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1 Welcome to MPlayer, The Movie Player. MPlayer can play most standard video
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2 formats out of the box and almost all others with the help of external codecs.
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3 MPlayer currently works best from the command line, but visual feedback for
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4 many functions is available from its onscreen status display (OSD), which is
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5 also used for displaying subtitles. MPlayer also has a GUI with skin support and
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6 several unofficial alternative graphical frontends are available.
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8 MEncoder is a command line video encoder for advanced users that can be built
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9 from the MPlayer source tree. Unofficial graphical frontends exist but are
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10 not included.
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12 This document is for getting you started in a few minutes. It cannot answer all
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13 of your questions. If you have problems, please read the documentation in
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14 DOCS/HTML/en/index.html, which should help you solve most of your problems.
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15 Also read the man page to learn how to use MPlayer.
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18 Requirements:
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19 - POSIX system: You need a POSIX-compatible shell and POSIX-compatible system
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20 tools like grep, sed, awk, etc. in your path.
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21 - You need a working development environment that can compile programs.
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22 On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc development
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23 package(s) installed.
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24 - To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the X Window System
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25 development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed.
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26 - For the GUI you need the GTK development packages.
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29 Before you start...
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30 Make sure that your version of X has Xvideo support, without it even very
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31 fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution videos in
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32 fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details. There you may
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33 also find out about special card-specific video output drivers that can yield
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34 optimal performance.
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37 ______________________
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38 STEP0: Getting MPlayer
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39 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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40
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41 Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as binary codec packages
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42 and a number of different skins for the GUI are available from the download
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43 section of our homepage at
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45 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
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47 MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats. For a
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48 few formats no native decoder exists and external binary codecs are required
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49 to handle them. Examples are newer RealVideo variants and a variety of rare
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50 formats. However, binary codecs are NOT required in this day and age, they are
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51 strictly optional.
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53 Please note that binary codecs only work on the processor architecture they
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54 were compiled for. Choose the correct package for your processor. No other
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55 package is necessary.
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57 The GUI needs at least one skin and codec packages add support for some more
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58 video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these by default,
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59 you have to download and install them separately.
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61 You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get
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62 the latest sources:
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64 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
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66 A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary
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67 FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in
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68 the past. You can later update your sources by saying
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70 svn update
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72 from within that directory.
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75 _______________________________
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76 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs
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77 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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79 Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer
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80 will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be
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81 /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to
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82 something else by passing the '--codecsdir' option to './configure'.
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85 __________________________
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86 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer
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87 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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89 MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run
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91 ./configure
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93 to configure MPlayer with the default options. GUI support has to be enabled
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94 separately, run
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96 ./configure --enable-gui
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98 if you want to use the GUI.
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100 If something does not work as expected, try
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102 ./configure --help
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104 to see the available options and select what you need.
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106 The configure script prints a summary of enabled and disabled options. If you
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107 have something installed that configure fails to detect, check the file
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108 configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until
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109 you are satisfied with the enabled feature set.
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112 ________________________
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113 STEP3: Compiling MPlayer
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116 Now you can start the compilation by typing
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120 You can install MPlayer with
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122 make install
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124 provided that you have write permission in the installation directory.
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126 If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'. A help screen with a
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127 summary of the most common options and keyboard shortcuts should be displayed.
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129 If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, run
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130 'ldd ./mplayer' to check which libraries fail and go back to STEP 3 to fix it.
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131 Sometimes running 'ldconfig' is enough to fix the problem.
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133 NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper Debian
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134 .deb package with only one command:
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136 fakeroot debian/rules binary
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138 If you want to pass custom options to configure, you can set up the
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139 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. For instance, if you want GUI
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140 and OSD menu support you would use:
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144 You can also pass some variables to the Makefile. For example, if you want
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145 to compile with gcc 3.4 even if it's not the default compiler:
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149 To clean up the source tree run the following command:
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151 fakeroot debian/rules clean
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153 ______________________________________
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154 STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font
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155 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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157 You can use any TrueType font installed on your system. Just pass '-font
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158 /path/to/font.ttf' on the command line or add 'font=/path/to/font.ttf' to
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159 your configuration file. The manual page has more details. Alternatively
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160 you can create a symbolic link from either ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or
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161 /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font.
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164 ____________________________
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165 STEP5: Installing a GUI skin
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166 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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167
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168 Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or
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169 ~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default
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170 of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told otherwise
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171 via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or
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172 make a suitable symbolic link.
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175 __________________
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176 STEP6: Let's play!
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177 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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178
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179 That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try
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181 mplayer <moviefile>
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182
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183 or for the GUI
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185 gmplayer <moviefile>
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186
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187 gmplayer is a symbolic link to mplayer created by 'make install'.
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188 Without <moviefile>, gmplayer will start with the GUI filepicker.
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189
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190 To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try:
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191
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192 mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
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193 mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd
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195 See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options.
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196
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197 'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment
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198 with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance.
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199 If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see
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200 '-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback
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201 is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a
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202 good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 MPEG-4
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203 files smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop'
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204 option.
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206 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation.
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207 The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and
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208 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read
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209 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.