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The GUI is badly designed and too closely coupled to the internal details of other code. The GUI code is in bad shape and unmaintained for years. There is no indication that anyone would maintain it in the future either. Even if someone did volunteer to implement a better integrated GUI having the current code in the tree probably wouldn't help much. So get rid of it.
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Welcome to MPlayer, The Movie Player. MPlayer can play most standard video
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formats out of the box and almost all others with the help of external codecs.
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MPlayer currently works best from the command line, but visual feedback for
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many functions is available from its onscreen status display (OSD), which is
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also used for displaying subtitles.
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MEncoder is a command line video encoder for advanced users that can be built
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from the MPlayer source tree. Unofficial graphical frontends exist but are
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not included.
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This document is for getting you started in a few minutes. It cannot answer all
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of your questions. If you have problems, please read the documentation in
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DOCS/HTML/en/index.html, which should help you solve most of your problems.
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Also read the man page to learn how to use MPlayer.
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Requirements:
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- POSIX system: You need a POSIX-compatible shell and POSIX-compatible system
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tools like grep, sed, awk, etc. in your path.
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- You need a working development environment that can compile programs.
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On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc development
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package(s) installed.
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- To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the X Window System
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development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed.
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Before you start...
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Make sure that your version of X has Xvideo support, without it even very
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fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution videos in
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fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details. There you may
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also find out about special card-specific video output drivers that can yield
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optimal performance.
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STEP0: Getting MPlayer
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Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as binary codec packages
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available from the download section of our homepage at
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
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MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats. For a
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few formats no native decoder exists and external binary codecs are required
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to handle them. Examples are newer RealVideo variants and a variety of rare
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formats. However, binary codecs are NOT required in this day and age, they are
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strictly optional.
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Please note that binary codecs only work on the processor architecture they
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were compiled for. Choose the correct package for your processor. No other
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package is necessary.
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Codec packages add support for some more video and audio formats. MPlayer does
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not come with any of these by default, you have to download and install them
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separately.
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You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get
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the latest sources:
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svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
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A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary
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FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in
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the past. You can later update your sources by saying
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svn update
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from within that directory.
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STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs
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Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer
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will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be
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/usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to
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something else by passing the '--codecsdir' option to './configure'.
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STEP2: Configuring MPlayer
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run
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./configure
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to configure MPlayer with the default options. If something does not work as
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expected, try
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./configure --help
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to see the available options and select what you need.
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The configure script prints a summary of enabled and disabled options. If you
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have something installed that configure fails to detect, check the file
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configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until
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you are satisfied with the enabled feature set.
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STEP3: Compiling MPlayer
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Now you can start the compilation by typing
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make
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You can install MPlayer with
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make install
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provided that you have write permission in the installation directory.
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If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'. A help screen with a
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summary of the most common options and keyboard shortcuts should be displayed.
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If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, run
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'ldd ./mplayer' to check which libraries fail and go back to STEP 3 to fix it.
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Sometimes running 'ldconfig' is enough to fix the problem.
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NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper Debian
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.deb package with only one command:
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fakeroot debian/rules binary
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If you want to pass custom options to configure, you can set up the
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DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. For instance, if you want OSD menu
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support you would use:
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DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-menu" fakeroot debian/rules binary
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You can also pass some variables to the Makefile. For example, if you want
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to compile with gcc 3.4 even if it's not the default compiler:
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CC=gcc-3.4 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-menu" fakeroot debian/rules binary
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To clean up the source tree run the following command:
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fakeroot debian/rules clean
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STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can use any TrueType font installed on your system. Just pass '-font
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/path/to/font.ttf' on the command line or add 'font=/path/to/font.ttf' to
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your configuration file. The manual page has more details. Alternatively
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you can create a symbolic link from either ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or
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/usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font.
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STEP5: Let's play!
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That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try
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mplayer <moviefile>
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To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try:
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mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
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mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd
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See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options.
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'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment
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with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance.
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If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see
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'-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback
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is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a
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good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 MPEG-4
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files smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop'
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option.
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Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation.
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The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and
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DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read
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DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
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