FYI, Mplayer is an open source media player application developed in Hungary, originally for Linux, but with the eventual goal of being able to play any video file format on any platform. This is challenging because so many codecs -- compression/decompression libraries -- are proprietary. The classic example is the Sorensen video codec for Apple's Quicktime -- Apple kept pointing the finger at Sorensen and claiming Sorensen wouldn't allow Apple to release the spec, but Sorensen maintained it was Apple that wouldn't allow Sorensen to release it.
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FYI, Mplayer is an open source media player application developed in Hungary, originally for Linux, but with the eventual goal of being able to play any video file format on any platform. This is challenging because so many codecs -- compression/decompression libraries -- are proprietary. The classic example is the Sorensen video codec for Apple's Quicktime -- Apple kept pointing the finger at Sorensen and claiming Sorensen wouldn't allow Apple to release the spec, but Sorensen maintained it was Apple that wouldn't allow Sorensen to release it.