.\" This manpage was/is done by Gabucino .\" .TH "MPlayer" "1" "2002-04-18" .SH "NAME" mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux .SH "SYNOPSIS" .B mplayer .RB [options]\ [\fIfile\fP\ |\ \fIURL\fP\ |\ \fIplaylist\fP\ |\ \-\ |\ ...] .br .B mplayer .RB [global\ options]\ \fIfile1\fP\ [specific\ options]\ [file2]\ [specific\ options]\ ... .br .B mplayer .RB [global\ options]\ {\fIgroup\ of\ files\ and\ options\fP}\ [group\ specific\ options]\ ... .br .B mplayer .RB [dvd|vcd|tv]://[title]\ [options] .br .B mplayer .RB [mms|http]://URL[:port]\ [options] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .B mplayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non\-x86 CPUs, see section 6). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). Another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox G-series, 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 and ATI cards) too! .br 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 Siemens DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+! Nice big antialiased shaded subtitles with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean fonts are supported (10 supported subtitle formats: MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, SAMI (smi), vplayer, RealMedia RT, ssa (Sub Station Alpha), AQT, VobSub, and our own: MPsub). .SH "GUI OPTIONS" .I NOTE: The GUI code has to be compiled in *explicitly* (see documentation). .br .I NOTE: The GUI code is STILL exterimental, it is under heavy development, parts of it (for example: playlist) not yet implemented. .TP .B \-gui Start MPlayer in GUI mode. .TP .B \-skin Load skin from this directory (WITHOUT path name!). For example '\-skin fittyfene' tries these: /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/fittyfene ~/.mplayer/Skin/fittyfene .SH "DVD OPTIONS" .I NOTE: These options are valid only with DVD support compiled in (see documentation). .br .I NOTE: DVD playback sometimes requires deinterlacing: see '\-pp 0x20000' or '\-npp lb' options. .TP .B \-alang\ Used when playing DVD disks. Expects a two\-letter country code(s) as parameter, and always tries to play back audio streams those language matches the given code. For example: \-alang hu,en will always try to play hungarian or if it's non\-existant then english audio streams if there are any. .TP .B \-chapter\ [-] Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to end playing at. Examples can be found below. .TP .B \-csslib (old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so .TP .B \-dvd\ Tell MPlayer which movies (marked with titleid) to play. For example sometimes '1' are trailers, and '2' is the real movie. .TP .B \-dvd\-device\ Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd .TP .B \-dvdangle\ Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles. Here you can tell MPlayer which angles to use. Examples can be found below. .TP .B \-dvdauth (old-style DVD option) Turns on DVD authentication using the given device. .TP .B \-dvdkey (old-style DVD option) When decoding from non-DVD, this option gives the CSS key needed to crack the DVD (the key is printed when authenticating with DVD). .TP .B \-dvdnav Force usage of libdvdnav. .TP .B \-sid\ Turns on DVD subtitle displaying. Also, you MUST specify a number which corresponds to a DVD subtitle language (0\-31). For the list of available subtitles, use with the \-v switch and look at the output. .br .I NOTE: Use \-slang to define the subtitle language by name. .TP .B \-skipopening Skip dvd opening (dvdnav only). .TP .B \-slang\ See the \-sid option, but this one needs a two\-letter parameter, a country code. Like: \-slang hu,en will always select hungarian or if it's non existant then english subtitles, if there are any. For the list of available subtitles, use with the \-v switch and look at the output. .SH "GENERAL OPTIONS" .I NOTE: Every "flag" option has "noflag" pair, e.g. \-fs opposite is \-nofs .TP .B \-ao\ [:] Select audio output driver and optinaly device. "device" is valid with SDL too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:esd). If using OSS, you can specify which sound device to use like this: \-ao oss:/dev/dsp1 (replaces the old \-dsp option) You can get the list of available drivers executing .I mplayer \-ao help .TP .B \-aspect Set aspect ratio of movies. It's autodetected on MPEG files, and can't be autodetected on AVI files. Examples: \-aspect 4:3 or \-aspect 1.3333 \-aspect 16:9 or \-aspect 1.7777 .TP .B \-audiofile\ Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Vorbis) .TP .B \-autoq\ Dynamically changes the level of postprocess, depending on spare CPU time available. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you can use some big number. You may not use together with \-pp but it's ok with \-npp! .TP .B \-benchmark Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end. Used in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only video codec. .TP .B \-cdrom\-device\ Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom .TP .B \-dr Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs) (default is off). .TP .B \-ffactor\ Resample alphamap of the font. Can be: 0 plain white fonts 0.75 very narrow black outline [default] 1 narrow black outline 10 bold black outline .TP .B \-font\ Search for the OSD/SUB fonts in an alternative directory (default: ~/.mplayer/font/font.desc). For example: \-font ~/.mplayer/arial\-14/font.desc .TP .B \-fs Fullscreen playing (centers movie, and makes black bands around it). Toggle it with the 'f' key (not all video outputs support it). .TP .B \-h, --help Show short summary of options .TP .B \-ifo Indicate the file that will be used to load palette and frame size for VOBSUB subtitles. .TP .B \-lircconf\ Specifies a configfile for LIRC (see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/.lircrc .TP .B \-loop\ Loops movie playback times. 0 means forever. .TP .B \-mf\ Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files. The sub\-options are separated by ":" (see documentation). They are: on turns on multifile support w= width of the output h= height of the output fps= fps of the output type= type of input files (available types : jpeg, png) .TP .B \-mixer\ This option will tell MPlayer to use a different device for mixing than /dev/mixer. .TP .B \-monitoraspect Set aspect ratio of your screen. Examples: \-monitoraspect 4:3 or 1.3333 \-monitoraspect 16:9 or 1.7777 .TP .B \-noautosub Turns off automatic subtitles .TP .B \-nosound Don't play sound .TP .B \-osdlevel\ Specifies which mode the OSD should start in (0: none, 1: seek, 2: seek+timer) (default = 2) .TP .B \-playlist Play files according to this filelist (1 file/row or Winamp or ASX format). .TP .B \-quiet Display less output, status messages. .TP .B \-rootwin Play movie in the root window (desktop background) instead of opening a new one. Works only with the xv and xmga drivers. .TP .B \-ss\