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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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config.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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