.\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy .\" This man page was/is done by Gabucino, Diego Biurrun, Jonas Jermann .\" .\" Run this to get a html version of the man page: .\" cat mplayer.1 | sed s/SS\ 20/SS\ 4/ | groff -man -Thtml - > manpage.html .\" Run this to get a text version of the man page: .\" groff -m man -Tascii mplayer.1 | col -bx > manpage.txt .\" . .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Macro definitions .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .\" default indentation is 7, don't change! .nr IN 7 .\" define indentation for suboptions .nr SS 20 .\" add new suboption .de IPs .IP "\\$1" \n(SS .. .\" begin of first level suboptions, end with .RE .de RSs .RS \n(IN+3 .. .\" begin of 2nd level suboptions .de RSss .PD 0 .RS \n(SS+3 .. .\" end of 2nd level suboptions .de REss .RE .PD 1 .. . .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Title .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .TH MPlayer 1 "2003-01-11" . .SH NAME mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux .br mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Synopsis .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH SYNOPSIS .na .nh .B mplayer .RI [options]\ [ \ file\ | \ URL\ | \ playlist\ | \ -\ ] .br .B mplayer 'in +\n[.k]u [global options] .I file1 [specific options] [file2] [specific options] .br .in .B mplayer 'in +\n[.k]u [global options] .RI { "group of files and options" } [group specific options] .br .in .B mplayer 'in +\n[.k]u .RI [ dvd | vcd | cdda | cddb | tv ] ://title [options] .br .in .B mplayer 'in +\n[.k]u .RI [ mms[t] | http | http_proxy | rt[s]p ] :// [user:passwd@]\fIURL\fP[:port] [options] .br .in .B mencoder [options] .RI [ \ file\ | \ URL\ | \ -\ ] [\-o\ file] .br .B gmplayer [options] [\-skin\ skin] .ad .hy .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Description .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH DESCRIPTION .B mplayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices and non\-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/\:VOB, AVI, ASF/\:WMA/\:WMV, RM, QT/\:MOV/\:MP4, OGG/\:OGM, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ 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, too (without using the avifile library). .PP 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 also use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11), some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI) and some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/\:Hollywood+. Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. .PP 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 10 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub and our own: MPsub) and DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VobSub and Closed Captions). .PP .B mencoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (see above) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It encodes to DivX4, XviD, one of the libavcodec codecs and PCM/\:MP3/\:VBRMP3 audio in 1, 2 or 3\ passes. Furthermore it has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, noise, rgb/\:yuv conversion) and more. .PP .B gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface. It has the same options as MPlayer. .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Options .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH "GENERAL NOTES" .B Also see the HTML documentation! .PP Every 'flag' option has a 'noflag' counterpart, e.g.\& the opposite of the \-fs option is \-nofs. .PP You can put all of the options in a configuration file which will be read every time mplayer is run. The system-wide configuration file 'mplayer.conf' is in your configuration directory (e.g.\& /etc/\:mplayer or /usr/\:local/\:etc/\:mplayer), the user specific one is '~/\:.mplayer/\:config'. User specific options override system\-wide options and options given on the command line override either. The syntax of the configuration files is 'option=', everything after a \'#' is considered a comment. Options that work without values can be enabled by setting them to 'yes' or \'1' and disabled by setting them to 'no' or '0'. Even suboptions can be specified in this way. .I EXAMPLE: .br # Use Matrox driver by default. .br vo=xmga .br # I love practicing handstands while watching videos. .br flip=yes .br # Decode/\:encode multiple files from png, start with -mf on .br mf= type=png:fps=25 You can also write file-specific configuration files. If you wish to have a config file for a file called 'movie.avi', create a file named 'movie.avi.conf' with the file-specific options in it and put it in ~/.mplayer or in the same directory as the file. .SH "PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)" .TP .B \-, \-use-stdin Read data from stdin. The \-idx option does not work in conjunction with this. .TP .B \-autoq (use with \-vop pp) Dynamically changes the level of postprocessing depending on available spare CPU time. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you can use some big number. You have to use \-vop pp without parameters in order to use this. .TP .B \-autosync Gradually adjusts the A/\:V sync based on audio delay measurements. Specifying \-autosync\ 0, the default, will cause frame timing to be based entirely on audio delay measurements. Specifying \-autosync\ 1 will do the same, but will subtly change the A/\:V correction algorithm used. An uneven video frame rate in a movie which plays fine with \-nosound can often be helped by setting this to an integer value greater than 1. The higher the value, the closer the timing will be to -nosound. Try \-autosync\ 30 to smooth out problems with sound drivers which do not implement a perfect audio delay measurement. With this value, if large A/\:V sync offsets occur, they will only take about 1 or 2\ seconds to settle out. This delay in reaction time to sudden A/\:V offsets should be the only side-effect of turning this option on, for all sound drivers. .TP .B \-benchmark Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end. Use in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only the video codec. .TP .B \-edl Enables edit decision list (EDL) actions during playback. Video will be skipped over and audio will be muted and unmuted according to the entries in the given file. See DOCS/documentation.html#edl for details on how to use this. .TP .B \-edlout Creates a new file and writes edit decision list (EDL) records to that file. During playback, when the user hits 'i', an entry to skip over the last two seconds of playback will be written to the file. This provides a starting point from which the user can fine-tune EDL entries later. See DOCS/documentation.html#edl for details. .TP .B \-fixed-vo (BETA CODE!) Enforces a fixed video system for multiple files (one (un)initialisation for all files). Therefore only one window will be opened for all files. Currently the following drivers are fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga and gl2. .TP .B \-framedrop (also see \-hardframedrop) Skips displaying some frames to maintain A/\:V sync on slow systems. Decoding of B frames is also skipped and video filters are not used. .TP .B \-h, \-help, \-\-help Show short summary of options. .TP .B \-hardframedrop More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image distortion! .TP .B \-identify Show file parameters in easy parsable format. The wrapper script TOOLS/midentify suppresses the other mplayer output and (hopefully) shellescapes the filenames. .TP .B \-input This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system. Paths are relative to ~/\:.mplayer/. .I NOTE: .br Autorepeat is currently only supported by joysticks. .br Available commands are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs conf= Read alternative input.conf. If given without pathname, ~/\:.mplayer is assumed. .IPs ar\-delay Delay in msec before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable). .IPs ar\-rate How many key presses per second when we autorepeat. .IPs keylist Prints all keys that can be bound. .IPs cmdlist Prints all commands that can be bound. .IPs js\-dev Specifies the joystick device to use (default is /dev/\:input/\:js0). .IPs file Read commands from the given file. Mostly useful with a fifo. .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-lircconf Specifies a configuration file for LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control, see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/\:.lircrc. .TP .B \-loop Loops movie playback times. 0 means forever. .TP .B \-menu (BETA CODE) Turn on OSD menu support. .TP .B \-menu-root (BETA CODE) Specify the main menu. .TP .B \-menu-cfg (BETA CODE) Use an alternative menu.conf. .TP .B \-nojoystick Turns off joystick support. Default is on, if compiled in. .TP .B \-nolirc Turns off LIRC support. .TP .B \-nortc \ \ Turns off usage of the Linux RTC (real-time clock \- /dev/\:rtc) as timing mechanism. .TP .B \-playlist Play files according to a playlist (1 file per row or Winamp or ASX format). .TP .B \-quiet \ \ Display less output and status messages. .TP .B \-really\-quiet \ \ Display even less output and status messages. .TP .B \-sdp Specifies that the input file is a SDP ('Session Description Protocol') file that describes an RTP session (see http://www.live.com/mplayer/). .TP .B \-shuffle \ \ Play files in random order. .TP .B \-skin (BETA CODE) Load skin from the given directory (WITHOUT path name). .I EXAMPLE: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs "\-skin fittyfene" tries Skin/fittyfene. It first checks /usr/local/share/mplayer/ and afterwards ~/.mplayer/. .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-slave \ \ This option switches on slave mode. This is intended for use of MPlayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin. The section .B SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL explains the syntax. .TP .B \-softsleep Uses high quality software timers. As precise as the RTC without requiring special privileges. Comes at the price of higher CPU consumption. .TP .B \-speed <0.01\-100> Set playback speed rate. .TP .B \-sstep Specifies seconds between displayed frames. Useful for slideshows. .SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS" .TP .B \-aid (also see \-alang option) Select audio channel [MPEG: 0\-31 AVI/\:OGM: 1\-99 ASF/\:RM: 0\-127 VOB(AC3): 128\-159 VOB(LPCM): 160\-191] MPlayer prints the available IDs when running in verbose (-v) mode. .TP .B \-alang (also see \-aid option) Works only for DVD playback. It selects the DVD audio language and always tries to play audio streams whose language matches the given code. For the list of available languages, use with the \-v switch and look at the output. .I EXAMPLE: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs "\-alang hu,en" Plays Hungarian and falls back to English if Hungarian is not available. .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-audio\-demuxer (\-audiofile only) Force audio demuxer type for \-audiofile. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. Use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. .TP .B \-audiofile Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) while viewing a movie. .TP .B \-bandwidth Specify the maximum bandwidth for network streaming (for servers that are able to send content in different bitrates). Usefull if you want to watch live streamed media behind a slow connection. .TP .B \-cdrom\-device Override default CDROM drive name /dev/\:cdrom. .TP .B \-cache This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/\:URL. Especially useful on slow media (default is \-nocache). .TP .B \-cdda This option can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of MPlayer. .br Available options are: . .RSs .IPs speed= set CD spin speed .IPs paranoia=<0\-2> set paranoia level .RSss 0: disable checking .br 1: overlap checking only (default) .br 2: full data correction and verification .REss .IPs generic-dev= use specified generic SCSI device .IPs sector-size= atomic read size .IPs overlap= force minimum overlap search during verification to sectors. .IPs toc-bias Assume that the beginning offset of track 1 as reported in the TOC will be addressed as LBA\ 0. Some Toshiba drives need this for getting track boundaries correct. .IPs toc-offset= Add sectors to the values reported when addressing tracks. May be negative. .IPs (no)skip (never) accept imperfect data reconstruction. .RE . .TP .B \-channels Change the number of playback channels, defaults to '2' if not specified. If the number of output channels is bigger than the number of input channels empty channels are inserted (unless mixing from mono to stereo, then the mono channel is repeated in both output channels). If the number of output channels is smaller than the number of input channels, results depend on the audio decoder (\-afm). Mplayer asks the decoder to decode the audio into as many channels as specified. Now it's up to the decoder to fulfill the requirement. If the decoder outputs more channels than requested, the exceeding channels are truncated. This is usually only important when playing videos with AC3 audio (like DVDs). In that case liba52 does the decoding by default and correctly downmixes the audio into the requested number of channels. .I NOTE: .br This option is honored by codecs (AC3 only) filters (surround) and ao drivers (OSS at least). .br Available options are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs 2 Stereo .IPs 4 Surround .IPs 6 Full 5.1 .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-chapter [-] Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to end playing at (default: 1). Examples can be found below. .TP .B \-csslib (old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so. .TP .B \-cuefile (see \-vcd too) Play (S)VCD from CDRwin's (bin/cue fileformat) disk image, described by the specified file. .TP .B \-demuxer Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. Use \-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. .TP .B \-dumpaudio (MPLAYER only) Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./\:stream.dump (useful with mpeg/\:ac3). .TP .B \-dumpfile (MPLAYER only) Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together with \-dumpaudio / \-dumpvideo / \-dumpstream. .TP .B \-dumpstream (MPLAYER only) Dumps the raw stream to ./\:stream.dump. Useful when ripping from DVD or network. .TP .B \-dumpvideo (MPLAYER only) Dump raw compressed video stream to ./\:stream.dump (not very usable). .TP .B \-dvd Tell MPlayer which movies (specified by title id) to play. For example sometimes '1' is a trailer, and '2' is the real movie. .I NOTE: .br Sometimes deinterlacing is required for DVD playback, see the \-vop pp=0x20000 option. .TP .B \-dvd\-device Override default DVD device name /dev/\:dvd. .TP .B \-dvdangle Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles. Here you can tell MPlayer which angles to use (default: 1). Examples can be found below. .TP .B \-dvdauth (old-style DVD option) Turns on DVD authentication using the given device. .TP .B \-dvdkey (old-style DVD option) When decoding a VOB file copied undecrypted from DVD, this option gives the CSS key needed to decrypt the VOB (the key is printed when authenticating with the DVD drive using \-dvdauth). .TP .B \-dvdnav (BETA CODE!) Force usage of libdvdnav. .TP .B \-forceidx Force rebuilding of INDEX. Useful for files with broken index (desyncs, etc). Seeking will be possible. You can fix the index permanently with MEncoder (see the documentation). .TP .B \-fps Override video framerate (if value is wrong/\:missing in the header) (float number). .TP .B \-frames Play/\:convert only first frames, then quit. .TP .B \-hr\-mp3\-seek (.MP3 only) Hi\-res mp3 seeking. Default is: enabled when playing from external MP3 file, as we need to seek to the very exact position to keep A/\:V sync.It can be slow especially when seeking backwards \- it has to rewind to the beginning to find the exact frame. .TP .B \-idx (also see \-forceidx) Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/\:incomplete downloads, or badly created AVIs. .TP .B \-mc Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds). .TP .B \-mf Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files. .br Available options are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs on\ \ \ turns on multifile support .IPs w= width of the output (autodetect) .IPs h= height of the output (autodetect) .IPs fps= fps of the output (default: 25) .IPs type= type of input files (available types: jpeg, png, tga) .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-ni (.AVI only) Force usage of non\-interleaved AVI parser (fixes playing of some bad AVI files). .TP .B \-nobps (.AVI only) Do not use average byte/\:sec value for A\-V sync (AVI). Helps with some AVI files with broken header. .TP .B \-noextbased Disables filename-extension based demuxer selection. By default, when file type (demuxer) cannot be detected reliably (the file has no header or it is not reliable enough), the filename extension is used to select demuxer. It always falls back to content-based demuxer selection. .TP .B \-passwd (see \-user option too) Specify password for http authentication. .TP .B \-rawaudio This option lets you play raw audio files. It may also be used to play audio CDs which are not 44KHz 16Bit stereo. .br Available options are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs on\ \ \ use raw audio demuxer .IPs channels= number of channels .IPs rate= rate in samples per second .IPs samplesize= sample size in byte .IPs format= fourcc in hex .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-rawvideo This option lets you play raw video files. .br Available options are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs on\ \ \ use raw video demuxer .IPs fps= rate in frames per second, default 25.0 .IPs sqcif|qcif|cif|4cif|pal|ntsc set standard image size .IPs w= image width in pixels .IPs h= image height in pixels .IPs y420|yv12|yuy2|y8 set colorspace .IPs format= colorspace (fourcc) in hex .IPs size= frame size in bytes .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-rtsp-stream-over-tcp Used with 'rtsp://' URLs to specify that the resulting incoming RTP and RTCP packets be streamed over TCP (using the same TCP connection as RTSP). This option may be useful if you have a broken Internet connection that does not pass incoming UDP packets (see http://www.live.com/mplayer/). .TP .B \-skipopening Skip DVD opening (dvdnav only). .TP .B \-sb (see \-ss option too) Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CDROM images / .VOB files with junk at the beginning. .TP .B \-srate Forces the given audio playback rate, changing video speed to keep a-v sync. MEncoder passes this value to lame for resampling. .TP .B \-ss