March 24, 2003 2000 2001 2002 2003 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) 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 , 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. MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see ). 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, libcaca, DirectFB, but you can 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. Encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer Encoding to all the codecs of FFmpeg's libavcodec Video encoding from V4L compatible TV tuners Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index Creating files from external audio stream 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding VBR MP3 audio VBR MP3 audio doesn't always play nicely on windows players! PCM audio Stream copying Input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with -mc 0 option) FPS correction with -ofps option (useful when encoding 29.97 fps VOB to 24 fps AVI) Using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) Can encode DVD/VOBsub AND text subtitles into the output file Can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format Even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :). MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. &history.xml; &install.xml; &features.xml; &usage.xml; &faq.xml; &cd-dvd.xml; &ports.xml; &mencoder.xml; &mail-lists.xml; &bugreports.xml; &bugs.xml; &skin.xml; &users-vs-dev.xml; &patches.xml;