) included for testing.

Support, first take a sofa!!

Coming down right away. Let's try it and see how it works.

Is it as large as 12M? For DOS, it's a big one.

Originally posted by willsion at 2007-3-21 12:51 PM:
Is it as big as 12M?
For DOS, it's quite a large one.

You need to know that it contains decoders for various multimedia formats (AVI/OGM/MKV/RMVB/WMV/VCD/DVD, etc.), so such a size should be considered normal. Mainly because the decoder files are a bit larger.

Are there any problems with using it?

The graphics card requirement is quite high. 800*600*32. My DOS machine can't handle it... I need to change the machine...

;--- hxguihlp will read the entries in [display] and try to
;--- set an appropriate video mode with ChangeDisplaySettings().
;--- mode=xxx will select a VESA mode directly. Else hxguihlp will try
;--- to find a matching mode by using VESA video mode enumeration (which
;--- may not work for all VESA BIOSes).
;--- with entries xmax + ymax one can restrict the video resolution.

[display]
xres=800
yres=600
bpp=32
;mode=0x114
;xmax=1024
;ymax=768

Wow, HX can support MPlayer now, thumbs up, orz

It can't be used! The owner, please make it clear. Why can't it run on my computer? When I run "play *.rmv", after it shows analyzing the video format, etc., it exits with "exing......"

Originally posted by free2 at 2007-3-22 05:33 PM:
The graphics card requirement is quite high, 800*600*32.
My DOS machine can't handle it... Need to change the machine...

;--- hxguihlp will read the entries in and try to
;--- set an appropriate video mode with ChangeDisp...

If the graphics card doesn't support 800*600*32, using 800*600*16 is also acceptable. Just change bpp=32 to bpp=16 in the hxguihlp.ini file. But probably can't go lower than that.

To make it easier for users with not too new graphics cards to use, I have changed the default value to 800*600*16 and made some other changes, then re - uploaded. You can download it again.

Originally posted by A Hai at 2007-3-22 11:50 PM:
It doesn't work! The owner, please be more specific. Why can't it run on my computer? When I run play *.rmv, after it displays analyzing the video format, etc., it exits with "exing"......

Is it running under pure DOS? Can you please tell me the machine configuration? For example, does the graphics card support 800*600*32? If the graphics card doesn't meet the requirements, it won't run. If it doesn't support 800*600*32, you can try reducing it to 800*600*16, as mentioned by the person above.

Let's try to see how it works.

New gadget, download and try it, thanks.