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[[http://mplayerhq.hu|MPlayer]] is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from RealPlayer to avi. #language en
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[[http://mplayerhq.hu|MPlayer]] is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from CD/DVD and the like, to container formats, such as avi, mp4 or ogg, it also plays many different audio and video formats, it has supports for subtitles and can play streaming formats, and many others. It has a useful and powerful companion for video encoding called DebianPkg:mencoder.
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Also it has an Encoder shipped with it [[MEncoder]], which is very powerful. There is a MPlayer plug-in for [[Iceweasel]], DebianPkg:gecko-mediaplayer.
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Building your own package by yourself for Debian is easy, though, precompiled debs are available for x86, amd64 and ppc at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ Debian also ships DebianPkg:mpv, which is a more recent fork of MPlayer (actually a fork of MPlayer2 which was in turn a fork of MPlayer).
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There is a MPlayer plug-in for [[Mozilla]]. == Front ends ==
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See also: WikiPedia:MPlayer MPlayer has many independently developed GUIs:
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== Mplayer in Debian ==
See the [[http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html|Debian mplayer FAQ]] for some background information about the Mplayer in Debian saga.
 * DebianPkg:gnome-mplayer
 * DebianPkg:smplayer
 * DebianPkg:kmplayer
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The proposed source package has been stripped from at least encrypted DVD playback and {{{mencoder}}}. == Binary codecs (optional) ==
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In September 2006, there was an [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00915.html|update and summary on the case]] on {{{debian-devel}}}. MPlayer can use binary codecs to extend support for file formats, see [[MultimediaCodecs]].
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The package landed in Debian Sid on October 26th 2006, this was [[http://bugs.debian.org/113238|one of the longest ITP]] (a little more than five years). == Other ==
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DebPkg:mplayer
 * Render video as ASCII art: {{{mplayer -vo caca MyFile.mpg}}} ''or'' {{{mplayer -vo aa MyFile.mpg}}}

== See also ==

 * [[Multimedia#Media_players|Media players]]

=== Debian-specific information ===

  * [[DebianPkg:mplayer|mplayer]]

  * [[DebianBug:mplayer|Bugs]]

  * [[DebianMan:mplayer|Manual pages]]

  * [[https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mplayer|Security Bug Tracker]]

  * https://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html - The Debian and mplayer FAQ

=== Upstream specific information ===

 * [[http://www.mplayerhq.hu|Homepage]]

 * [[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html|FAQ]]

 * [[irc://irc.freenode.net/%23mplayer|#mplayer]] - [[IRC]] channel
  * [[http://wiki.multimedia.cx/?title=MPlayer_FAQ|#mplayer FAQ]]

=== Other information ===

 * [[WikiPedia:mplayer|mplayer on wikipedia]]

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Translation(s): English - French - Italiano


MPlayer is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from CD/DVD and the like, to container formats, such as avi, mp4 or ogg, it also plays many different audio and video formats, it has supports for subtitles and can play streaming formats, and many others. It has a useful and powerful companion for video encoding called mencoder.

There is a MPlayer plug-in for Iceweasel, gecko-mediaplayer.

Debian also ships mpv, which is a more recent fork of MPlayer (actually a fork of MPlayer2 which was in turn a fork of MPlayer).

Front ends

MPlayer has many independently developed GUIs:

Binary codecs (optional)

MPlayer can use binary codecs to extend support for file formats, see MultimediaCodecs.

Other

  • Render video as ASCII art: mplayer -vo caca MyFile.mpg or mplayer -vo aa MyFile.mpg

See also

Debian-specific information

Upstream specific information

Other information


CategorySoftware CategoryVideo CategorySound