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support for audio stream switching
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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 1.2 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 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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39 DOCS/HTML/en/video.html.
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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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47
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48 Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as fonts for the OSD, codec
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49 packages and a number of different skins for the GUI are available from the
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50 download section of our homepage at
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52 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
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54 A set of fonts is necessary for the OSD and subtitles unless you are using
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55 TrueType fonts, the GUI needs at least one skin and codec packages add support
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56 for some more video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these
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57 by default, you have to download and install them separately.
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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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62 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
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64 A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary
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65 FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in
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66 the past. You can later update your sources by saying
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68 svn update
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70 from within that directory.
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73 _______________________________
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74 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs
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75 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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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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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87 something else by using the '--with-codecsdir=DIR' option when you run
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88 './configure'.
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91 __________________________
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92 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer
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93 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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95 MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run
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97 ./configure
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99 to configure MPlayer with the default options. The codecs you installed above
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100 should be autodetected. GUI support has to be enabled separately, run
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104 if you want to use the GUI.
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106 If something does not work as expected, try
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108 ./configure --help
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110 to see the available options and select what you need.
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112 The configure script prints a summary of enabled and disabled options. If you
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113 have something installed that configure fails to detect, check the file
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114 configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until
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115 you are satisfied with the enabled feature set.
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118 ________________________
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119 STEP3: Compiling MPlayer
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122 Now you can start the compilation by typing
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126 You can install MPlayer with
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128 make install
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130 provided that you have write permission in the installation directory.
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132 If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'. A help screen with a
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133 summary of the most common options and keyboard shortcuts should be displayed.
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135 If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, run
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136 'ldd ./mplayer' to check which libraries fail and go back to STEP 3 to fix it.
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137 Sometimes running 'ldconfig' is enough to fix the problem.
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139 NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper Debian
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140 .deb package with only one command:
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145 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. For instance, if you want GUI
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150 You can also pass some variables to the Makefile. For example, if you want
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155 To clean up the source tree run the following command:
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157 fakeroot debian/rules clean
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159 ____________________________________________
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160 STEP4: Installing the onscreen display fonts
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161 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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162
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163 Unpack the archive and choose one of the available font sizes. Then copy the
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164 font files of the corresponding size into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/ or
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165 ~/.mplayer/font/ (or whatever you set with './configure --datadir=DIR').
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167 Alternatively you can use a TrueType font installed on your system. Just
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168 make a symbolic link from either /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf or
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169 ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font.
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172 ____________________________
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173 STEP5: Installing a GUI skin
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176 Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or
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177 ~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default
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178 of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told otherwise
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179 via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or
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180 make a suitable symbolic link.
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183 __________________
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184 STEP6: Let's play!
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185 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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186
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187 That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try
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189 mplayer <moviefile>
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190
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191 or for the GUI
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193 gmplayer <moviefile>
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195 gmplayer is a symbolic link to mplayer created by 'make install'.
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196 Without <moviefile>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use the GUI
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197 filepicker.
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199 To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try:
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200
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201 mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
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202 mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd
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204 See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options.
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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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208 If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see
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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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212 files smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop'
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213 option.
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215 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation.
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216 The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and
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217 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read
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218 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.