MPlayer Features
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).
It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4,
RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo,
FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim,
and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies..
Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output
drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib,
DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their
drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and
some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too!
Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.
MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice
big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls.
European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean
fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM,
SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub).
DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as
well.
License
MPlayer is available under the
GNU General Public License v2.
Supported Input Formats
- (S)VCD (Super Video CD)
- CDRwin's .bin image file
- DVD, including encrypted DVD
- MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB)
- RIFF AVI file format
- ASF/WMV/WMA format
- QT/MOV/MP4 format
- RealAudio/RealVideo format
- Ogg/OGM files
- Matroska
- NUT
- NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video)
- VIVO format
- FLI format
- NuppelVideo format
- yuv4mpeg format
- FILM (.cpk) format
- RoQ format
- PVA format
- streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP
- TV grabbing
Supported Video and Audio Codecs
most important video codecs:
- MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
- MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4),
DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
- Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
- Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
- RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
- RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs
- DV video
- 3ivx
- Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
- Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
- VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
- MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
- FLI/FLC
- HuffYUV
- various old simple RLE-like formats
most important audio codecs:
- MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
- AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
- AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
- WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
- WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
- RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
- RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
- QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC
- Ogg Vorbis audio
- VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
- alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats
The codec status page has the complete
list and is updated daily.
Supported Video Output Devices
general:
- x11: X11 with SHM extension
- xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
- xvmc: Xvideo Motion Compensation
- vidix: VIDeo Interface for *niX
- xvidix: VIDIX in an X11 window
- cvidix: VIDIX on the console
- winvidix: VIDIX under Windows
- dga: X11 DGA extension (both v1.0 and v2.0)
- gl: OpenGL renderer
- gl2: alternative OpenGL renderer (with multiple textures)
- fbdev: framebuffer output
- svga: SVGAlib output (supports EGA displays)
- sdl: SDL >= v1.1.7 driver
- ggi: GGI graphics output
- aalib: text mode rendering
- caca: text mode rendering in color
- vesa: display through the VESA BIOS (also needed for Radeon TV-out)
- directfb: DirectFB support
- directx: native Windows DirectX output driver
- quartz: native Mac OS X output driver
card specific:
- mga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 hardware YUV overlay via the
mga_vid device
- xmga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
(Xv emulation on X 3.3.x!)
- syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer
- 3dfx: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support (/dev/3dfx)
- tdfxfb: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx framebuffer
- mpegpes: support for Siemens DVB hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder
boards (or MPEG-PES file output)
- dxr2: support for DXR2 hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
- dxr3: support for DXR3/Hollywood+ hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
- zr: support for Zoran360[56]7 based hardware MJPEG cards
special:
- png: PNG output
- jpeg: JPEG output
- gif89a: animated GIF output
- tga: Targa output
- yuv4mpeg: yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
- pgm: PGM output (for testing purposes)
- md5: MD5sum output (for debugging)
- null: null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
- bl: Blinkenlights output
See the
video card section
of the documentation for more details.
Supported Audio Output Devices
- OSS (Open Sound System) - factory standard under UNIX
- SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) - wrapper library with support for various systems
- ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) 0.5/0.9/1.0 for Linux
- SUN audio driver for BSD and Solaris8/9 users
- SGI audio for IRIX
- Mac OS X audio
- Windows audio
- NAS (Network Audio System)
- ESD (ESound Daemon)
- ARTS (KDE Sound System)
- JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
See the
sound card section
of the documentation for more details.
Speed
Most of time-critical parts are optimized for
Intel/AMD (MMX/MMX2/SSE/SSE2/3DNow!/3DNowEx),
PowerPC G4 (Altivec), SPARC (VIS), ARM PDAs
and the Sony Playstation 2.
You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers (XFree86 4.x.x does this
automatically), see the MTRR section of
the video card documentation.
GUI
MPlayer comes with a GUI that is not build by default. The
GUI section of the
documentation explains how to enable it. Several external
MPlayer frontends
provide alternative GUIs.
MPlayer comes with extensive documentation that explains in detail how
to solve or work around most common problems, how to best set up MPlayer
on your system and how to achieve optimal performance.
The most common questions are collected in the
FAQ. If you are looking for
a specific thing you can try to
search the documentation
to find a solution.
Information about MPlayer internals and other development related
aspects can be found in the tech section
of the documentation.
The online documentation is generated nightly from the CVS version of
MPlayer. If you are using a release version of MPlayer you may notice
some changes and thus prefer to use the documentation that comes with
your installation. Translations to several languages are available.
The master version is English, but the translations are generally
quite up-to-date unless marked otherwise.
The manual page for MPlayer and MEncoder describes all available command
line options and how to control MPlayer with the keyboard. It is also
regenerated nightly for the CVS version of MPlayer.
We continuously strive to improve and extend the documentation. If you
find omissions, errors or inaccuracies, please tell us on the
MPlayer-DOCS
mailing list. If the documentation is not (yet) available in your language
and you are interested in translating it, please read the
translation HOWTO and join the
MPlayer-DOCS
mailing list. We always welcome new translations.
Bug Reports
First try the development (CVS) version, maybe your bug is already known
and fixed, but the new version hasn't been released yet.
Please read all the docs in the package, most common problems
and possible workarounds are described somewhere.
We will NOT answer questions which are already answered in the
documentation!
If you couldn't solve the problem, then send us a quality bug report:
read the bug reporting
section for details!
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