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12851 | 1 Welcome to MPlayer, The Movie Player. MPlayer can play most standard video |
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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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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 |
11183 | 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: |
10228 | 19 - You need a working development environment that can compile programs. |
20 On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc development | |
21 package(s) installed. | |
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15872 | 23 development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed. |
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29 which driver to use with your video card to get the best quality and | |
11183 | 30 performance. Most cards require special drivers not included with XFree86 to |
31 drive their 2-D video acceleration features like YUV and scaling. | |
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36 ______________________ |
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37 STEP0: Getting MPlayer |
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38 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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18659 | 50 You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get |
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18659 | 53 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer |
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18659 | 55 A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary |
56 FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in | |
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18659 | 65 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs |
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70 variants and a couple of uncommon formats. This step is not mandatory, but | |
71 recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of formats. Please | |
72 note that binary codecs only work on the platform they were compiled for. | |
73 We provide packages for x86 and PowerPC. | |
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18659 | 82 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer |
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150 STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font |
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151 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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153 You can use any TrueType font installed on your system. Just pass '-font |
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154 /path/to/font.ttf' on the command line or add 'font=/path/to/font.ttf' to |
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155 your configuration file. The manual page has more details. Alternatively |
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156 you can create a symbolic link from either ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or |
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157 /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font. |
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18659 | 161 STEP5: Installing a GUI skin |
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165 ~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default |
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166 of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told otherwise |
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167 via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or |
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171 __________________ |
18659 | 172 STEP6: Let's play! |
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175 That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try |
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177 mplayer <moviefile> |
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184 Without <moviefile>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use the GUI |
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187 To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try: |
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10405 | 190 mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd |
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194 'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment |
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195 with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance. |
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196 If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see |
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197 '-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback |
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198 is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a |
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199 good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 DivX |
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201 option. |
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203 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation. |
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205 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read | |
206 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. |