MPlayer is a command-line media player for Linux built around direct control and highly configurable playback. Rather than centring on a desktop interface, it exposes a large range of options through command-line arguments, keyboard controls and configuration files. This makes it useful both as an interactive player and as part of scripted media workflows.
Its on-screen display provides playback information, visual feedback and subtitle rendering without changing the command-line-oriented design. MPlayer also provides extensive control over decoding, filtering, synchronisation and output.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Plays common container formats including AVI, Matroska, MP4, Ogg and MPEG program streams.
- Handles DVDs, Video CDs, audio CDs and other optical-media sources where the required system support is available.
- Supports network playback through protocols such as HTTP, FTP, RTP and RTSP.
- Provides extensive subtitle handling, including text subtitles, DVD subtitles and configurable on-screen display rendering.
- Includes video filters for scaling, cropping, rotation, deinterlacing, post-processing and colour-space conversion.
- Offers audio filters for channel manipulation, resampling, volume adjustment and other playback processing.
- Supports numerous video and audio output drivers, allowing playback across graphical desktops, framebuffers and specialist output paths.
- Can be controlled through slave mode for integration with front-ends, scripts and external applications.
- Provides configurable keyboard controls, seeking behaviour, playback speed and synchronisation adjustments.
- Works with the companion MEncoder tool for transcoding, filtering and media-processing tasks.
Website: www.mplayerhq.hu/
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Developer: MPlayer Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
MPlayer is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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