MPlayer
MPlayer is a very
popular movie player which runs on many systems including Linux. It
has builtin support for the most common video and audio formats (see
list below),
as well as having a powerful filter system for
video and audio manipulation.
MPlayer currently works best from the command line, but visual
feedback for many functions is available from its onscreen status
display (OSD),
which is also used for displaying subtitles. MPlayer also has a
Graphical User Interface (GUI) with skin
support and several unofficial alternative graphical frontends are
available.
MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder
boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+.
MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information,
nice
big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard
controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc),
Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats
(MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle,
JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub
and Closed Captions) are supported as well.
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.
Features include:
- Supported Input Formats: (S)VCD (Super Video CD), CDRwin's
.bin image file, DVD, including encrypted DVD, MPEG-1/2
(ES/PS/PES/VOB), RIFF AVI file format, ASF/WMV/WMA format, QT/MOV/MP4
format, RealAudio/RealVideo format, Ogg/OGM files, Matroska, NUT, NSV
(Nullsoft Streaming Video), VIVO format, FLI format, NuppelVideo
format, yuv4mpeg format, FILM (.cpk) format, RoQ format, PVA format,
streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP, and TV grabbing
- Supported Video and Audio Codecs: 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, and various old simple RLE-like formats
- Supported audio codecs: 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
- Supported Video Output Devices: X11 with SHM
extension, X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV
& scaling), Xvideo Motion Compensation, VIDeo Interface for
*niX, VIDIX in an X11 window, VIDIX on the console, X11 DGA extension
(both v1.0 and v2.0), OpenGL renderer, gl2, framebuffer output, SVGAlib
output (supports EGA displays), SDL >= v1.1.7 driver, GGI
graphics output, text mode rendering, text mode rendering in color,
display through the VESA BIOS (also needed for Radeon TV-out), and
DirectFB support
- Supported Audio Output Devices: OSS (Open Sound System),
SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer), ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture), NAS (Network Audio System), ESD (ESound
Daemon), ARTS (KDE Sound System),and JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
- Streaming: Authentication for Real RTSP stream
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MPlayer also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
selector below allows you to filter the different types of software
included
in that separate article.
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