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If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and search for the topic, read the FAQ, or try grepping through the files. Most questions should be answered somewhere here and the rest has probably already been asked on our mailing lists. Check the archives, there is a lot of valuable information to be found there. And for another good advice, let me quote Chris Phillips from the mplayer-users mailing list:
I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars, girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective, otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the ports section). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora and DivX movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). Another big 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 and SDL (and this way all their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (10 supported types) with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)?
The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, or
permanently with MEncoder, thus enabling seeking!
As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
but the speed is also amazing.
MEncoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like DivX4 (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 audio. Also has powerful plugin system for video manipulation.
-ofps option (useful when encoding
29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
"This began a year ago... I have tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,videolan, xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one..." A'rpi, 2001
In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and configuring process of MPlayer. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It will take some time, but it IS worth it.
You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.
/usr/local/lib/codecs/ BEFORE compiling
MPlayer, otherwise no Win32 support will be compiled!libvorbis properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or
compile from
source
(this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has hardware scaling and YUV acceleration support, the other cards don't.
They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in their memory, with small CPU usage (even when zooming), thus fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.
Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling software scaling
(use the -zoom or -vf scale
option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution
video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the
latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by
using the -vm option and it works with the following drivers:
clgenfb
driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus
unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID
before compilation.-bpp 8.Then build MPlayer:
./configure
make
make install
At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The
$PREFIX/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf file is needed only when you
want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy
of it.
Check if you have codecs.conf in your home directory
(~/.mplayer/codecs.conf) left from old MPlayer versions, and
remove it.
Note that if you have a codecs.conf in ~/.mplayer/,
the builtin and system codecs.conf will be ignored completely.
Do not do this unless you want to fiddle with MPlayer internals as this can
can cause many problems. If you want to change the codecs search order, use
the -vc, -ac, -vfm, or -afm
options either on the command line or in your config file (see the manual
page).
Debian users can build a .deb package for themselves,
it's very simple. Just exec fakeroot debian/rules binary in
MPlayer's root directory. See
Debian packaging for detailed
instructions.
Always browse the output of ./configure, and the
configure.log file, they contain information about what will be
built, and what will not. You may also want to view config.h and
config.mak files.
If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by
./configure, then check if you also have the proper header files
(usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The
configure.log file usually tells you what is missing.
Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD, and subtitle functionality. The recommended method is installing a TTF font file and telling MPlayer to use it. See the Subtitles and OSD section for details.
The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x (it isn't fully GTK, but the panels are). The skins
are stored in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff, usually
called gtk-dev and libpng-dev) has to be installed.
You can build it by specifying --enable-gui during
./configure. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you have to
gmplayer binary.
Currently you can't use the -gui option on the command line,
due to technical reasons.
As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
you want to use the GUI. See the
download page.
They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory
($PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin), or to
$HOME/.mplayer/Skin. MPlayer by default looks in these
directories for a directory named default, but you can use the
-skin newskin option, or the skin=newskin config
file directive to use the skin in */Skin/newskin directory.
MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following formats are supported:
MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats (except the three first) into the following destination formats, with the given options:
-dumpmpsub-dumpsrtsub-dumpmicrodvdsub-dumpjacosub-dumpsamiMEncoder can dump DVD subtitles into VobSub format.
The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:
VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional
.IDX and/or .IFO files.
Usage: If you have files like sample.sub,
sample.ifo (optional), sample.idx - you have to pass
MPlayer the -vobsub sample [-vobsubid <id>] options (full
path optional). The -vobsubid option is like -sid
for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it. In case
that -vobsubid is omitted, MPlayer will try to use the languages
given by the -slang option and fall back to the
langidx item in the .IDX file to set the subtitle language. If
that fails, there will be no subtitles.
The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
placement and text information.
Usage: If you have a file like sample.txt, you have to pass the
option -sub sample.txt (full path optional).
-subdelay <sec>-subfps <rate>-subpos <0 - 100>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and
the subtitle file are different.
Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the
-subfps option cannot be used with this format. As
MPlayer has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you
have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the
contrib directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion
for you.
MPlayer will try to guess the subtitle files you want to use when playing a movie. If, like in most cases, subtitle and movie files have the same name and are in the same place, you do not need to set the subtitle options. Just play the movie, MPlayer will handle the subtitles automatically.
About DVD subtitles, read the DVD section.
MPlayer introduces a new subtitle format called MPsub. It was designed by Gabucino. Basically its main feature is being dynamically time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example (from DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub):
FORMAT=TIME
# first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared
# second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds
15 3
A long long, time ago...
0 3
in a galaxy far away...
0 3
Naboo was under an attack.
So you see, the main goal was to make subtitle
editing/timing/joining/cutting easy. And, if you - say - get an SSA
subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you
simply do a mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub.
A dump.mpsub file will be created in the current directory,
which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in MPsub format.
Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.
Subtitles are displayed with a technique called 'OSD', On Screen Display. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.
You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature. There are many ways to get it:
-font /path/to/arial.ttf option to specify
a TrueType font file on every occasionln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf-utf8
option or just name the subtitles file <video_name>.utf and have it
in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to
utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat)
programs.If you chose non-TTF fonts, UNZIP the file you downloaded to ~/.mplayer or
$PREFIX/share/mplayer. Then rename or symlink one of the extracted directories to
font (like: ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24
~/.mplayer/font). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner
of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).
OSD has 4 states: (switch with 'o')
(subtitles are always enabled, for disabling them please read the man page)
You can change default behaviour by setting osdlevel= variable
in config file, or the -osdlevel command line option.
MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.
NOTE: the Preferences menu is currently UNIMPLEMENTED!
--enable-menu parameters to
./configureetc/menu.conf to your .mplayer
directoryetc/input.conf to your .mplayer
directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
/usr/local/etc/mplayer)input.conf to enable menu movement
keys (it is described there).$ mplayer -menu file.aviusleep() to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However
sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer./proc filesystem.
Use this command to enable RTC for normal users:
echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
drivers/char/rtc.c and recompile your kernel. Find the
section that reads
* We don't really want Joe User enabling more
* than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine.
*/
if ((rtc_freq > 64) && (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)))
and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though.
-nortc option.
In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD
drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback.
It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.-softsleep
option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other
hand, it requires more CPU.This section is about how to enable watching/grabbing from V4L compatible TV tuner. See the man page for a description of TV options and keyboard controls.
./configure will autodetect
kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of /dev/video*
entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of
./configure).channels option. An example:-tv channels=26-MTV1,23-TV2-vf pp=DEINT_TYPE. Usually
pp=lb does a good job, but it can be matter of personal
preference. See other deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a
try.crop option so that all the crap
at the margins is cropped out. Again, don't forget to keep the resulting
dimensions sane.outfmt unless you know what you are doing
or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12 colorspace).
In the older versions of MPlayer/MEncoder it was necessary to specify the
output format. This issue should be fixed in the current releases and
outfmt isn't required anymore, and the default suits the most
purposes. For example, if you are capturing into DivX using libavcodec and
specify outfmt=RGB24 in order to increase the quality of the
captured images, the captured image will be actually later converted back
into YV12 so the only thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
outfmt=i420), you have to
add an option -vc rawi420 due to a fourcc conflict with an
Intel Indeo video codec.linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio file (in the kernel tree,
not MPlayer's) for some instructions on using this driver.Dummy output, to AAlib :)
mplayer -tv driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa tv://
Input from standard V4L
mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -vo xv tv://
A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full
PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using
a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant
bitrate of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for
capturing movies.
mencoder -tv
driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \
-oac
mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \
-vf
crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o output.avi tv://
This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses
the video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The
vqmax option looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to
actualy reach so low bitrate even at the expense of the
quality. This can be used for capturing long TV series, where the
video quality isn't so important.
mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \
-vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=tn/lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi tv://
It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
-tv option and omit the software scaling but this
approach uses the maximum available information and is a little more
resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the pixel averaging only
in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.
The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL configuration file.
This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly" mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you watch.
The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. Once the EDL system has reached a certain level of maturity, an XML-based file format will probably be implemented (keeping backwards compatibility with previous EDL formats).
The maximum number of EDL entries for the current incarnation of EDL is 1000.
If you happen to need more, change the #define MAX_EDL_ENTRIES
in the edl.h file.
Include the -edl <filename> flag when you run MPlayer,
with the name of the EDL file you want applied to the video.
The current EDL file format is:
[begin second] [end second] [action]
Where the seconds are floating-point numbers and the action is either
0 for skip or 1 for mute. Example:
5.3 7.1 0 15 16.7 1 420 422 0
This will skip from second 5.3 to second 7.1 of the video, then mute at 15 seconds, unmute at 16.7 seconds and skip from second 420 to second 422 of the video. These actions will be performed when the playback timer reaches the times given in the file.
To create an EDL file to work from, use the
-edlout <filename> flag. During playback, when you want to
mark the previous two seconds to skip over, hit i. A
corresponding entry will be written to the file for that time. You can then go
back and fine-tune the generated EDL file.
MPlayer utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options
written as first (for example mplayer -vfm 5), and options
written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever
(for example mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4).
You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with
option -loop: mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3
will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2
| file | mplayer [options] [path/]filename | ||
| files | mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ... | ||
| VCD | mplayer [options] vcd:// trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom] | ||
| DVD | mplayer [options] dvd:// titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd] | ||
| WWW | mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used, too) | ||
| RTSP | mplayer [options] rtsp://server.example.com/streamName |
mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which lets you control MPlayer with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote control (using LIRC). See the man page for the complete list of keyboard controls.
MPlayer allows you bind any key/button to any MPlayer command
using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a
command. The default config file location is
$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf but it can be overridden using the
-input conf option (relative path are relative to
$HOME/.mplayer).
Example:
## ## MPlayer input control file ## RIGHT seek +10 LEFT seek -10 - audio_delay 0.100 + audio_delay -0.100 q quit > pt_step 1 < pt_step -1 ENTER pt_step 1 1
You can have a full list by running mplayer -input keylist
You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"
Seek to some place in the movie.
Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.
Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.
Adjust the audio delay of val seconds
Quit MPlayer
Pause/unpause the playback
Somebody know ?
Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.
If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything
unless force is non 0.
Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful to break inner loop in the playtree.
When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one (only supported by asx playlist).
Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds when abs is non zero.
Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level > 0.
Increase/decrease volume
Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.
Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.
Toggle subtitle visibility.
Adjust subtitles position.
Change the language of VobSub subtitles.
Switch fullscreen mode.
Select next/previous tv channel.
Change TV norm.
Change channel list.
GUI actions
Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver, an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it! More about it at www.lirc.org.
If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like "Setting up lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doesn't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-)
The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - mplayer.
You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by
separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc
when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my
.lircrc:
begin
button = VOLUME_PLUS
prog = mplayer
config = volume 1
repeat = 1
end
begin
button = VOLUME_MINUS
prog = mplayer
config = volume -1
repeat = 1
end
begin
button = CD_PLAY
prog = mplayer
config = pause
end
begin
button = CD_STOP
prog = mplayer
config = seek 0 1\npause
end
If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc) use the -lircconf <filename> option to specify another file.
The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to MPlayer. When
enabled (with the -slave option) MPlayer will read
commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.
MPlayer can play files from network, using the HTTP, FTP, MMS or RTSP/RTP protocol.
Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line. MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:
mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf
MPlayer can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example used to play from FTP:
wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -
Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:
wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -
The main development platform is Linux on x86, although MPlayer works on many other Linux ports. Binary packages of MPlayer are available from several sources. However, none of these packages are supported. Report problems to the authors, not to us.
To build a Debian package, run the following command in the MPlayer source directory:
fakeroot debian/rules binary
As root you can then install the .deb package as usual:
dpkg -i ../mplayer_<version>.deb
Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his homepage.
Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of MPlayer. He has packaged the player, the GUI, fonts, skins, several drivers and codecs. All of this is available from his homepage.
Mandrake RPM packages are available from the P.L.F. SuSE includes a crippled version of MPlayer in their distribution. You can get working SuSE RPMs from links2linux.de.
MPlayer works on Linux PDAs with ARM CPU e.g. Sharp Zaurus, Compaq Ipaq.
The easiest way to obtain MPlayer is to get it from one of the
OpenZaurus package feeds.
If you want to compile it yourself, you should look at the
mplayer
and the
libavcodec
directory in the OpenZaurus distribution buildroot. These always have the
latest Makefile and patches used for building a CVS MPlayer with libavcodec.
If you need a GUI frontend, you can use xmms-embedded.
MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. There are ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier to use than our raw sources.
To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not work) and a recent version of binutils.
If MPlayer complains about not finding /dev/cdrom or
/dev/dvd, create an appropiate symbolic link:
ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom.
To use Win32 DLLs with MPlayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with
"option USER_LDT" (unless you run FreeBSD -CURRENT, where this
is the default).
If your CPU has SSE, recompile your kernel with "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to use it (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).
Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will
need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first
in your $PATH and do a gmake -k, then make sure that
the native version is used and do gmake.
MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.
On UltraSPARCs, MPlayer takes advantage of their VIS extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in libmpeg2, libvo and libavcodec, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need mLib installed.
To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris' make instead of GNU make:
% /usr/ccs/bin/make make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.
On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform
makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled
using Sun's assembler /usr/ccs/bin/as.
The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by
your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the
--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as option to tell the
configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).
Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC without GNU assembler:
% configure ... Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")
Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does not use GNU as:
% gmake ... gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c Assembler: mplayer.c "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
Due to bugs in Solaris 8, you may not be able to play DVD discs larger than 4 GB:
This problem does not exist in the SPARC version of Solaris 8.
The hsfs problem can be fixed by installing patch 109764-04 (sparc) / 109765-04 (x86).
On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations. VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's mediaLib.
VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.
You can either try to install the GNU install program, and (if you did not put it in your global path) then point to the location with:
./configure --install-path=PATH
Or you can use the default install delivered with IRIX 6.5 in which case you will have to edit the Makefile by hand a little bit. Change the following line:
$(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
to:
$(INSTALL) -m 644 mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/
And then do (from within the MPlayer source dir):
cp DOCS/mplayer.1 .
and then go on with building and installing.
Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
MPlayer with -vo sdl:photon and -ao sdl:nto
options, and it should be fast.
The -vo x11 output will be even slower than on Linux, since
QNX has only X emulation which is VERY slow. Use SDL.
Yes, MPlayer runs on Windows under Cygwin and MinGW. It does not have a GUI yet, but the command line version is almost completely functional. Patches are always welcome. You should check out the mplayer-cygwin mailing list for help and latest information.
Best results are achieved with the native DirectX video output driver
(-vo directx) and the native Windows waveout audio driver
(-ao win32) as OpenGL does not work and SDL is known to
distort sound and image or crash on some systems. You can make the movie
window stay on top with -vo directx:ontop. If the image is
distorted, try turning off hardware acceleration with
-vo directx:noaccel. Download
DirectX 7 header files
to compile the DirectX video output driver.
Win32 codecs, QuickTime DLLs and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs)
also work. Put the codecs somewhere in your path or pass
--with-codecsdir=c:/path/to/your/codecs (alternatively
--with-codecsdir=/path/to/your/codecs only on Cygwin) to
configure. We have had some reports that Real DLLs need to
be writable by the user running MPlayer, but only on some systems. Try
making them writable if you have problems.
The Cygwin/MinGW console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
-quiet option has been reported to improve performance on some
systems. Direct rendering (-dr) may also help. You can prevent
OSD flicker through double buffering with the -double option.
If playback is jerky, try -autosync 100. If some of
these options help you, you may want to put them in your config file.
There are precompiled binary versions made by Sascha Sommer available for download from our homepage. Joey Parrish has been making unofficial Windows packages complete with installer.
Cygwin versions prior to 1.5.0 do not include inttypes.h. You
will have to copy or symlink etc/cygwin_inttypes.h from the
MPlayer source directory to /usr/include/inttypes.h in order to
make MPlayer compile.
DirectX header files need to be extracted to /usr/include/ or
/usr/local/include/.
Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the libsdl site.
You can play VCDs by playing the .DAT or .MPG files
that Windows exposes on VCDs. It works like this (adjust for the drive letter
of your CD-ROM):
mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat
mplayer /cygdrive/d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG
DVDs also work, adjust -dvd-device for the drive letter of
your DVD-ROM:
mplayer dvd://<title> -dvd-device '\\.\d:'
Installing a version of MinGW that could compile MPlayer used to be quite tricky, but works out of the box now. Just install MinGW 3.1.0 or later and MSYS 1.0.9 or later and tell the MSYS postinstall that MinGW is installed.
If you use a version of MinGW before 3.1.0, you need to replace
/mingw/include/sys/types.h with this
types.h.
Extract DirectX header files to /mingw/include/.
VCDs and DVDs work almost like Cygwin (adjust for the drive letter of your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM):
mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat
mplayer /d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG
mplayer dvd://<title> -dvd-device /d/
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Note: You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch.
Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:
./configure --disable-sse./configure --disable-sse etc. options-ac ffmpeg)Various A-V sync and other audio problems:
General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):Video-out problems:
First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet) supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work. Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.
OSD/sub flickering:
- x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now
- xv driver: use -double option
Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):
- mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option