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