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.\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy <[e-mail]-users>
.\" This manpage was/is done by Gabucino <[e-mail]-users>
.\" (Patches done by Jonas Jermann <[e-mail]-users>)
.\" 
.TH "MPlayer" "1" "2002-05-13"

.SH "NAME"
mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux
.br
mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux

.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B mplayer

.B mplayer
is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non\-x86
CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV,
FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many native, XAnim, and
Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV
movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!).

Another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers.
It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use
GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even 
without X!) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too!
.br
Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens
DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+!

Nice big antialiased shaded subtitles with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, 
etc), cyrillic, korean fonts are supported (10 supported subtitle formats: VobSub, MicroDVD,
SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub).

.B mencoder
(MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to
encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET)
to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below).  It encodes to DivX4 
(1, 2 or 3 passes), XviD, codecs of libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. 
Also has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system
(crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) and more.

.B gmplayer
is MPlayer with a graphical user interface.
It has the same options as MPlayer.

.SH GENERAL NOTES
Every "flag" option has "noflag" pair, e.g. \-fs opposite is \-nofs.
.br
.B Check the html documentation too!

.SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS"
.TP
.B \-aid <id>
Select audio channel [MPG: 0\-31 AVI: 1\-99 ASF: 0\-127 VOB: 128\-...]
.br
.I NOTE:
Use \-alang to define the language by name.
.TP
.B \-alang <audio\ stream\ language>
Usable when playing DVD disks. Expects a two\-letter country code(s) as
parameter, and always tries to play back audio streams those language
matches the given code. For example: \-alang hu,en will always try to play
hungarian or if it's non\-existant then english audio streams if there are any.
.TP
.B \-audio\-demuxer <number>
Force audio demuxer type for \-audiofile. 
Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h.
You can use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection!
.TP
.B \-audiofile <filename>
Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or OggVorbis)
.TP
.B \-cdrom\-device <path\ to\ device>
Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom
.TP
.B \-cache <kbytes>
This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/URL.
Especially useful on slow media (default is \-nocache).
.TP

.B \-chapter <chapter\ id>[-<end chapter id>]
Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to
end playing at. Examples can be found below.
.TP
.B \-csslib <filename>
(old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so
.TP
.B \-demuxer <number>
Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h.
.TP
.B \-dumpaudio (MPLAYER only)
Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with mpeg/ac3)
.TP
.B \-dumpfile <filename> (MPLAYER only)
Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together
with \-dumpaudio/\-dumpvideo/\-dumpstream.
.TP
.B \-dumpstream (MPLAYER only)
Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump . Useful for example
when ripping from DVD or network.
.TP
.B \-dumpsub (MPLAYER only)
Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams.
.TP
.B \-dumpvideo (MPLAYER only)
Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable)
.TP
.B \-dvd <title\ id>
Tell MPlayer which movies (marked with titleid) to play. For example
sometimes '1' are trailers, and '2' is the real movie. Sometimes deinterlacing
is required for DVD playback: see '\-pp 0x20000' or '\-npp lb' options too. 
.TP
.B \-dvd\-device <path\ to\ device>
Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd
.TP
.B \-dvdangle <angle\ id>
Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles.
Here you can tell MPlayer which angles to use. Examples can be found below.
.TP

Force rebuilding of INDEX. Useful for files with broken index (desyncs, etc).
Seeking will be possible. You can fix the index permanently with
MEncoder (see the documentation).
.TP
.B \-fps <value>
Override video frame rate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number)
.TP
.B \-frames <number>
Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
.TP
.B \-hr\-mp3\-seek (.MP3 only)
Hi\-res mp3 seeking. Default is: enabled when playing from external MP3 file,
as we need to seek to the very exact position to keep A/V sync. It can be slow
especially when seeking backwards \- it has to rewind to the beginning to find
the exact frame.
.TP
.B \-idx (see \-forceidx option too!)
Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, 
thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incomplete
downloads, or badly created AVIs.
.TP
.B \-mc <seconds/frame>
Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds)
.TP
.B \-mf <option1:option2:...>
Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files.
(see documentation). They are:

    on            turns on multifile support
    w=<value>     width of the output (autodetect)
    h=<value>     height of the output (autodetect)
    fps=<value>   fps of the output (default: 25)

.B \-ni (.AVI only)
Force usage of non\-interleaved AVI parser (fixes playing
of some bad AVI files).
.TP
.B \-nobps (.AVI only)
Don't use avg. byte/sec value for A\-V sync (AVI).
Helps with some AVI files with broken header.
.TP
.B \-skipopening
Skip dvd opening (dvdnav only).
.TP
.B \-sb <byte\ position> (see \-ss option too!)
Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from cdrom 
images / vob files with junk at the beginning.
.TP
.B \-srate <Hz>
Specifies Hz to playback audio on. Has effect on playback speed!
.TP
.B \-ss <time> (see \-sb option too!)
Seek to given time position. For example:

    \-ss 56         seeks to 56 seconds

    on                use TV input
    noaudio           no sound
    driver=<value>    available: dummy, v4l
    device=<value>    specify other device than the default /dev/video0
    input=<value>     available: television, s-video, composite, etc
    freq=<value>      specify the frequency to set the tuner (e.g. 511.250)
    outfmt=<value>    output format of the tuner (rgb32, rgb24, yv12, uyvy, i420)
    width=<value>     the width of the output window
    height=<value>    the height of the output window
    norm=<value>      available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC
    channel=<value>   set the tuner to the given channel
    chanlist=<value>  available: us-bcast, us-cable, europe-west, europe-east, etc
.TP
.B \-vcd <track>
Play video cd track from device instead of plain file
.TP
.B \-vid <id>
Select video channel [MPG: 0\-15  ASF:  0\-255 ]
.TP
.B \-vivo <sub\-options> (DEBUG CODE)
Force audio parameters for the .vivo demuxer (for debugging purposes)


.SH "DECODING/FILTERING OPTIONS"
.TP
.B \-ac <codec name>

    \-ac ac3        use AC3 codec
    \-ac hwac3      enable Hardware AC3 passthrough (see documentation)
    \-ac vorbis     use libvorbis
    \-ac ffmp3      use ffmpeg's MP3 decoder (SLOW)

See '\-ac help' for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-afm <1\-12> (OBSOLETE)
Force usage of a specific audio format. For example:

    \-afm 1         use libmp3 (mp2/mp3, but not mp1)
    \-afm 2         suppose raw PCM audio
    \-afm 3         use libac3
    \-afm 4         use a matching Win32 codec
    \-afm 5         use aLaw/uLaw driver
    \-afm 10        use libvorbis
    \-afm 11        use ffmpeg's MP3 decoder (even mp1)

See \-ac help for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-aspect <ratio>
Override aspect ratio of movies. It's autodetected on MPEG files, but can't be
autodetected on most AVI files. Examples:

    \-aspect 4:3  or \-aspect 1.3333
    \-aspect 16:9 or \-aspect 1.7777
.TP
.B \-flip
Flip image upside-down
.TP
.B \-nosound
Don't play/encode sound
.TP
.B \-npp <option1,option2,...>
This option allows to give more litterate options for postprocessing, 
and is another way of calling it (not with \-pp).
.br
NOTE: -npp only controls the external postprocess filter, and you HAVE TO
load it manually by '-vop pp', it is not auto-loaded!
.br
So, the usage: -vop pp -npp <options>

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-pp 0x2007f' <=> '\-npp hb,vb,dr,al,lb'
    '\-pp 0x7f'    <=> '\-npp hb,vb,dr,al'

You can get a list of options for \-npp by executing
.I mplayer \-npp help
.br
These keywords accept a '\-' prefix to disable the option.

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-npp de,\-al' means 'default filters without brightness/contrast correction'

A ':' followed by a letter may be appended to the option to indicate its 
scope:
    a : automatically switches the filter off if the cpu is too slow
    c : do chrominance filtering too
    y : do not do chrominance filtering (that is only luminance filtering)

Each filter defaults to 'c' (chrominance).

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-npp de,tn:1:2:3' means 'enable default filters & temporal denoiser'
    '\-npp hb:y,vb:a \-autoq 6' means 'deblock horizontal only luminance, and
    automatically switch vertical deblocking on/off depending on available 
    cpu time'
.TP
.B \-pp <quality> (see \-npp option too!)
Apply postprocess filter on decoded image

Value given by -pp is sent to the codec, if the codec has built-in postprocess

    \-pp 0x7f    <=> \-npp hb,vb,dr,al (deblocking filter - for DivX)
.TP
.B \-ssf <mode> (BETA CODE)
Specifies SwScaler parameters. Available options are:

    lgb=[0..100]   gaussian blur filter (luma) 
    cgb=[0..100]   gaussian blur filter (chroma)
    ls=[0..100]    sharpen filter (luma)
    cs=[0..100]    sharpen filter (chroma)
    cvs=x          chroma vertival shifting
    chs=x          chroma horizontal shifting
.TP
.B \-stereo <mode>
Select type of MP2/MP3 stereo output.

    0   fast bilinear (default)
    1   bilinear
    2   bicubic (best quality)
    3   ?
    4   nearest neighbor (bad quality)
    5   area averageing scaling support
.TP
.B \-vc <codec name>
Force usage of a specific video codec, according to its name in codecs.conf,
for example:

    \-vc divx       use VFW DivX codec
    \-vc divxds     use DirectShow DivX codec
    \-vc ffdivx     use libavcodec's DivX codec
    \-vc ffmpeg12   use libavcodec's MPEG1/2 codec
    \-vc divx4      use ProjectMayo's DivX codec

See '\-vc help' for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-vfm <1\-12> (OBSOLETE)
Force usage of a specific codec FAMILY, and FALLBACK to default if failed.

.I NOTE:
Use \-slang to define the subtitle language by name.
.TP
.B \-slang <subtitle\ language>
See the \-sid option, but this one needs a two\-letter parameter, a country code.
Like: \-slang hu,en will always select hungarian or if it's non existant then
english subtitles, if there are any. For the list of available subtitles, use
with the \-v switch and look at the output.
.TP
.B \-sub <subtitle\ file>
Use/display this subtitle file
.TP

Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UNICODE.
.TP
.B \-utf8
Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UTF8.
.TP
.B \-vobsub <vobsub\ file\ without\ extention>
Specify the VobSub files that are to be used for subtitle. This is
the full pathname without extensions, i.e. without the ".idx", ".ifo"
or ".sub".
.TP
.B \-vobsubid <vobsub\ subtitle\ id>

.TP
.B \-abs <value>  (OBSOLETE)
Override audio driver/card buffer size detection, -ao oss only
.TP
.B \-ao <driver>[:<device>]
Select audio output driver and optionaly device. "device" is valid with
SDL too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:esd).
If using OSS, you can specify which sound device to use like this:

    \-ao oss:/dev/dsp1     (replaces the old \-dsp option)

    Stereo         2
    Surround       4
    Full 5.1       6

Currently this option is only honoured for AC3 audio, and/or the surround plugin.
.TP
.B \-delay <secs>
Audio delay in seconds (may be +/\- float value)
.TP
.B \-mixer <device>

.TP
.B \-dr
Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs)
(default is off).
.TP
.B \-fb <device> (FBdev or DirectFB only)
Specifies the framebuffer device to use. By default it uses /dev/fb0.
.TP
.B \-fbmode <modename> (FBdev only)
Change videomode to the one that is labelled as <modename> in /etc/fb.modes.
.br
.I NOTE:
VESA framebuffer doesn't support mode changing.
.TP
.B \-fbmodeconfig <filename> (FBdev only)
Use this config file instead of the default /etc/fb.modes.
Only valid for the fbdev driver.
.TP
.B \-forcexv (SDL only)
Force using XVideo

    OnTop                6
    Dock                 8
    AboveDock            10
    Menu                 12

Defautl is layer Menu (12).
.TP
.B \-jpeg <sub\-options> 
Specify options for the JPEG output (-vo jpeg), separated by ":" (see documentation!).
Available sub\-options are [no]progressiv, [no]baseline, 
optimize, smooth, quality and outdir.
.TP
.B \-monitor_dotclock <dotclock\ (or\ pixelclock) range>  (FBdev only)
Look into etc/example.conf for further information and in DOCS/video.html.
.TP
.B \-monitor_hfreq <horizontal frequency range>  (FBdev only)
.TP
.B \-monitor_vfreq <vertical frequency range>  (FBdev only)
.TP
.B \-monitoraspect <ratio>
Set aspect ratio of your screen. Examples:

    \-monitoraspect 4:3  or 1.3333

.B \-vm
Try to change to a better video mode. dga, x11/xv (XF86VidMode) and sdl
output drivers support it.
.TP
.B \-vo <driver>[:<device>]
Select video output driver and optinally device. "device" is valid with
SDL and GGI too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:aalib).

You can get the list of available drivers executing
.I mplayer \-vo help
.TP

.SH "PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-autoq <quality> (use with -vop pp!)
Dynamically changes the level of postprocess, depending on spare CPU time
available. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you
can use some big number. You may not use together with \-pp but it's ok with
\-npp!
.TP
.B \-benchmark
Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end.
Used in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only video codec.

.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show short summary of options
.TP
.B \-hardframedrop
More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image disortion!
.TP
.B \-input <commands>
This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system.
Relative path are relative to $HOME/.mplayer.

                   If given without pathname,
                   $HOME/.mplayer is assumed.
    ar\-delay       delay in msec before we start
                   to autorepeat a key
                   (0 to disable)
    ar\-rate        how many keypress/second when
                   we autorepeat
    keylist        prints all keys that can be
                   bound to
    cmdlist        prints all commands that can
                   be bound

.TP
.B \-nortc
Turns off usage of /dev/rtc (real-time clock)
.TP
.B \-playlist <file>
Play files according to this filelist (1 file/row or Winamp or ASX format).
.TP
.B \-quiet
Display less output, status messages.
.TP
.B \-skin <skin\ directory> (BETA CODE)

.B \-endpos <time|byte\ position>
Stop encoding at given time or byte position. Can be specified in many ways :

    -endpos 56       encode only 56 seconds
    -endpos 01:10:00 encode only 1 hours
    -endpos 100mb    encode only 100 mbytes

Can be used in conjuction with -ss or -sb!
.br
.I NOTE:
Byte position won't be accurate, as it can only stop at
a frame boundary.
.TP

                   disabled)

  vb_strategy=<value>
                   strategy to choose between
                   I/P/B frames :
                     0 allways use max B
                     1 avoid B frames in high
                       motion / scene change (can
                       lead to filesize miss
                       prediction)
                   default = 0

or remote control (using lirc).
.B See documentation!
.br
.I NOTE:
The default config file for the input system is 
$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf but it can be overrided 
using the -input conf option.
.br
.I NOTE:
These keys may/may not work, depending on your video output driver.
.TP

                Type 0 is a relative seek of +/-
                <value> seconds. Type 1 seek to
                <value> % in the movie.

audio_delay <value>
                Adjust the audio delay of val seconds

quit            Quit MPlayer

pause           Pause/unpause the playback

grap_frames     Somebody know ?

pt_step <value> [force=<value>]
                Go to next/prev entry in playtree. 

pt_up_step <value> [force=<value>]
                Like pt_step but it jump to next/prev 
                in the parent list.

alt_src_step <value>
                When more than one source is available
                it select the next/previous one (only 

brightness <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
hue <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
saturation <value> [abs=<value>]
                Set/Adjust video paramters.
                <value> range from -100 to 100.

frame_drop [type=<value>]
                Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.

.SH "BUGS"
Probably. PLEASE, double-check the documentation (especially bugreports.html),
the FAQ and the mail archive before!

Send your complete bugreports to the MPlayer-users mailing list at
<[e-mail]>. We love complete bugreports :)


.SH "AUTHORS"
Check documentation!

MPlayer is (C) 2000\-2002
.I Arpad Gereoffy <[e-mail]\-users>

This manpage is written and maintained by
.I Gabucino <[e-mail]\-users>.

(Patches done by
.I Jonas Jermann <[e-mail]\-users>
)

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.\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy <[e-mail]-users>
.\" This man page was/is done by Gabucino <[e-mail]-users>
.\" (Patches done by Jonas Jermann <[e-mail]-users>)
.\" 
.TH "MPlayer" "1" "2002-05-13"

.SH "NAME"
mplayer  \- Movie Player for Linux
.br
mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux

.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B mplayer

.B mplayer
is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non\-x86
CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV,
FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many native, XAnim, and
Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV
movies, too (without the avifile library).

Another great feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers.
It works with X11, XV, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use
GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even 
without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon), too!
.br
Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens
DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+!

Nice big antialiased shaded subtitles with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, 
etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts are supported (10 supported subtitle formats: VobSub, MicroDVD,
SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub).

.B mencoder
(MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to
encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET)
to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below).  It encodes to DivX4 
(1, 2 or 3 passes), XviD, codecs of libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. 
It also has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system
(crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) and more.

.B gmplayer
is MPlayer with a graphical user interface.
It has the same options as MPlayer.

.SH GENERAL NOTES
Every "flag" option has a "noflag" counterpart, e.g.  the opposite of the \-fs
option is \-nofs.
.br
.B Check the HTML documentation, too!

.SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS"
.TP
.B \-aid <id>
Select audio channel [MPG: 0\-31 AVI: 1\-99 ASF: 0\-127 VOB: 128\-...]
.br
.I NOTE:
Use \-alang to choose the language.
.TP
.B \-alang <audio\ stream\ language>
Usable when playing DVD disks. Expects a two\-letter country code(s) as
parameter, and always tries to play audio streams whose language matches the
given code. For example: \-alang hu,en will play Hungarian and fall back to
English if Hungarian is not available, provided that English audio exists.
.TP
.B \-audio\-demuxer <number>
Force audio demuxer type for \-audiofile. 
Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h.
Use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection.
.TP
.B \-audiofile <filename>
Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis).
.TP
.B \-cdrom\-device <path\ to\ device>
Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom.
.TP
.B \-cache <kbytes>
This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/URL.
Especially useful on slow media (default is \-nocache).
.TP

.B \-chapter <chapter\ id>[-<end chapter id>]
Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to
end playing at. Examples can be found below.
.TP
.B \-csslib <filename>
(old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so.
.TP
.B \-demuxer <number>
Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h.
.TP
.B \-dumpaudio (MPLAYER only)
Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with mpeg/ac3).
.TP
.B \-dumpfile <filename> (MPLAYER only)
Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together
with \-dumpaudio/\-dumpvideo/\-dumpstream.
.TP
.B \-dumpstream (MPLAYER only)
Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump. Useful for example
when ripping from DVD or network.
.TP
.B \-dumpsub (MPLAYER only)
Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams.
.TP
.B \-dumpvideo (MPLAYER only)
Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable).
.TP
.B \-dvd <title\ id>
Tell MPlayer which movies (specified by title id) to play. For example
sometimes '1' is a trailer, and '2' is the real movie. Sometimes deinterlacing
is required for DVD playback: see '\-pp 0x20000' or '\-npp lb' options, too. 
.TP
.B \-dvd\-device <path\ to\ device>
Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd.
.TP
.B \-dvdangle <angle\ id>
Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles.
Here you can tell MPlayer which angles to use. Examples can be found below.
.TP

Force rebuilding of INDEX. Useful for files with broken index (desyncs, etc).
Seeking will be possible. You can fix the index permanently with
MEncoder (see the documentation).
.TP
.B \-fps <value>
Override video framerate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number).
.TP
.B \-frames <number>
Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
.TP
.B \-hr\-mp3\-seek (.MP3 only)
Hi\-res mp3 seeking. Default is: enabled when playing from external MP3 file,
as we need to seek to the very exact position to keep A/V sync. It can be slow
especially when seeking backwards \- it has to rewind to the beginning to find
the exact frame.
.TP .B \-idx (also see \-forceidx)
Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, 
thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incomplete
downloads, or badly created AVIs.
.TP
.B \-mc <seconds/frame>
Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds)
.TP
.B \-mf <option1:option2:...>
Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files
(see documentation). The options are:

    on            turns on multifile support
    w=<value>     width of the output (autodetect)
    h=<value>     height of the output (autodetect)
    fps=<value>   fps of the output (default: 25)

.B \-ni (.AVI only)
Force usage of non\-interleaved AVI parser (fixes playing
of some bad AVI files).
.TP
.B \-nobps (.AVI only)
Do not use average byte/sec value for A\-V sync (AVI).
Helps with some AVI files with broken header.
.TP
.B \-skipopening
Skip DVD opening (dvdnav only).
.TP
.B \-sb <byte\ position> (see \-ss option too!)
Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CDROM
images / vob files with junk at the beginning.
.TP
.B \-srate <Hz>
Specifies Hz to playback audio on. Affects playback speed!
.TP
.B \-ss <time> (see \-sb option too!)
Seek to given time position. For example:

    \-ss 56         seeks to 56 seconds

    on                use TV input
    noaudio           no sound
    driver=<value>    available: dummy, v4l
    device=<value>    specify other device than the default /dev/video0
    input=<value>     available: television, s-video, composite, etc
    freq=<value>      specify the frequency to set the tuner to (e.g. 511.250)
    outfmt=<value>    output format of the tuner (rgb32, rgb24, yv12, uyvy, i420)
    width=<value>     width of the output window
    height=<value>    height of the output window
    norm=<value>      available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC
    channel=<value>   set the tuner to the given channel
    chanlist=<value>  available: us-bcast, us-cable, europe-west, europe-east, etc
.TP
.B \-vcd <track>
Play video CD track from device instead of plain file.
.TP
.B \-vid <id>
Select video channel [MPG: 0\-15  ASF:  0\-255].
.TP
.B \-vivo <sub\-options> (DEBUG CODE)
Force audio parameters for the .vivo demuxer (for debugging purposes).


.SH "DECODING/FILTERING OPTIONS"
.TP
.B \-ac <codec name>

    \-ac ac3        use AC3 codec
    \-ac hwac3      enable Hardware AC3 passthrough (see documentation)
    \-ac vorbis     use libvorbis
    \-ac ffmp3      use ffmpeg's MP3 decoder (SLOW)

See \-ac help for a full list of available codecs.
.TP
.B \-afm <1\-12> (OBSOLETE)
Force usage of a specific audio format family. For example:

    \-afm 1         use libmp3 (mp2/mp3, but not mp1)
    \-afm 2         suppose raw PCM audio
    \-afm 3         use libac3
    \-afm 4         use a matching Win32 codec
    \-afm 5         use aLaw/uLaw driver
    \-afm 10        use libvorbis
    \-afm 11        use ffmpeg's MP3 decoder (even mp1)

See \-afm help for a full list of available format families.
.TP
.B \-aspect <ratio>
Override aspect ratio of movies. It's autodetected on MPEG files, but can't be
autodetected on most AVI files. Examples:

    \-aspect 4:3  or \-aspect 1.3333
    \-aspect 16:9 or \-aspect 1.7777
.TP
.B \-flip
Flip image upside-down.
.TP
.B \-nosound
Do not play/encode sound.
.TP
.B \-npp <option1,option2,...>
This option allows giving more literate postprocessing options, 
and is another way of calling it (not with \-pp).
.br
NOTE: -npp only controls the external postprocess filter, and you HAVE TO
load it manually by '-vop pp', it is not auto-loaded!
.br
Usage: -vop pp -npp <options>

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-pp 0x2007f' <=> '\-npp hb,vb,dr,al,lb'
    '\-pp 0x7f'    <=> '\-npp hb,vb,dr,al'

See \-npp help for a full list of available options.
.br
These keywords accept a '\-' prefix to disable the option.

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-npp de,\-al' means 'default filters without brightness/contrast correction'

A ':' followed by a letter may be appended to the option to indicate its 
scope:
    a : Automatically switches the filter off if the CPU is too slow.
    c : Do chrominance filtering, too.
    y : Do not do chrominance filtering (only luminance filtering).

Each filter defaults to 'c' (chrominance).

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-npp de,tn:1:2:3' means 'enable default filters & temporal denoiser'
    '\-npp hb:y,vb:a \-autoq 6' means 'deblock horizontal only luminance, and
    automatically switch vertical deblocking on/off depending on available 
    CPU time'
.TP
.B \-pp <quality> (see \-npp option too!)
Apply postprocess filter on decoded image

Value given by -pp is sent to the codec, if the codec has built-in postprocess

    \-pp 0x7f    <=> \-npp hb,vb,dr,al (deblocking filter - for DivX)
.TP
.B \-ssf <mode> (BETA CODE)
Specifies SwScaler parameters. Available options are:

    lgb=[0..100]   Gaussian blur filter (luma) 
    cgb=[0..100]   Gaussian blur filter (chroma)
    ls=[0..100]    sharpen filter (luma)
    cs=[0..100]    sharpen filter (chroma)
    cvs=x          chroma vertical shifting
    chs=x          chroma horizontal shifting
.TP
.B \-stereo <mode>
Select type of MP2/MP3 stereo output.

    0   fast bilinear (default)
    1   bilinear
    2   bicubic (best quality)
    3   ?
    4   nearest neighbor (bad quality)
    5   area averaging scaling support
.TP
.B \-vc <codec name>
Force usage of a specific video codec, according to its name in codecs.conf,
for example:

    \-vc divx       use VFW DivX codec
    \-vc divxds     use DirectShow DivX codec
    \-vc ffdivx     use libavcodec's DivX codec
    \-vc ffmpeg12   use libavcodec's MPEG1/2 codec
    \-vc divx4      use Project Mayo's DivX codec

See '\-vc help' for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-vfm <1\-12> (OBSOLETE)
Force usage of a specific codec FAMILY, and FALLBACK to default if failed.

.I NOTE:
Use \-slang to define the subtitle language by name.
.TP
.B \-slang <subtitle\ language>
See the \-sid option, but this one needs a two\-letter parameter, a country code.
Like: \-slang hu,en will always select Hungarian or if it is non existent then
English subtitles, if there are any. For the list of available subtitles, use
with the \-v switch and look at the output.
.TP
.B \-sub <subtitle\ file>
Use/display this subtitle file
.TP

Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UNICODE.
.TP
.B \-utf8
Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UTF8.
.TP
.B \-vobsub <vobsub\ file\ without\ extension>
Specify the VobSub files that are to be used for subtitle. This is
the full pathname without extensions, i.e. without the ".idx", ".ifo"
or ".sub".
.TP
.B \-vobsubid <vobsub\ subtitle\ id>

.TP
.B \-abs <value>  (OBSOLETE)
Override audio driver/card buffer size detection, -ao oss only
.TP
.B \-ao <driver>[:<device>]
Select audio output driver and optionally device. "device" is valid with
SDL too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:esd).
If using OSS, you can specify which sound device to use like this:

    \-ao oss:/dev/dsp1     (replaces the old \-dsp option)

    Stereo         2
    Surround       4
    Full 5.1       6

Currently this option is only honored for AC3 audio, and/or the surround plugin.
.TP
.B \-delay <secs>
Audio delay in seconds (may be +/\- float value)
.TP
.B \-mixer <device>

.TP
.B \-dr
Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs)
(default is off).
.TP
.B \-fb <device> (fbdev or DirectFB only)
Specifies the framebuffer device to use. By default it uses /dev/fb0.
.TP
.B \-fbmode <modename> (fbdev only)
Change video mode to the one that is labelled as <modename> in /etc/fb.modes.
.br
.I NOTE:
VESA framebuffer doesn't support mode changing.
.TP
.B \-fbmodeconfig <filename> (fbdev only)
Use this config file instead of the default /etc/fb.modes.
Only valid for the fbdev driver.
.TP
.B \-forcexv (SDL only)
Force using XVideo

    OnTop                6
    Dock                 8
    AboveDock            10
    Menu                 12

Default is layer Menu (12).
.TP
.B \-jpeg <sub\-options> 
Specify options for the JPEG output (-vo jpeg), separated by ":" (see documentation!).
Available sub\-options are [no]progressiv, [no]baseline, 
optimize, smooth, quality and outdir.
.TP
.B \-monitor_dotclock <dotclock\ (or\ pixelclock) range>  (fbdev only)
Look into etc/example.conf for further information and in DOCS/video.html.
.TP
.B \-monitor_hfreq <horizontal frequency range>  (fbdev only)
.TP
.B \-monitor_vfreq <vertical frequency range>  (fbdev only)
.TP
.B \-monitoraspect <ratio>
Set aspect ratio of your screen. Examples:

    \-monitoraspect 4:3  or 1.3333

.B \-vm
Try to change to a better video mode. dga, x11/xv (XF86VidMode) and sdl
output drivers support it.
.TP
.B \-vo <driver>[:<device>]
Select video output driver and optionally device. "device" is valid with
SDL and GGI too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:aalib).

You can get the list of available drivers executing
.I mplayer \-vo help
.TP

.SH "PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-autoq <quality> (use with -vop pp!)
Dynamically changes the level of postprocess, depending on spare CPU time
available. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you
can use some big number. You may not use it together with \-pp but it is OK with
\-npp!
.TP
.B \-benchmark
Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end.
Used in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only video codec.

.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show short summary of options
.TP
.B \-hardframedrop
More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image distortion!
.TP
.B \-input <commands>
This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system.
Relative path are relative to $HOME/.mplayer.

                   If given without pathname,
                   $HOME/.mplayer is assumed.
    ar\-delay       delay in msec before we start
                   to autorepeat a key
                   (0 to disable)
    ar\-rate        how many key presses/second when
                   we autorepeat
    keylist        prints all keys that can be
                   bound to
    cmdlist        prints all commands that can
                   be bound

.TP
.B \-nortc
Turns off usage of /dev/rtc (real-time clock)
.TP
.B \-playlist <file>
Play files according to this file list (1 file/row or Winamp or asx format).
.TP
.B \-quiet
Display less output, status messages.
.TP
.B \-skin <skin\ directory> (BETA CODE)

.B \-endpos <time|byte\ position>
Stop encoding at given time or byte position. Can be specified in many ways :

    -endpos 56       encode only 56 seconds
    -endpos 01:10:00 encode only 1 hours
    -endpos 100mb    encode only 100 MBytes

Can be used in conjunction with -ss or -sb!
.br
.I NOTE:
Byte position won't be accurate, as it can only stop at
a frame boundary.
.TP

                   disabled)

  vb_strategy=<value>
                   strategy to choose between
                   I/P/B frames :
                     0 always use max B
                     1 avoid B frames in high
                       motion / scene change (can
                       lead to filesize miss
                       prediction)
                   default = 0

or remote control (using lirc).
.B See documentation!
.br
.I NOTE:
The default config file for the input system is 
$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf but it can be overriden 
using the -input conf option.
.br
.I NOTE:
These keys may/may not work, depending on your video output driver.
.TP

                Type 0 is a relative seek of +/-
                <value> seconds. Type 1 seek to
                <value> % in the movie.

audio_delay <value>
                Adjust the audio delay of value seconds

quit            Quit MPlayer

pause           Pause/unpause the playback

grap_frames     Somebody know ?

pt_step <value> [force=<value>]
                Go to next/previous entry in the playtree. 

pt_up_step <value> [force=<value>]
                Like pt_step but it jumps to next/previous 
                in the parent list.

alt_src_step <value>
                When more than one source is available
                it select the next/previous one (only 

brightness <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
hue <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
saturation <value> [abs=<value>]
                Set/Adjust video parameters.
                <value> range from -100 to 100.

frame_drop [type=<value>]
                Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.

.SH "BUGS"
Probably. PLEASE, double-check the documentation (especially bugreports.html),
the FAQ and the mail archive before!

Send your complete bug reports to the MPlayer-users mailing list at
<[e-mail]>. We love complete bug reports :)


.SH "AUTHORS"
Check documentation!

MPlayer is (C) 2000\-2002
.I Arpad Gereoffy <[e-mail]\-users>

This man page is written and maintained by
.I Gabucino <[e-mail]\-users>.

(Patches done by
.I Jonas Jermann <[e-mail]\-users>
)