The MPlayer package contains an audio/video player that is able to play almost every audio and video CODEC and can be controlled by command line or GUI.
Download (HTTP): http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre1.tar.bz2
Download size: 4.0 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 67.2 MB
Estimated build time: 3.16 SBU
Required CODECs: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/extralite.tar.bz2
Required skin: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/default-1.7.tar.bz2
Optional fonts: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2
Note: These are the minimum to install working MPlayer. For more CODECs, skins and fonts visit MPlayer's homepage.
Note: The package maintainers recommend building without any optimization
Install MPlayer by running the following commands:
install -d /usr/lib/mplayer/extralite && tar xjvf ../extralite.tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/mplayer && ./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --enable-largefiles \ --enable-gui --enable-menu --enable-shared-pp \ --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/extralite && make && make install && make -C libavcodec/libpostproc install && cp etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer && tar xjvf ../default-1.7.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin |
If FreeType is in use, the only advantage of prerendered fonts is that they are faster. Install them like this:
tar xjvf ../font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/mplayer/font |
Set the proper permissions for codecs, skins and fonts:
chown -R root:root /usr/{lib/mplayer/extralite,share/mplayer} |
If you want DVD playback with MPlayer, you need to make a link from your DVD drive to /dev/dvd:
ln -s /dev/[dvd drive] /dev/dvd |
Replace [dvd drive] with whatever device is appropriate, for example /dev/hdc. if you don't know which device to choose, type:
dmesg | grep DVD |
It should result in an output like:
hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-114 0110, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive |
If you have SCSI-Emulation activated for the drives, you'll need to get the right SCSI-device. Every CD/DVD-ROM drive is mapped in the same order as in IDE to the devices named /dev/scd0, /dev/scd1 and so on.
--enable-gui: This switch tells MPlayer to compile the GUI code.
--enable-menu: These switches enable the new menu support. It's like an OSD, but you can also run a shell with it.
--enable-shared-pp: This enables the building of a shared libpostproc (library for post processing, featuring filters like sharpen).
cp etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer: This command copies the standard codecs.conf file to the system-wide configuration directory. MPlayer expects this file at startup.
/etc/mplayer/*, ~/.mplayer/*
If you wish to utilize a FreeType font, you need to link a TTF file to your ~/.mplayer directory. For example:
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf |
ln -sf /usr/share/mplayer/font/font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-[font size]-iso-8859-1/* /usr/share/mplayer/font |
Set up the GUI with the following commands executed from your source directory:
cat > /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf << "EOF" gui = yes skin = default EOF |
The first line, gui = yes, will make MPlayer start in GUI mode automatically. If you want to decide whether to start in GUI mode or not, leave that line out and start mplayer with -gui or as gmplayer (e.g. when starting from a Window Manager menu or command prompt). Note that the main configuration file is called config if it is placed in the ~/.mplayer directory.
The MPlayer package contains mplayer, gmplayer and mencoder.
mplayer manages the input formats, the CODECs and the output formats to play video files, DVDs, (S)VCDs or network streams containing audio and/or video information on your system.
Examples:
mplayer -fs blfs.avi mplayer -vo fbdev -fb /dev/fb0 dvd://1 -aid 128 -sub en -framedrop mplayer -fs vcd://1 # works both for VCDs and SVCDs mplayer http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Klossa/hapkidofight_lo.mpg |
For further information, have a look at the very good documentation included in the package in the subdirectory DOCS/.
gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface.
mencoder is used to encode any MPlayer playable movie to DivX4, XviD or any CODEC in libavcodec with PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio.
Example:
rm frameno.avi mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame \ -lameopts vbr=3 -o frameno.avi # mencoder should output bitrates for average encodings # now, choose one you like best! In the following lines, # replace <bitrate> and <name.avi> with statements of your # personal liking. mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:vhq:vbitrate=<bitrate> -o <name.avi> mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vhq:vbitrate=<bitrate> -o <name.avi> mencoder -forceidx <name.avi> |