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Fix linking after FFmpeg merge.
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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 |
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15 Also read the man page to learn how to use MPlayer. |
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18 Requirements: |
28387 | 19 - POSIX system: You need a POSIX-compatible shell and POSIX-compatible system |
20 tools like grep, sed, awk, etc. in your path. | |
10228 | 21 - You need a working development environment that can compile programs. |
22 On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc development | |
23 package(s) installed. | |
15834 | 24 - To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the X Window System |
15872 | 25 development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed. |
23207 | 26 - For the GUI you need the GTK development packages. |
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31 fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution videos in | |
32 fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details. There you may | |
33 also find out about special card-specific video output drivers that can yield | |
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37 ______________________ |
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38 STEP0: Getting MPlayer |
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39 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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18659 | 76 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs |
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18659 | 86 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer |
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151 STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font |
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154 You can use any TrueType font installed on your system. Just pass '-font |
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155 /path/to/font.ttf' on the command line or add 'font=/path/to/font.ttf' to |
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156 your configuration file. The manual page has more details. Alternatively |
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157 you can create a symbolic link from either ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or |
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158 /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font. |
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161 ____________________________ |
18659 | 162 STEP5: Installing a GUI skin |
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166 ~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default |
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167 of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told otherwise |
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168 via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or |
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172 __________________ |
18659 | 173 STEP6: Let's play! |
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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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192 See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options. |
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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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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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201 option. |
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203 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation. |
11183 | 204 The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and |
205 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read | |
206 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. |