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MPlayer and MPlayer2 don't provide supported binaries for Windows, at least they never used to. All MPlayer used to have was a very outdated and insecure Windows build available or automated untested nightly. Today, MPlayer has 1 Windows build, 1.1 from June, but I'm unsure if they are going to maintain it, so I'd rather wait and see. Mplayer2 has no supported Windows builds and recommends you build it yourself. And there are dozens of other MPlayer forks as well, all seem equally unsupported and unupdated. We used to do MPlayer Portable but ditched it due to security, stability and support reasons. MPlayer has always been more of a Linux app than anything else.
SMPlayer takes specific MPlayer builds and packages and supports them with an improved frontend (MPlayer on Windows didn't even used to have a GUI... does it now?). So we switched to that from MPlayer.
MPC-HC I've never looked at, myself. I think there was a dev test of it in the forums somewhere.
Personally, I stick with VLC as it's always reliable on Windows.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I prefer vlc too, but I check for new apps too.
From I see from the screenshots at MPlayer website, there is a gui for windows.
MPlayer GUI on Windows XP
Actually john there is a binary for windows that is built weekly for mplayer 2 its just unsupported
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
I know, but it's completely unsupported and they recommend building from source, which means it's a non-starter for us.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!