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12851 | 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. An unofficial graphical frontend exists but is |
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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. | |
15834 | 22 - To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the X Window System |
15872 | 23 development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed. |
7674 | 24 - For the GUI you need the libpng and GTK 1.2 development packages. |
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27 Before you start... |
13914 | 28 Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html to see |
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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33 A quick and incomplete list of recommendations: |
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34 - ATI cards: Get the GATOS drivers for X11/Xv or use VIDIX. |
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35 - Matrox G200/G4x0/G550: Compile and use mga_vid for Linux, on BSD use VIDIX. |
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36 - 3dfx Voodoo3/Banshee: Get XFree86 4.2.0+ for Xv or use the tdfxfb driver. |
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37 - nVidia cards: Get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for Xv support. |
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38 - NeoMagic cards: Get an Xv capable driver from our homepage as described in |
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41 Without accelerated video even an 800MHz P3 may be too slow to play DVDs. |
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44 ______________________ |
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45 STEP0: Getting MPlayer |
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46 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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18659 | 48 Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as fonts for the OSD, codec |
49 packages and a number of different skins for the GUI are available from the | |
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52 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html |
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12851 | 54 A set of fonts is necessary for the OSD and subtitles unless you are using |
55 TrueType fonts, the GUI needs at least one skin and codec packages add support | |
56 for some more video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these | |
57 by default, you have to download and install them separately. | |
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18659 | 59 You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get |
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60 the latest sources: |
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18659 | 62 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer |
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18659 | 64 A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary |
65 FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in | |
66 the past. You can later update your sources by saying | |
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18659 | 68 svn update |
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18659 | 74 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs |
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18659 | 77 MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video |
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78 formats, but some formats require external codecs. Examples include Real, Indeo |
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79 and QuickTime audio formats. Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9 |
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80 exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary. This step is not |
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81 mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of |
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82 formats. Please note that most codecs only work on Intel x86 compatible PCs. |
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84 Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer |
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85 will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be |
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87 something else by using the '--with-codecsdir=DIR' option when you run |
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91 __________________________ |
18659 | 92 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer |
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95 MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run |
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99 to configure MPlayer with the default options. The codecs you installed above |
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114 configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until |
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18659 | 160 STEP4: Installing the onscreen display fonts |
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168 make a symbolic link from either /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf or | |
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179 via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or |
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18659 | 184 STEP6: Let's play! |
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189 mplayer <moviefile> |
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196 Without <moviefile>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use the GUI |
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199 To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try: |
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206 'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment |
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207 with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance. |
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209 '-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback |
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210 is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a |
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211 good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 DivX |
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215 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation. |
11183 | 216 The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and |
217 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read | |
218 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. |