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MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see 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 VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora, and MPEG-4 (DivX) movies too. Another big feature of MPlayer 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 supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (14 supported types) with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)?
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 -idx
option, or
permanently with MEncoder, 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.
MEncoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like MPEG-4 (DivX4) (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 audio.
MEncoder features
Encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer
Encoding to all the codecs of FFmpeg's libavcodec
Video encoding from V4L compatible TV tuners
Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index
Creating files from external audio stream
1, 2 or 3 pass encoding
VBR MP3 audio
Important: VBR MP3 audio doesn't always play nicely on windows players!
PCM audio
Stream copying
Input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with
-mc 0
option)
FPS correction with -ofps
option (useful when encoding
29.97 fps VOB to 24 fps AVI)
Using our very powerful filter system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)
Can encode DVD/VOBsub AND text subtitles into the output file
Can rip DVD subtitles to VOBsub format
Planned features
Even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :).
MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
This began a year ago... I have tried lots of players under Linux (mtv, xmps, dvdview, livid/oms, videolan, xine, xanim, avifile, xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them are unable to play both MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
A'rpi, 2001
mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: Sep 22-25, 2000
The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3 from http://www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000
MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (A'rpi hates C++!!!)
mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000
MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman and Michel Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance.
MPlayer v0.3-v0.9: Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000
It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
MPlayer v0.10: Jan 1, 2001
The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
MPlayer v0.11pre series:
Some new developers joined and since 0.11 the MPlayer project is a team-work! Added ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see http://www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter" Apr 27, 2001
The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development! Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter" Jul 9, 2001
2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support, more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio), even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!
MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter" Oct 8, 2001
Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed, new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX codecs and much more. Try it!
MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter" Jan 3, 2002
MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs, and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.
MPlayer 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter" Nov 11, 2002
Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it came out 2 years after MPlayer v0.01. Happy birthday, MPlayer!
MPlayer 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter" Dec 7, 2002
Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) and Windows Media 9 support, MPlayer is the world's first movie player with support for all known video formats!
MPlayer 0.90 "The CounterCounter" Apr 6, 2003
After more than 1 year, we finally concluded that the code was indeed stable again, and ready to be published as a release. Unfortunately we forgot even to increase the version number, and other annoying bugs went in, so get ready for...
MPlayer 0.91 Aug 13, 2003
The above mentioned and lot of other bugs have been fixed. This is the latest stable version.
MPlayer 1.0pre1 "Development on the beach" Sep 1, 2003
Although this is not a stable release, I am going to mention it because it is the first pre version of the 1.0 series of MPlayer and it is intended to help the big bug hunting party. This is a huge step forward!
MPlayer 1.0 date yet unknown