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MPlayer is a popular media player for Linux and other operating systems, that plays a very large variety of audio and video file formats (MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs, VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and more).

Unfortunately, like many linux media players, there is no support for midis.

In contrast to other media players such as xine, MPlayer is primarily a command-line tool, although a graphical interface called gmplayer is available. Mplayer also comes with mencoder, an encoding tool that generates many of the video formats that MPlayer supports.

Note: MPlayer does not support the DVDNAV software that plays DVD menus. For menued DVD playback, an alternative player such as vlc must be used.

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Using MPlayer

Invoking MPlayer

To get graphical navigation means, call 

$ gmplayer

The simplest way to invoke mplayer is just to call the command with a video file, e.g. 

$ mplayer myvideo.avi

To start MPlayer in a fullscreen window, use 

$ mplayer -fs myvideo.avi

If you're having difficulty launching mplayer using the suggestion above, try invoking it like this 

$ mplayer -vo x11 myvideo.avi

DVD Playback

As mentioned above, MPlayer does not support the playback of DVD menus. To play the first title on a DVD, use 

$ mplayer dvd://

If the first title is not the main movie, try playing other titles: 

$ mplayer dvd://2
$ mplayer dvd://3

Playback control

The following key commands can be used during playback to control MPlayer. (see /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf)

space or p pause / resume playback
f switch between fullscreen and windowed playback
left/right arrows skip 10 seconds forward/backward
up/down arrows skip 1 minute forward/backward
q stop playback and terminate MPlayer
0/9 or numpad * and / raise/lower volume
o switch between On Screen Display (OSD) modes.
v turn subtitles on/off
z/x raise/lower "sub delay" in increments of "-100ms"
t/r raise/lower "sub position" (subtitle position? - comments?)
a switch subtitle alignment "bottom/top/center"
c switch fullscreen display resolution
n change window playback size from 100% to 200% (anybody found out how to reverse this?)
- and + raise/lower "A-V delay" to manually ensure that audio and video stay in sync

Installing MPlayer

Download, compile, link and install mplayer and its GUI like this: 

svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/branches/1.0rc2 mplayer
cd mplayer
./configure --enable-gui && make && make install

If you get errors and do not know what to do, read Installing software.

TroubleShooting

New_Face failed

Symptome: When calling gmplayer, you get a pop-up saying "New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf)".

Reason: You have not installed mplayer's fonts.

Solution: Do as advised, point your konqueror to fonts:///, select a font you like and copy it to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf.

Configuring MPlayer

MPlayer is configured through a number of configuration files, including /etc/mplayer.conf

Getting MPlayer to work with Mozilla

A lot of times dynamic content is wanted inside of pages. The easiest way to get mplayer to work inside a page is to load mozplugger. Also, add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XFree86Config-4 under the "Screen" section, but before the "Display" subsection: 

Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps"

See also

External links

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