I still keep MPlayer for now though because it is simply more reliable, and I can't be arsed to go dig up all my old DVDs and reencode them again right now. Depending on your source files and how you encoded your video, this may or may not be an issue, and I really do love a lot of stuff about it. MPlayer OSX Extended uses the MPlayer open source project for decoding and integrates MPlayer's default key. It also supports instant playback of MKV files and advanced styled subtitles in the ASS format. However, I have found a number of my MKVs where unlike MPlayer it does not respect the proper scaling ratio for the video, resulting in everything being somewhat distorted. Thanks to multithreading and 64bit architecture, MPlayer OSX Extended is one of the fastest choices on OSX to play back HD H264 videos. I'd absolutely recommend checking it out and following it as well.
Movist has an even better interface, very nice feature support, etc.
#TURN OFF SUBTITLES IN MPLAYER OSX EXTENDED SOFTWARE#
Of course, if you want output to a QuickTime based device or piece of software having Perian as well may serve you well. It could still stand to improve in some ways, but overall it's excellent and is what I use for this purpose now, after starting with QuickTime and tons of random assorted codecs for AVIs way back, then moving to VLC (back when MPlayer didn't have a decent OS X version) for general title support as more stuff moved to MKV, then using Perian.
It doesn't force subtitles to be formatted some particular way (like Perian does, the devs insist that their way is the only good way and that no configuration for people with worse eye sight or whatever should be allowed), it has no loading time for MKVs (a fundamental flaw of the currently available QuickTime), and so on. MPlayer OSX Extended, as linked above, is probably the current best player on the Mac, with excellent wide format support, sane defaults (you don't have to tweak stuff to just get going), nicely rendered soft subs (quite important with subtitled MKVs in particular), lots of extended options if you wish to use them available directly and pleasantly in the preferences as expected of a Mac app, and of course all the tiny command line tweaks can be entered manually if you wish. When I change to a different subtitle the picture often freezes and doesn't refresh until I try to seek or pause/play to get it to refresh.
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