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.\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy <sendmail@to.mplayer-users> .\" This man page was/is done by Gabucino <sendmail@to.mplayer-users> .\" (Patches done by Jonas Jermann <sendmail@to.mplayer-users>) .\" .TH "MPlayer" "1" "2002-06-24" .SH "NAME" mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux .br mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux .SH "SYNOPSIS" .B mplayer .RB [options]\ [\fIfile\fP\ |\ \fIURL\fP\ |\ \fIplaylist\fP\ |\ \-\ ] .br .B mplayer .RB [global\ options]\ \fIfile1\fP\ [specific\ options]\ [file2]\ [specific\ options] .br .B mplayer .RB [global\ options]\ {\fIgroup\ of\ files\ and\ options\fP}\ [group\ specific\ options] .br .B mplayer .RB [dvd|vcd|cdda|cddb|tv]://[title]\ [options] .br .B mplayer .RB [mms|mmst|http|http_proxy|rtp]://[user:pass@]URL[:port]\ [options] .br .B mencoder .RB [options]\ [\fIfile\fP\ |\ \fIURL\fP\ |\ \-\ ]\ [\-o\ file] .br .B gmplayer .RB [options]\ [\-skin\ skin] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .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/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, 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 ATI), 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+! MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 9 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VobSub and Closed Captions) are supported. .B mencoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (see above) 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, add/remove noise, rgb/yuv conversion) and more. .B gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface. It has the same options as MPlayer. .SH GENERAL NOTES .B Check the HTML documentation, too! .br Every "flag" option has a "noflag" counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the \-fs option is \-nofs. .br You can put all of the options in a config file which will be read every time .B mplayer is run. The system-wide config file is '/etc/mplayer.conf', the user specific one is '~/.mplayer/config'. User specific options override system-wide options and options given on the command line override either. The syntax of the config files is 'option=<value>', everything after a '#' is considered a comment. Options that work without values can be enabled by setting them to 'yes' or '1' and disabled by setting them to 'no' or '0'. .I EXAMPLE .br # Use Matrox driver by default. .br vo=xmga .br # I love practicing handstands while watching videos. .br flip=yes .SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS" .TP .B \-aid <id> (also see \-alang option) Select audio channel [MPG: 0\-31 AVI: 1\-99 ASF: 0\-127 VOB: 128\-...] .TP .B \-alang <two letter\ country\ code> (also see \-aid option) Works only for DVD playback! Selects DVD audio language. It always tries to play audio streams whose language matches the given code. .I EXAMPLE: \-alang hu,en Plays Hungarian and falls back to English if Hungarian is not available. .TP .B \-audio\-demuxer <number> (\-audiofile only) 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 \-cdda <option1:option2> This option can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of MPlayer. Available options are: speed=<value> set CD spin speed paranoia=<value> set paranoia level (0-2) 0: disable checking 1: overlap checking only (default) 2: full data correction and verification generic-dev=<value> use specified generic SCSI device sector-size=<value> atomic read size overlap=<value> force minimum overlap search during verification to <value> sectors. toc-bias Assume that the beginning offset of track 1 as reported in the TOC will be addressed as LBA 0. Some Toshiba drives need this for getting track boundaries correct. toc-offset=<value> Add <value> sectors to the values reported when addressing tracks. May be negative. (no)skip (never) accept imperfect data reconstruction. .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. Use \-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. .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 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. .br .I NOTE: Sometimes deinterlacing is required for DVD playback, see the \-pp 0x20000 or \-npp lb options. .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 .B \-dvdauth <DVD\ device> (old-style DVD option) Turns on DVD authentication using the given device. .TP .B \-dvdkey <CSS\ key> (old-style DVD option) When decoding a VOB file copied undecrypted from DVD, this option gives the CSS key needed to decrypt the VOB (the key is printed when authenticating with the DVD drive using \-dvdauth). .TP .B \-dvdnav (BETA CODE) Force usage of libdvdnav. .TP .B \-forceidx 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). Available 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) type=<value> type of input files (available types: jpeg, png) .TP .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 \-passwd <password> (see \-user option too!) Specify password for http authentication. .TP .B \-rawaudio <option1:option2:...> This option lets you play raw audio files. It may also be used to play audio CDs which are not 44KHz 16Bit stereo. Available options are: on use raw audio demuxer channels=<value> number of channels rate=<value> rate in samples per second samplesize=<value> sample size in byte format=<value> fourcc in hex .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> Forces the given audio playback rate, changing video speed to keep a-v sync. MEncoder passes this value to lame for resampling. .TP .B \-ss <time> (see \-sb option too!) Seek to given time position. .I EXAMPLE: \-ss 56 seeks to 56 seconds \-ss 01:10:00 seeks to 1 hour 10 min .TP .B \-tv <option1:option2:...> This option enables the TV grabbing feature of MPlayer (see documentation). Available options are: on use TV input noaudio no sound driver=<value> available: dummy, v4l, bsdbt848 device=<value> Specify other device than the default /dev/video0. input=<value> Specify other input than the default 0 (Television) (see output for a list) freq=<value> Specify the frequency to set the tuner to (e.g. 511.250). outfmt=<value> output format of the tuner (yv12, rgb32, rgb24, rgb16, rgb15, uyvy, yuy2, i420) width=<value> width of the output window height=<value> height of the output window norm=<value> available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC channel=<value> Set tuner to <value> channel. chanlist=<value> available: europe-east, europe-west, us-bcast, us-cable, 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> Force usage of a specific audio codec, according to its name in codecs.conf. .I EXAMPLE: \-ac mp3 use libmp3 MP3 codec \-ac mp3acm use l3codeca.acm MP3 codec \-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. .I 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) .TP .B \-aspect <ratio> Override aspect ratio of movies. It's autodetected on MPEG files, but can't be autodetected on most AVI files. .I EXAMPLE: \-aspect 4:3 or \-aspect 1.3333 \-aspect 16:9 or \-aspect 1.7777 .TP .B \-flip Flip image upside-down. .TP .B \-lavdopts <option1:option2:...> (DEBUG CODE) If decoding with a codec from libavcodec, you can specify its parameters here. .I EXAMPLE: \-lavdopts bug=1 Available options are: ver=<value> error resilience: -1 needed for some very broken encoders 0 default 1 more aggressive error detection bug=<value> manual workaround encoder bugs: 0 default 1 workaround for some old lavc generated msmpeg4v3 files .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). See \-npp help for a full list of available options. The keywords accept a '\-' prefix to disable the option. .br 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). .br Each filter defaults to 'c' (chrominance). .br .I NOTE: -npp only controls the external postprocess filter, and you HAVE TO load it manually by -vop pp (Usage: -vop pp -npp <options>), it is not auto-loaded! .I EXAMPLE: \-npp hb,vb,dr,al,lb same as \-pp 0x2007f \-npp hb,vb,dr,al same as \-pp 0x7f \-npp de,\-al default filters without brightness/contrast correction \-npp de,tn:1:2:3 Enable default filters & temporal denoiser. \-npp hb:y,vb:a \-autoq 6 Deblock horizontal only luminance and switch vertical deblocking on or off automatically 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 filter (newer win32 DShow DLLs, divx4linux) otherwise the external postprocess filter plugin (-vop pp) is auto-loaded and used. Note, that you can use the built-in and external pp at the same time, use -pp to set internal pp, and -vop pp=value to set up the external! The valid range of -pp value for built-in pp filters vary on codecs, mostly 0-6, where 0=disable 6=slowest/best. For the external pp filter, this is the numerical mode to use postprocessing. The '\-npp' option described above has the same effects but with letters. To have several filters at the same time, simply add the hexadecimal values. .I EXAMPLE: The following values are known to give good results: \-pp 0x20000 (\-npp lb) deinterlacing (for DVD/MPEG2 playback e.g.) \-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 .I EXAMPLE \-vop scale -ssf lgb=3.0 .TP .B \-stereo <mode> Select type of MP2/MP3 stereo output. Stereo 0 Left channel 1 Right channel 2 .TP .B \-sws <software\ scaler\ type> .I NOTE: Also see DOCS/tech/swscaler_*.txt. .br This option sets the quality (and speed, respectively) of the software scaler, with the \-zoom option. For example with x11 or other outputs which lack hardware acceleration. Possible settings are: 0 fast bilinear (default) 1 bilinear 2 bicubic (good quality) 3 experimental (?) 4 nearest neighbour (bad quality) 5 area 6 luma bicubic / chroma bilinear 7 gauss 8 sincR 9 lanczos 10 bicubic spline .TP .B \-vc <codec name> Force usage of a specific video codec, according to its name in codecs.conf, .I 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 EXAMPLE: \-vfm 2 use VFW (Win32) codecs \-vfm 3 use OpenDivX/DivX4 codec (YV12) (same as \-vc odivx but fallback) \-vfm 4 use DirectShow (Win32) codecs \-vfm 5 use libavcodec codecs \-vfm 7 use DivX4 codec (YUY2) (same as \-vc divx4 but fallback) \-vfm 10 use XAnim codecs .I NOTE: If libdivxdecore support was compiled in, then type 3 and 7 now contains just the same DivX4 codec, but different APIs to reach it. For difference between them and when to use which, check the DivX4 section in the documentation. .TP .B \-vop <plugin3[=options],plugin2,plugin1,...> Activate comma separated list of video filters (see documentation). Available plugins are: crop[=w:h:x:y] cropping rectangle[=w:h:x:y] shows cropping boundaries expand[=w:h:x:y:o] expanding and OSD flip vertical mirroring mirror horizontal mirroring rotate[=<0-3>] rotate image +- 90 degrees scale[=w:h] software scaling yuy2 YV12/I420 \-> YUY2 rgb2bgr[=swap] RGB 24/32 <\-> BGR 24/32 palette RGB/BGR 8 \-> 15/16/24/32bpp format[=fourcc] restrict colorspace pp[=flags] postprocessing (see \-pp) lavc[=quality:fps] YV12\->MPEG1 (libavcodec) fame YV12\->MPEG1 (libfame) dvbscale[=aspect] optimal scaling for DVB cards (aspect= DVB_HEIGHT*ASPECTRATIO) cropdetect[=limit] black border detection (print crop values) noise[=luma[u][t|a][h][p]:chroma[u][t|a][h][p] add noise <0-100> luma noise <0-100> chroma noise u uniform noise t temporal noise a averaged temporal noise h high quality p mix with pattern .I parameters: .br w,h destination width/height value w/h = value \-1 w/h = original (default) 0 w/h = scaled (aspect) w/h \-value w/h = original+value x,y x/y position of the subimage value x/y = value \-1 x/y = center image (default) o enable/disable OSD/SUB rendering 0 disabled (default) 1 enabled You can get the list of available plugins executing .I mplayer \-vop help .TP .B \-x <x> (MPLAYER only) Scale image to x width (if sw/hw scaling available). Disables aspect calcs. .TP .B \-xvidopts <option> Specify additional parameters when decoding with XviD. dr2 Activate direct rendering method 2. nodr2 Deactivate direct rendering method 2. .TP .B \-xy <x> x<=8 Scale image by factor <x>. x>8 Set width to <x> and calculate height to keep correct aspect ratio. .TP .B \-y <y> (MPLAYER only) Scale image to y height (if sw/hw scaling available). Disables aspect calcs. .TP .B \-zoom Allow software scaling, where available. Could be used to force scaling with -vop scale .br .I NOTE: \-vop scale will IGNORE options -x/-y/-xy/-fs/-aspect without -zoom. .SH "OSD/SUB OPTIONS" .I NOTE: See -vop expand too. .TP .B \-dumpmpsub (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the \-sub switch) to MPlayer's subtitle format, MPsub. Creates a dump.mpsub file in the current directory. .TP .B \-dumpsrtsub (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the \-sub switch) to the time-based SubViewer (SRT) subtitle format. Creates a dumpsub.srt file in current directory. .TP .B \-ifo <vobsub\ ifo\ file> Indicate the file that will be used to load palette and frame size for VOBSUB subtitles. .TP .B \-ffactor <number> Resample alphamap of the font. Can be: 0 plain white fonts 0.75 very narrow black outline [default] 1 narrow black outline 10 bold black outline .TP .B \-font <path\ to\ font.desc\ file> Search for the OSD/SUB fonts in an alternative directory (default: ~/.mplayer/font/font.desc). .I EXAMPLE: \-font ~/.mplayer/arial\-14/font.desc .TP .B \-noautosub Turns off automatic subtitles. .TP .B \-osdlevel <0\-2> (MPLAYER only) Specifies which mode the OSD should start in (0: none, 1: seek, 2: seek+timer, default is 1). .TP .B \-sid <id> (also see -slang option) Turns on DVD subtitle displaying. Also, you MUST specify a number which corresponds to a DVD subtitle language (0\-31). For the list of available subtitles, use with the \-v switch and look at the output. .TP .B \-slang <two\ letter\ country\ code> (also see \-sid option) Works only for DVD playback! Turns on/selects DVD subtitle language. For the list of available subtitles, use with the \-v switch and look at the output. .I EXAMPLE: \-slang hu,en Selects Hungarian and falls back to English if Hungarian is not available. .TP .B \-sub <subtitle\ file> Use/display this subtitle file. .TP .B \-subcp <codepage> If your system supports iconv(3), you can use this option to specify codepage of the subtitle. .I EXAMPLE: \-subcp latin2 \-subcp cp1250 .TP .B \-sub\-demuxer <number> (BETA CODE) Force subtitle demuxer type for \-subfile. .TP .B \-subdelay <sec> Delays subtitles by <sec> seconds. Can be negative. .TP .B \-subfps <rate> Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number), default: the same fps as the movie. .br .I NOTE: ONLY for frame\-based SUB files, i.e. NOT MicroDVD format! .TP .B \-subfile <filename> (BETA CODE) Currently useless. Same as \-audiofile, but for subtitle streams (OggDS?). .TP .B \-subpos <0\-100> (useful with -vop expand) Specify the position of subtitles on the screen. The value is the vertical position of the subtitle in % of the screen height. .TP .B \-unicode 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 <0-31> Specify the VobSub subtitle id. Valid values range from 0 to 31. .SH "AUDIO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)" .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 subdriver then. .I EXAMPLE \-ao oss:/dev/dsp1 specifies the sound device to use with OSS (replaces the old \-dsp option) \-ao sdl:esd specifies the SDL subdriver You can get the list of available drivers executing .I mplayer \-ao help .TP .B \-aofile <filename> Filename for \-ao pcm. .TP .B \-aop <plugin1:plugin2:...> Specify audio plugin(s) and their options (see documentation!!). Available options are: list=[plugins] comma separated list of plugins (resample, format, surround, format, volume, extrastereo, volnorm) delay=<sec> example plugin, do not use! format=<format> output format (format plugin only) fout=<Hz> output frequency (resample plugin only) volume=<0-255> volume (volume plugin only) mul=<value> stereo coefficient, defaults to 2.5 (extrastereo plugin only) softclip compressor/"soft\-clipping" capabilities (volume plugin only) .TP .B \-channels <number> Select number of audio output channels to be used 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 <sec> Audio delay in seconds (may be +/\- float value). .TP .B \-mixer <device> This option will tell MPlayer to use a different device for mixing than /dev/mixer. .TP .B \-nowaveheader (-ao pcm only) Don't include wave header. Used for RAW PCM. .SH "VIDEO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)" .TP .B \-aa* Used for \-vo aa. You can get a list and an explanation of available options executing .I mplayer \-aahelp .TP .B \-blue_intensity <\-1000\ \-\ 1000> Adjust intensity of blue component of video signal (default 0). .TP .B \-bpp <depth> Use different color depth than autodetect. Not all \-vo drivers support it (fbdev, dga2, svga, vesa). .TP .B \-brightness <\-100\ \-\ 100> Adjust brightness of video output (default 0). It changes intensity of RGB components of video signal from black to white screen. .TP .B \-contrast <\-100\ \-\ 100> Adjust contrast of video output (default 0). Works in similar manner as brightness. .TP .B \-display <name> Specify the hostname and display number of the X server you want to display on. .I EXAMPLE: \-display xtest.localdomain:0 .TP .B \-double Enables doublebuffering. Fixes flicker by storing two frames in memory, and displaying one while decoding another. Can effect OSD. Needs twice the memory than a single buffer, so it won't work on cards with very few video memory. .TP .B \-dr Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs) (default is off). .TP .B \-dxr2 <option1:option2:...> This option is used to control the dxr2 driver. overlay enable the overlay overlay-ratio tune the overlay ucode=<value> path to the microcode norm=<value> TV norm ar-mode=<value> aspect ratio mode macrovision=<value> macrovision mode 75ire enable 7.5 IRE bw b/w TV output color color TV output interlaced interlaced TV output square/ccir601-pixel TV pixel mode iec958-encoded/decoded iec958 output mode mute mute sound output ignore-cache do not use VGA cache update-cache recreate VGA cache .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. .TP .B \-fs Fullscreen playing (centers movie, and makes black bands around it). Toggle it with the 'f' key (not all video outputs support it). .TP .B \-fsmode-dontuse <0-31> (OBSOLETE) (use -fs option) Try this option if you still experience fullscreen problems. .TP .B \-green_intensity <\-1000\ \-\ 1000> Adjust intensity of green component of video signal (default 0). .TP .B \-hue <\-100\ \-\ 100> Adjust hue of video signal (default 0). You can get colored negative of image with this option. .TP .B \-icelayer <0\-15> (icewm only) Sets the layer of the fullscreen window of mplayer for icewm. Desktop 0 Below 2 Normal 4 OnTop 6 Dock 8 AboveDock 10 Menu 12 Default is layer Menu (12). .TP .B \-jpeg <option1:option2:...> (\-vo jpeg only) Specify options for the JPEG output (see documentation). Available 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. .I EXAMPLE: \-monitoraspect 4:3 or 1.3333 \-monitoraspect 16:9 or 1.7777 .TP .B \-noslices Disable drawing video by 16-pixel height slices/bands, instead draws the while frame in a single run. May be faster or slower, depending on card/cache. It has effect only with libmpeg2 and libavcodec codecs. .TP .B \-panscan <range> Enables Pan & Scan functionality, i.e. in order to display a 16:9 movie on a 4:3 display, the sides of the movie are cropped to get a 4:3 image which fits the screen. This function works only with xv, xmga and xvidix drivers. The range varies between 0.0 and 1.0 and controls how much of the image is cropped. .TP .B \-red_intensity <\-1000\ \-\ 1000> Adjust intensity of red component of video signal (default 0). .TP .B \-saturation <\-100\ \-\ 100> Adjust saturation of video output (default 0). You can get grayscale output with this option. .TP .B \-rootwin Play movie in the root window (desktop background) instead of opening a new one. Works only with x11, xv, xmga and xvidix drivers. .TP .B \-screenw <pixels> \-screenh <pixels> If you use an output driver which can't know the resolution of the screen (fbdev/x11 and/or TVout) this is where you can specify the horizontal and vertical resolution. .TP .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 subdriver then. .I EXAMPLE: \-vo xmga \-vo sdl:aalib You can get the list of available drivers executing .I mplayer \-vo help .TP .B \-vsync Enables VBI for vesa. .TP .B \-wid <window\ id> This tells MPlayer to use a X11 window, which is useful to embed MPlayer in a browser (with the plugger extension for instance). .TP .B \-xineramascreen <screen\ number> In Xinerama configurations (i.e. a single desktop that spans across multiple displays) this option tells MPlayer which screen to display movie on. Range 0 \- ... .TP .B \-z <0\-9> Specifies compression level for PNG output (-vo png) 0 no compression 9 max compression .TP .B \-zr* (\-vo zr only) You can get a list and an explanation of available options executing .I mplayer \-zrhelp .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 \-dapsync (OBSOLETE) Use alternative A/V sync method. .TP .B \-framedrop (see \-hardframedrop option too!) Frame dropping: decode all (except B) frames, video may skip. Useful for playback on slow VGA card/bus. .TP .B \-gui (BETA CODE) Start MPlayer in GUI mode. .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. conf=<file> Read alternative input.conf. 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. js\-dev Specifies the joystick device to use (default is /dev/input/js0). .I NOTE: Autorepeat is currently only supported by joysticks. .TP .B \-lircconf <config\ file> Specifies a configfile for LIRC (see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/.lircrc. .TP .B \-loop <number> Loops movie playback <number> times. 0 means forever. .TP .B \-nojoystick Turns off joystick support. Default is on, if compiled in. .TP .B \-nolirc Turns off lirc support. .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) Load skin from this directory (WITHOUT path name!). .I EXAMPLE: \-skin fittyfene tries these: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/fittyfene ~/.mplayer/Skin/fittyfene .TP .B \-slave This option switches on slave mode. This is intended for use of MPlayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin. See section .B SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL For the syntax. .TP .B \-softsleep Uses high quality software timers. Efficient as the RTC, doesn't need root, but requires more CPU. .TP .B \-sstep <sec> Specifies seconds between displayed frames. Useful for slideshows. .TP .B \-stop_xscreensaver Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. .TP .B \-use-stdin .SH "ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)" .TP .B -audio-density <1\-50> Number of audio chunks per second (default is 2 for 0.5s long audio chunks). .I Note: CBR only, VBR ignores this as it puts each packet in a new chunk. .TP .B -audio-delay <0.0\-...> Sets the audio delay field in the header. Default is 0.0, negative values do not work. This does not delay the audio while encoding, but the player will see the default audio delay, sparing you the use of the -delay option. .TP .B -audio-preload <0.0\-2.0> Sets up audio buffering time interval (default: 0.5s). .TP .B \-divx4opts <option1:option2:...> If encoding to DivX4, you can specify its parameters here. Available options are: help get help br=<value> specify bitrate in kbit <4\-16000> or bit <16001\-24000000> key=<value> maximum keyframe interval (in frames) deinterlace enable deinterlacing (avoid it, DivX4 is buggy!) q=<1\-5> quality (1\-fastest, 5\-best) min_quant=<1\-31> minimum quantizer max_quant=<1\-31> maximum quantizer rc_period=<value> rate control period rc_reaction_period=<value> rate control reaction period rc_reaction_ratio=<value> rate control reaction ratio crispness=<0\-100> specify crispness/smoothness .TP .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 hour 10 minutes -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 .B \-ffourcc <fourcc> Can be used to override the video fourcc of the output file. .I EXAMPLE: -ffourcc div3 will have the output file contain "div3" as video fourcc. .TP .B \-include <config\ file> Specify config file to be parsed after the default .TP .B \-lameopts <option1:option2:...> If encoding to MP3 with libmp3lame, you can specify its parameters here. Available options are: help get help vbr=<0\-4> variable bitrate method 0=cbr 1=mt 2=rh(default) 3=abr 4=mtrh abr average bitrate cbr constant bitrate br=<0\-1024> specify bitrate in kBit (CBR and ABR only) q=<0\-9> quality (0-highest, 9-lowest) (only for VBR) aq=<0\-9> algorithmic quality (0-best/slowest, 9-worst/fastest) ratio=<1\-100> compression ratio vol=<0\-10> set audio input gain mode=<0\-3> 0=stereo 1=joint-stereo 2=dualchannel 3=mono (default: auto) padding=<0\-2> 0=no 1=all 2=adjust .TP .B \-lavcopts <option1:option2:...> If encoding with a codec from libavcodec, you can specify its parameters here. .br .I NOTE: Also see DOCS/tech/libavc-rate-control.txt. .I EXAMPLE: \-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=1800:vhq:keyint=250 Available options are: help get help vcodec=<value> use the specified codec: mjpeg - Motion JPEG h263 - H263 h263p - H263 Plus mpeg4 - DivX 4/5 msmpeg4 - DivX 3 rv10 - an old RealVideo codec mpeg1video - MPEG1 video :) There is no default, you must specify it. vbitrate=<value> specify bitrate in kBit <4-16000> or Bit <16001-24000000> (warning: 1kBit = 1000 Bits) default = 800k vratetol=<value> approximated *filesize* tolerance in kBits. (warning: 1kBit = 1000 Bits) default = 1024*8 kBits = 1MByte keyint=<value> interval between keyframes (specify in frames, >300 are not recommended) default = 250 (one key frame every ten seconds in a 25fps movie) vhq high quality mode, macro blocks will be encoded multiple times and the smallest will be used. default = HQ disabled vme=<0\-5> motion estimation method: 0 no ME at all 1 ME_FULL 2 ME_LOG 3 ME_PHODS 4 ME_EPZS 5 ME_X1 EPZS usually gives best results, but you can try X1, too. FULL is very slow and the others are experimental. default = EPZS vqcomp=<value> If the value is set to 1.0, the quantizer will stay nearly constant (high motion scenes will look bad). If it's 0.0, the quantizer will be changed to make all frames approxi- mately equally sized (low motion scenes will look bad). default = 0.5 vqblur=<0\-1> blurs the quantizer graph over time. 0.0 no blur 1.0 average all past quantizers default = 0.5 vqscale=<2\-31> gives each frame the same quantizer (selects fixed quantizer mode). default = 0 (fixed quantizer mode disabled) vrc_strategy=<0\-2> different strategies to decide which frames should get which quantizer. default = 2 v4mv 4 motion vectors per macro- block, may give you slightly better quality, can only be used in HQ mode and is buggy with B frames currently. default = disabled vpass=<1/2> select internal first pass or second pass of 2-pass mode. default = 0 (1-pass mode) gray encode in grayscale mode. default = disabled mpeg_quant use MPEG quantizers instead of H.263. default = disabled (i.e. use H.263 quantizers) The next 3 options apply only to I & P frames: vqmin=<1\-31> minimum quantizer default = 3 vqmax=<1\-31> maximum quantizer default = 15 vqdiff=<1\-31> quantizer difference Limits the maximum quantizer difference between frames. default = 3 The following options apply only to B frames: vmax_b_frames=<0\-4> maximum number of frames between each I/P frame. default = 0 (B-frames generation disabled) vb_strategy=<0/1> 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 misprediction of file size) default = 0 vb_qfactor=<value> quantizer factor between B and I/P frames (larger means higher quantizer for B frames) default = 2.0 vb_qoffset=<value> quantizer offset between B and I/P frames (larger means higher quantizer for B frames) default = 0.0 The actual quantizer for a given B frame is computed in pass 1 as shown below: prev_IorP_quantizer * vb_qfactor + vb_qoffset In fixed quantizer mode you can use those options: vqscale, vmax_b_frames, vhq, vme, keyint You can use the following options only in pass 1 of 2-pass mode or in 1-pass mode: vqblur, vqdiff You can use the following options only in pass 2 of 2-pass mode: vrc_strategy, vb_strategy All other options can be used in all modes. .TP .B \-noskip Do not skip frames. .TP .B \-o <filename> Outputs to the given filename, instead of the default 'test.avi'. .TP .B \-oac <codec name> Encode with the given codec (use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs. no default is set). .I EXAMPLE: -oac copy no encoding, just streamcopy -oac pcm encode to uncompressed PCM -oac mp3lame encode to MP3 (using Lame) .TP .B \-ofps <fps> The output file will have different frame/sec than the source. You MUST set it for variable fps (asf, some mov) and progressive (29.97fps telecined mpeg) files. .TP .B \-ovc <codec name> Encode with the given codec (use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs, no default). .I EXAMPLE: -ovc copy no encoding, just streamcopy -ovc divx4 encode to DivX4/DivX5 or XviD -ovc rawrgb encode to uncompressed RGB24 -ovc lavc encode with a libavcodec codecs .TP .B \-pass <1/2> With this you can encode 2pass DivX4 files. First encode with -pass 1, then with the same parameters, encode with -pass 2. .br .I NOTE: Use -lavcopts vpass=1/2 for libavcodec 2-pass instead of -pass 1/2. .TP .B \-passlogfile <filename> When encoding in 2pass mode, MEncoder dumps first pass' informations to the given file instead of the default divx2pass.log. .TP .B \-skiplimit <value> Maximal skipable frames after non-skipped one (-noskiplimit for unlimited number). .TP .B \-v, \-\-verbose Enable verbose output (more \-v means more verbosity). .TP .B \-vobsubout <basename> Specify the basename for the output .idx and .sub files. This turns off subtitle rendering in the encoded movie and diverts it to Vobsub subtitle files. .TP .B \-vobsuboutindex <index> Specify the index of the subtitles in the output files. Defaults to 0. .TP .B \-vobsuboutid <langid> Specify the language two letter code for the subtitles. This overrides what is read from the DVD or the .ifo file. .SH "KEYBOARD CONTROL" .I NOTE: MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which allow you to control MPlayer using keyboard, mouse, joystick 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 .B general control <\- and \-> seek backward/forward 10 seconds .br up and down seek backward/forward 1 minute .br pgup and pgdown seek backward/forward 10 minutes .br < and > backward/forward in playlist .br HOME and END go to next/previous playtree entry in the parent list .br INS and DEL go to next/previous alternative source (asx playlist only) .br p / SPACE pause movie (any key unpauses) .br q / ESC stop playing and quit program .br + and \- adjust audio delay by +/\- 0.1 second .br / and * decrease/increase volume .br 9 and 0 decrease/increase volume .br m mute sound .br f toggle fullscreen .br w and e decrease/increase panscan range .br o toggle between OSD states: none / seek / seek+timer .br d toggle frame dropping .br z and x adjust subtitle delay by +/\- 0.1 second .br r and t adjust subtitle position (The following keys are valid only when using \-vo xv or \-vo [vesa|fbdev]:vidix or \-vo xvidix \-vo (x)mga or \-vc divxds (slow).) 1 and 2 adjust contrast .br 3 and 4 adjust brightness .br 5 and 6 adjust hue .br 7 and 8 adjust saturation .TP .B GUI keyboard control ENTER start playing .br s stop playing .br a about .br l load file .br c skin browser .br p toggle playlist .TP .B TV input control h and k select previous/next channel .br n change norm .br u change channel list .TP .B DVDNAV input control K,J,H,L browse up/down/left/right .br M jump to main menu .br S select .SH "SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL" If the \-slave switch is given, playback is controlled by a line\-based protocol. If the new input is enabled (default) each line must contain one command otherwise one of the following tokens: .TP .B Commands .br .br seek <value> [type=<0/1>] Seek to some place in the movie. 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 selects the next/previous one (only supported by asx playlist). sub_delay <value> [abs=<value>] Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- <value> seconds or set it to <value> seconds when abs is non zero. osd [level=<value>] Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level > 0. volume <dir> Increase/decrease volume contrast <\-100 \- 100> [abs=<value>] .br brightness <\-100 \- 100> [abs=<value>] .br hue <\-100 \- 100> [abs=<value>] .br saturation <\-100 \- 100> [abs=<value>] Set/Adjust video parameters. frame_drop [type=<value>] Toggle/Set frame dropping mode. sub_pos <value> Adjust subtitles position. vo_fullscreen Switch to fullscreen mode. tv_step_channel <dir> Select next/previous tv channel. tv_step_norm Change TV norm. tv_step_chanlist Change channel list. gui_loadfile .br gui_loadsubtitle .br gui_about .br gui_play .br gui_stop GUI actions .SH FILES .TP /etc/mplayer.conf system\-wide settings .TP ~/.mplayer/config user settings .TP ~/.mplayer/input.conf input bindings (see '\-input keylist' for full keylist) .TP ~/.mplayer/font/ font directory (There must be a font.desc file and files with .RAW extension.) .TP ~/.mplayer/DVDkeys/ cracked CSS keys .TP Sub files are searched for in this priority (for example /mnt/movie/movie.avi): .br /mnt/cdrom/movie.sub .br ~/.mplayer/sub/movie.sub .br ~/.mplayer/default.sub .SH "EXAMPLES" .TP .B Quickstart DVD playing mplayer \-dvd 1 .TP .B Play only chapters 5, 6, 7 mplayer \-dvd 1 \-chapter 5\-7 .TP .B Multiangle DVD playing mplayer \-dvd 1 \-dvdangle 2 .TP .B Playing from a different DVD device mplayer \-dvd 1 \-dvd\-device /dev/dvd2 .TP .B Old style DVD (VOB) playing mplayer \-dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_4.VOB .TP .B Stream from HTTP mplayer http://mplayer.hq/example.avi .TP .B Convert subtitle to MPsub (to ./dump.mpsub) mplayer dummy.avi \-sub source.sub \-dumpmpsub .TP .B Input from standard V4L mplayer \-tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 \-vc rawi420 \-vo xv .TP .B Encoding DVD title #2, only selected chapters mencoder -dvd 2 -chapter 10-15 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 .TP .B Encoding DVD title #2, resizing to 640x480 mencoder -dvd 2 -vop scale=640:480 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 .TP .B Encoding DVD title #2, resizing to 512xHHH (keep aspect ratio) mencoder -dvd 2 -vop scale -zoom -xy 512 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 .TP .B The same, but with libavcodec family, MPEG4 (Divx5) compression mencoder -dvd 2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1800 -oac copy .TP .B Encoding all *.jpg files in the current dir mencoder \\*.jpg -mf on:fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc divx4 .TP .B Encoding from tuner (see documentation!) mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -o tv.avi -ovc rawrgb .TP .B Encoding from a pipe rar p test-SVCD.rar | mencoder -ovc divx4 -divx4opts br=800 -ofps 24 -pass 1 -- - .TP .B Encoding multiple *.vob files cat *.vob | mencoder <options> - .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 <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu>. We love complete bug reports :) .SH "AUTHORS" Check documentation! MPlayer is (C) 2000\-2002 .I Arpad Gereoffy <sendmail@to.mplayer\-users> This man page is written and maintained by .I Gabucino <sendmail@to.mplayer\-users>. (Patches done by .I Jonas Jermann <sendmail@to.mplayer\-users> ) .SH "STANDARD DISCLAIMER" Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inaccuracies that could be damaging to your system or your eye. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely, the author doesn't take any responsibility for that! .\" end of file