.\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy .\" This man page was/is done by Gabucino, Diego Biurrun, Jonas Jermann .\" .\" Run groff -m man -Thtml mplayer.1 > manpage.html for a html version .\" . .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Macro definitions .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .\" default indentation is 7, don't change! .nr IN 7 .. .\" define indentation for suboptions .nr SS 20 .. .\" add new suboption .de IPs .IP "\\$1" \n(SS .. .\" begin of first grade suboptions, end with .RE .de RSs .RS \n(IN+3 .. .\" begin of 2nd grade suboptions .de RSss .PD 0 .RS \n(SS+3 .. .\" end of 2nd grade suboptions .de REss .RE .PD 1 .. . .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Title .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .TH MPlayer 1 "2002-09-01" . .SH NAME mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux .br mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Synopsis .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH SYNOPSIS .B mplayer .RI [options]\ [ \ file\ | \ URL\ | \ playlist\ | \ -\ ] .br .B mplayer .RI [global\ options] \ file1\ [specific\ options]\ [file2]\ \ [specific\ options] .br .B mplayer .RI [global\ options]\ { group\ of\ files\ and\ options }\ \ [group\ specific\ options] .br .B mplayer .RI [ dvd | vcd | cdda | cddb | tv ] ://title\ [options] .br .B mplayer .RI [ mms[t] | http | http_proxy | rt[s]p ] :// [user:passwd@] URL [:port]\ \ [options] .br .B mencoder .RI [options]\ [ \ file\ | \ URL\ | \ -\ ]\ [\-o\ file] .br .B gmplayer .RI [options]\ [\-skin\ skin] .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Description .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH DESCRIPTION .B mplayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non\-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, 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 (without the avifile library). .PP Another great 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, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! .br Most of them support 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, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+! .PP 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 9 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VobSub and Closed Captions) are supported. .PP .B mencoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (see above) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It encodes to DivX4 (1, 2 or 3 passes), XviD, codecs of libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. It also has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, add/remove noise, rgb/yuv conversion) and more. .PP .B gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface. It has the same options as MPlayer. .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" Options .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH GENERAL NOTES .B Check the HTML documentation, too! Every "flag" option has a "noflag" counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the \-fs option is \-nofs. .br You can put all of the options in a config file which will be read every time mplayer is run. The system-wide config file 'mplayer.conf' is in your configuration directory (e.g. /etc/mplayer or /usr/local/etc/mplayer), the user specific one is '~/.mplayer/config'. User specific options override system\-wide options and options given on the command line override either. The syntax of the config files is 'option=', everything after a '#' is considered a comment. Options that work without values can be enabled by setting them to 'yes' or '1' and disabled by setting them to 'no' or '0'. Even suboptions can be specified in this way. .I EXAMPLE: .br # Use Matrox driver by default. .br vo=xmga .br # I love practicing handstands while watching videos. .br flip=yes .br # Decode/encode multiple files from png, start it with -mf on .br mf= type=png:fps=25 .SH "PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)" .TP .B \-autoq (use with \-vop pp!) 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 it together with \-pp but it is 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 \-dapsync (OBSOLETE) Use alternative A/V sync method. .TP .B \-framedrop (see \-hardframedrop option too!) Frame dropping: decode all (except B) frames, video may skip. Useful for playback on slow VGA card/bus. .TP .B \-h, \-\-help Show short summary of options. .TP .B \-hardframedrop More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image distortion! .TP .B \-input This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system. Relative path are relative to $HOME/.mplayer. .I NOTE: .br Autorepeat is currently only supported by joysticks. .br Available commands are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs conf= Read alternative input.conf. If given without pathname, $HOME/.mplayer is assumed. .IPs ar\-delay Delay in msec before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable). .IPs ar\-rate How many key presses/second when we autorepeat. .IPs keylist Prints all keys that can be bound to. .IPs cmdlist Prints all commands that can be bound. .IPs js\-dev Specifies the joystick device to use (default is /dev/input/js0). .RE .PD 1 . .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 \-nojoystick Turns off joystick support. Default is on, if compiled in. .TP .B \-nolirc Turns off lirc support. .TP .B \-nortc \ \ Turns off usage of /dev/rtc (real-time clock). .TP .B \-playlist Play files according to this file list (1 file/row or Winamp or asx format). .TP .B \-quiet \ \ Display less output, status messages. .TP .B \-skin (BETA CODE) Load skin from this directory (WITHOUT path name!). .I EXAMPLE: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs "\-skin fittyfene" tries these: .RSss /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/fittyfene .br ~/.mplayer/Skin/fittyfene .REss .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-slave \ \ This option switches on slave mode. This is intended for use of MPlayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin. See section .B SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL For the syntax. .TP .B \-softsleep Uses high quality software timers. Efficient as the RTC, doesn't need root, but requires more CPU. .TP .B \-sstep Specifies seconds between displayed frames. Useful for slideshows. .TP .B \-stop_xscreensaver Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. .TP .B \-use-stdin .SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS" .TP .B \-aid (also see \-alang option) Select audio channel [MPG/SUB: 0\-31 AVI/OGM: 1\-99 ASF/RM: 0\-127 VOB: 128\-159 LPCM: 160\-191] .TP .B \-alang (also see \-aid option) Works only for DVD playback! Selects DVD audio language. It always tries to play audio streams whose language matches the given code. For the list of available languages, use with the \-v switch and look at the output. .I EXAMPLE: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs "\-alang hu,en" Plays Hungarian and falls back to English if Hungarian is not available. .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-audio\-demuxer (\-audiofile only) Force audio demuxer type for \-audiofile. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. Use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. .TP .B \-audiofile Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis). .TP .B \-cdrom\-device Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom. .TP .B \-cache This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/URL. Especially useful on slow media (default is \-nocache). .TP .B \-cdda This option can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of MPlayer. Available options are: . .RSs .IPs speed= set CD spin speed .IPs paranoia=<0\-2> set paranoia level .RSss 0: disable checking .br 1: overlap checking only (default) .br 2: full data correction and verification .REss .IPs generic-dev= use specified generic SCSI device .IPs sector-size= atomic read size .IPs overlap= force minimum overlap search during verification to sectors. .IPs toc-bias Assume that the beginning offset of track 1 as reported in the TOC will be addressed as LBA 0. Some Toshiba drives need this for getting track boundaries correct. .IPs toc-offset= Add sectors to the values reported when addressing tracks. May be negative. .IPs (no)skip (never) accept imperfect data reconstruction. .RE . .TP .B \-chapter [-] Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to end playing at (default: 1). 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 \-demuxer Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. Use \-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. .TP .B \-dumpaudio (MPLAYER only) Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with mpeg/ac3). .TP .B \-dumpfile (MPLAYER only) Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together with \-dumpaudio/\-dumpvideo/\-dumpstream. .TP .B \-dumpstream (MPLAYER only) Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump. Useful when ripping from DVD or network. .TP .B \-dumpsub (MPLAYER only) Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams. .TP .B \-dumpvideo (MPLAYER only) Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable). .TP .B \-dvd Tell MPlayer which movies (specified by title id) to play. For example sometimes '1' is a trailer, and '2' is the real movie. .I NOTE: .br Sometimes deinterlacing is required for DVD playback, see the \-pp 0x20000 or \-npp lb options. .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 (default: 1). 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 a VOB file copied undecrypted from DVD, this option gives the CSS key needed to decrypt the VOB (the key is printed when authenticating with the DVD drive using \-dvdauth). .TP .B \-dvdnav (BETA CODE) Force usage of libdvdnav. .TP .B \-forceidx Force rebuilding of INDEX. Useful for files with broken index (desyncs, etc). Seeking will be possible. You can fix the index permanently with MEncoder (see the documentation). .TP .B \-fps Override video framerate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number). .TP .B \-frames Play/convert only first frames, then quit. .TP .B \-hr\-mp3\-seek (.MP3 only) Hi\-res mp3 seeking. Default is: enabled when playing from external MP3 file, as we need to seek to the very exact position to keep A/V sync. It can be slow especially when seeking backwards \- it has to rewind to the beginning to find the exact frame. .TP .B \-idx (also see \-forceidx) Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incomplete downloads, or badly created AVIs. .TP .B \-mc Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds). .TP .B \-mf Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files. Available options are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs on turns on multifile support .IPs w= width of the output (autodetect) .IPs h= height of the output (autodetect) .IPs fps= fps of the output (default: 25) .IPs type= type of input files (available types: jpeg, png) .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-ni (.AVI only) Force usage of non\-interleaved AVI parser (fixes playing of some bad AVI files). .TP .B \-nobps (.AVI only) Do not use average byte/sec value for A\-V sync (AVI). Helps with some AVI files with broken header. .TP .B \-passwd (see \-user option too!) Specify password for http authentication. .TP .B \-rawaudio This option lets you play raw audio files. It may also be used to play audio CDs which are not 44KHz 16Bit stereo. Available options are: .PD 0 .RSs .IPs on use raw audio demuxer .IPs channels= number of channels .IPs rate= rate in samples per second .IPs samplesize= sample size in byte .IPs format= fourcc in hex .RE .PD 1 . .TP .B \-skipopening Skip DVD opening (dvdnav only). .TP .B \-sb (see \-ss option too!) Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CDROM images / vob files with junk at the beginning. .TP .B \-srate Forces the given audio playback rate, changing video speed to keep a-v sync. MEncoder passes this value to lame for resampling. .TP .B \-ss