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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. An unofficial graphical frontend exists but is
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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 - You need a working development environment that can compile programs.
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20 On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc development
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21 package(s) installed.
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22 - To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the X Window System
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23 development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed.
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24 - For the GUI you need the libpng and GTK development packages.
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27 Before you start...
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28 Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html to see
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29 which driver to use with your video card to get the best quality and
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30 performance. Most cards require special drivers not included with XFree86 to
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31 drive their 2-D video acceleration features like YUV and scaling.
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33 Without accelerated video even an 800MHz P3 may be too slow to play DVDs.
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36 ______________________
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37 STEP0: Getting MPlayer
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38 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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39
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40 Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as binary codec packages
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41 and a number of different skins for the GUI are available from the download
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42 section of our homepage at
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44 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
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46 The GUI needs at least one skin and codec packages add support for some more
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47 video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these by default,
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48 you have to download and install them separately.
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50 You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get
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51 the latest sources:
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53 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
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55 A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary
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56 FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in
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57 the past. You can later update your sources by saying
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61 from within that directory.
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64 _______________________________
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65 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs
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66 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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68 MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats, but
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69 for some external binary codecs are required. Examples include newer RealVideo
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70 variants and a couple of uncommon formats. This step is not mandatory, but
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71 recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of formats. Please
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72 note that binary codecs only work on the platform they were compiled for.
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73 We provide packages for x86 and PowerPC.
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75 Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer
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76 will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be
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77 /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to
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78 something else by using the '--with-codecsdir=DIR' option when you run
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79 './configure'.
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82 __________________________
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83 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer
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84 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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86 MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run
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88 ./configure
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90 to configure MPlayer with the default options. The codecs you installed above
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91 should be autodetected. GUI support has to be enabled separately, run
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95 if you want to use the GUI.
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97 If something does not work as expected, try
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99 ./configure --help
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101 to see the available options and select what you need.
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103 The configure script prints a summary of enabled and disabled options. If you
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104 have something installed that configure fails to detect, check the file
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105 configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until
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106 you are satisfied with the enabled feature set.
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109 ________________________
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110 STEP3: Compiling MPlayer
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113 Now you can start the compilation by typing
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117 You can install MPlayer with
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119 make install
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121 provided that you have write permission in the installation directory.
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123 If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'. A help screen with a
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124 summary of the most common options and keyboard shortcuts should be displayed.
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126 If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, run
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127 'ldd ./mplayer' to check which libraries fail and go back to STEP 3 to fix it.
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128 Sometimes running 'ldconfig' is enough to fix the problem.
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130 NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper Debian
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131 .deb package with only one command:
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133 fakeroot debian/rules binary
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135 If you want to pass custom options to configure, you can set up the
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141 You can also pass some variables to the Makefile. For example, if you want
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150 ______________________________________
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151 STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font
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152 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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 ____________________________
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162 STEP5: Installing a GUI skin
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163 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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164
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165 Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or
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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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169 make a suitable symbolic link.
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172 __________________
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173 STEP6: Let's play!
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174 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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175
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176 That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try
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178 mplayer <moviefile>
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179
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180 or for the GUI
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182 gmplayer <moviefile>
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183
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184 gmplayer is a symbolic link to mplayer created by 'make install'.
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185 Without <moviefile>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use the GUI
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186 filepicker.
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187
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188 To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try:
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189
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190 mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
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191 mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd
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192
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193 See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options.
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195 'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment
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196 with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance.
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197 If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see
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198 '-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback
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199 is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a
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200 good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 DivX
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201 files smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop'
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202 option.
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204 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation.
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205 The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and
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206 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read
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207 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.