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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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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. |
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24 - For the GUI you need the libpng and GTK development packages. |
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27 Before you start... |
22197 | 28 Make sure that your version of X has Xvideo support, without it even very |
29 fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution videos in | |
30 fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details. There you may | |
31 also find out about special card-specific video output drivers that can yield | |
32 optimal performance. | |
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35 ______________________ |
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36 STEP0: Getting MPlayer |
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37 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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39 Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as binary codec packages |
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40 and a number of different skins for the GUI are available from the download |
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46 video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these by default, |
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18659 | 49 You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get |
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18659 | 52 svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer |
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18659 | 54 A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary |
55 FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in | |
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18659 | 64 STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs |
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68 few formats no native decoder exists and external binary codecs are required | |
69 to handle them, for example newer RealVideo variants and a variety of uncommon | |
70 formats. This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to | |
71 play a broader range of formats. Please note that binary codecs only work on | |
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74 Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer |
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76 /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to |
20545 | 77 something else by passing the '--codecsdir' option to './configure'. |
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18659 | 81 STEP2: Configuring MPlayer |
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84 MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run |
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18659 | 160 STEP5: Installing a GUI skin |
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166 via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or |
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185 To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try: |
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10405 | 188 mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd |
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190 See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options. |
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192 'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment |
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193 with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance. |
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195 '-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback |
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196 is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a |
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201 Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation. |
11183 | 202 The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and |
203 DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read | |
204 DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html. |