MPlayer
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MPlayer is a powerful and customisable video player with support for a large number of audio and video codecs.
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].
BR attachment:IconsPage/apt.png Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and earlier
- See this [:/Breezy: wiki page] for installation instructions.
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.
Supported Audio and Video Codecs
- Supported video codecs include:
- MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX, OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
- 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
- 3ivx
- 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