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is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA,
OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of
SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too!
Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
fullscreen. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (7
supported types!!!) with hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and
OSD?</P>

<P>MPlayer <I>would be</I> distributable under the terms of the <A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU GPL</A>, but distributing
binary packages if <B>forbidden</B>, and the MPlayer team ignores bugreports
from you if you use one! The OpenDivX code has its own license.</P>

You'll need this to gain <B>DivX</B> playing on non-x86 machines, or want to
gain bigger speed than the Win32 codec does.</LI>

<LI>For DVD support, you'll have to compile libdvdread and libdvdcss.
See <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">section 4.2</A> for more information.</LI>
</UL>

<P>Then build <B>MPlayer</B>:</P>

<PRE>    ./configure

  <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
  <LI><CODE>ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
  and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.
</UL>
</P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.5>1.5. Subtitles and OSD</A></B></P>

<P>Yes, <B>MPlayer</B> also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently
7 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are

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is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA,
OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of
SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too!
Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
fullscreen. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (7
supported types!!!) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic,
korean fonts, and OSD?</P>

<P>MPlayer <I>would be</I> distributable under the terms of the <A
HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU GPL</A>, but distributing
binary packages if <B>forbidden</B>, and the MPlayer team ignores bugreports
from you if you use one! The OpenDivX code has its own license.</P>

You'll need this to gain <B>DivX</B> playing on non-x86 machines, or want to
gain bigger speed than the Win32 codec does.</LI>

<LI>For DVD support, you'll have to compile libdvdread and libdvdcss.
See <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">section 4.2</A> for more information.</LI>

<LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF=#1.4>1.4 section</A>
before compiling.</LI>
</UL>

<P>Then build <B>MPlayer</B>:</P>

<PRE>    ./configure

  <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
  <LI><CODE>ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
  and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.
</UL>
</P>

<P>As <B>MPlayer</B> doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them
if you want to use the GUI. See the <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory (<CODE>/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>),
or to <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE> . <B>MPlayer</B> by default looks in
these directories for a <I>default</I> named directory, but you can use the
<I>-skin newskin</I> option, or the <I>skin=newskin</I> config file
directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.5>1.5. Subtitles and OSD</A></B></P>

<P>Yes, <B>MPlayer</B> also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently
7 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are