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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- $Revision$ --> <bookinfo id="toc"> <title><application>MPlayer</application> - The Movie Player</title> <subtitle><ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu"></ulink></subtitle> <date>March 24, 2003</date> <copyright> <year>2000</year> <year>2001</year> <year>2002</year> <year>2003</year> <year>2004</year> <year>2005</year> <year>2006</year> <year>2007</year> <holder>MPlayer team</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> <title>License</title> <para>MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</para> <para>MPlayer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</para> <para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with MPlayer; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.</para> </legalnotice> </bookinfo> <preface id="howtoread"> <title>How to read this documentation</title> <para> If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If you have any other questions, return to the <link linkend="toc">Table of Contents</link> and search for the topic, read the <xref linkend="faq"/>, or try grepping through the files. Most questions should be answered somewhere here and the rest has probably already been asked on our <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/mailing_lists.html">mailing lists</ulink>. <!-- FIXME: This refers to nonexistent links Check the <ulink url="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi">archives</ulink>, there is a lot of valuable information to be found there. --> </para> </preface> <chapter id="intro"> <title>Introduction</title> <para> <application>MPlayer</application> is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and <emphasis role="bold">non-x86</emphasis> CPUs, see <xref linkend="ports"/>). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <emphasis role="bold">VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora</emphasis>, and <emphasis role="bold">MPEG-4 (DivX)</emphasis> movies too. Another big feature of <application>MPlayer</application> is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, libcaca, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. <application>MPlayer</application> supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the <link linkend="dvb">DVB</link> and <link linkend="dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</link>. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<emphasis role="bold">14 supported types</emphasis>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)? </para> <para> The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <option>-idx</option> option, or permanently with <application>MEncoder</application>, thus enabling seeking! As you see, stability and quality are the most important things, but the speed is also amazing. There is also a powerful filter system for video and audio manipulation. </para> <para> <application>MEncoder</application> (<application>MPlayer</application>'s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode <application>MPlayer</application>-playable movies (<emphasis role="bold">AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</emphasis>) to other <application>MPlayer</application>-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like <emphasis role="bold">MPEG-4 (DivX4)</emphasis> (one or two passes), <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>, <emphasis role="bold">PCM/MP3/VBR MP3</emphasis> audio. </para> <itemizedlist> <title><application>MEncoder</application> features</title> <listitem><para> Encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of <application>MPlayer</application> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Encoding to all the codecs of FFmpeg's <link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Video encoding from <emphasis role="bold">V4L compatible TV tuners</emphasis> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Creating files from external audio stream </para></listitem> <listitem><para> 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">VBR</emphasis> MP3 audio <important><para> VBR MP3 audio doesn't always play nicely on windows players! </para></important> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> PCM audio </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Stream copying </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with <option>-mc 0</option> option) </para></listitem> <listitem><para> fps correction with <option>-ofps</option> option (useful when encoding 30000/1001 fps VOB to 24000/1001 fps AVI) </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Using our very powerful filter system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Can encode DVD/VOBsub <emphasis role="bold">AND</emphasis> text subtitles into the output file </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Can rip DVD subtitles to VOBsub format </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <!-- FIXME: the license should be in bookinfo --> <para> <application>MPlayer</application> and <application>MEncoder</application> can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. </para> </chapter> &install.xml; &usage.xml; &cd-dvd.xml; &faq.xml; &containers.xml; &codecs.xml; &video.xml; &audio.xml; &tvinput.xml; &radio.xml; &ports.xml; &mencoder.xml; &encoding-guide.xml; &bugreports.xml; &bugs.xml; &skin.xml; &history.xml;