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MPlayer is a powerful and versatile media player that can play all types of free media formats (see the FreeFormats page) as well as most 'non-free' media formats. See the RestrictedFormats wiki page for instructions for enabling non-free formats in MPlayer and gmplayer. For more information visit the [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html MPlayer web site].

Installing MPlayer

attachment:IconsPage/apt.png Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)

• Beginning with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, you no longer need to match your CPU to the proper MPlayer package. BR Simply install the mplayer package from the [:AddingRepositoriesHowto: Multiverse repository].

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• See this [:/Breezy: wiki page] for installation instructions.

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Configuration

The configuration options for MPlayer given here are mostly taken from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) and should work on most computers.

attachment:IconsPage/terminal.png To use this configuration, open MPlayer's configuration file

• ~/.mplayer/config

  and edit the file as follows:

  # Specify default video driver (see mplayer -vo help for a list).
  vo=xv,sdl,x11
  
  # Specify default audio driver (see mplayer -ao help for a list).
  ao=alsa,oss,sdl,esd,arts
  
  # Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync.
  framedrop = yes
  
  # get a default OSD font from fontconfig
  fontconfig = yes
  font = "Sans"
  subfont-text-scale = 3

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Streaming Video

MPlayer provides excellent streaming video support for Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany and Konqueror. To enable support for streaming media install the package mozilla-mplayer.

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Supported Audio and Video Codecs

• Supported video codecs include:
  • MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video

  • MPEG-4 SP/ASP (for example, encoded with DivX, XviD or FFmpeg MPEG-4)

  • H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC)
  • Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
  • Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)

  • RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)

  • RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)

  • Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs

  • DV video
  • Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)

  • Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)

  • VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
  • MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
  • FLI/FLC

  • HuffYUV

  • various old simple RLE-like formats
• Supported audio codecs include:
  • MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
  • AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
  • AAC (MPEG-4 audio)

  • WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2

  • WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)

  • RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)

  • RealAudio: DNET and older codecs

  • QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC

  • Ogg Vorbis audio
  • VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
  • alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, adpcm and other simple old audio formats

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See also

• [:/CVS: This wiki page] explains how to install MPlayer from CVS

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