MPlayer - The Movie Player

http://www.mplayerhq.hu


Table of Contents
How to read this documentation
1. Introduction
History
Installation
Software requirements
Codecs
Video cards
Sound cards
Features
What about the GUI?
Subtitles and OSD
MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)
Installing OSD and subtitles
OSD menu
RTC
2. Features
Supported formats
Video formats
Audio formats
Supported codecs
Video codecs
Audio codecs
Win32 codecs importing HOWTO
Video output devices
Setting up MTRR
Video outputs for traditional video cards
MPEG decoders
Other visualization hardware
TV-out support
Audio output devices
Audio/Video synchronisation
Soundcard experiences, recommendations
Audio filters
Audio plugins (deprecated)
TV input
Compilation
Usage tips
Examples
3. Usage
Command line
Control
Controls configuration
Control from LIRC
Slave mode
Streaming from network or pipes
Remote streams
Compiling the server
Using remote streams
Edit Decision Lists (EDL)
Using an EDL file
Making an EDL file
4. Frequently Asked Questions
5. CD/DVD usage
CD/DVD drives
DVD playback
VCD playback
6. Ports
Linux
Debian packaging
RPM packaging
ARM
*BSD
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
Darwin
Sun Solaris
Silicon Graphics Irix
HP-UX
QNX
Windows
Cygwin
MinGW
Mac OS
Amiga/MorphOS (GeekGadgets)
7. Encoding with MEncoder
Encoding 2-pass MPEG-4 ("DivX")
Encoding to MPEG format
Rescaling movies
Stream copying
Fixing AVIs with broken index or interleaving
Appending multiple AVI files
Encoding with the libavcodec codec family
Encoding from multiple input image files (JPEG, PNG, TGA, SGI)
Extracting DVD subtitles to VOBsub file
Preserving aspect ratio
Custom inter/intra matrices
Making a high quality MPEG-4 ("DivX") rip of a DVD movie
Constant Quantizer vs. 2-pass
Cropping and Scaling
Audio
Interlacing and Telecine
Filtering
Example
How to deal with telecine and interlacing within NTSC DVDs
How to tell what type of video you have
How to encode each category
Footnotes
A. Mailing lists
B. How to report bugs
How to fix bugs
How to report bugs
Where to report bugs
What to report
System Information
Hardware and drivers
Configure problems
Compilation problems
Playback problems
Crashes
I know what I am doing...
C. Known bugs
Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems
Various A-V sync and other audio problems
General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files)
Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files
No sound at all
No picture at all (just plain grey/green window)
Video-out problems
D. MPlayer skin format
Overview
Directories
Image formats
Skin components
Files
The skin file
Main window and playbar
Subwindow
Skin menu
Fonts
Symbols
GUI messages
E. Developer cries
GCC 2.96
Binary distribution
nVidia
Joe Barr
F. How to send patches
List of Tables
1-1. Some URLs
2-1. SDL only keys
List of Examples
3-1. A simple input control file
7-1. copy audio track
7-2. encode audio track
7-3. Copying two subtitles from a DVD while doing 2-pass encoding
7-4. Copying a french subtitle from an MPEG file