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| [[http://mplayerhq.hu|MPlayer]] is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from RealPlayer to avi. | [[http://mplayerhq.hu|MPlayer]] is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from RealPlayer to avi. It has a useful and powerful companion for video encoding called DebianPkg:mencoder. |
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| Also it normally has an encoder shipped with it ({{{mencoder}}}), which is very powerful, but isn't included in the DebianLenny debian package. There is a MPlayer plug-in for [[Mozilla]]: DebPkg:mozilla-mplayer which will be replaced by DebPkg:gecko-mediaplayer (from the same author) that already replaced it in the current testing release (Squeeze). |
There is a MPlayer plug-in for [[Iceweasel]], DebianPkg:gecko-mediaplayer. |
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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. |
== Front ends == |
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| The proposed source package has been stripped from at least encrypted DVD playback and {{{mencoder}}}. | MPlayer has many independently developed GUIs: |
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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}}}. | * DebianPkg:gnome-mplayer * DebianPkg:smplayer * [[http://www.umplayer.com/|umplayer]] |
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| [[DebPkg:mplayer|The package]] landed in Debian Sid on October 26th 2006, this was [[Bug:113238|one of the longest ITP]] (a little more than five years). | == Binary codecs (optional) == |
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| === Binary codecs (optional) === The included {{{/usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary-codecs.sh}}} script can be used to obtain a tarball containing binary-only codecs, extracting these to {{{/usr/lib/codecs}}}. These are used by MPlayer to provide support for file formats not supported natively. ~- {{{ # /usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh install mkdir: created directory `/usr/lib/codecs' mkdir: created directory `mplayer_binary_codecs' Downloading mirrors list.. Getting codecs list ... Downloading MD5 sums from main site 2009-04-15 00:12:01 URL:http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/MD5SUMS [2145/2145] -> "MD5SUMS" [1] Downloading and installing essential-20071007.tar.bz2 ... Downloading essential-20071007.tar.bz2 from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer ... --2009-04-15 00:12:01-- http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2 Resolving www1.mplayerhq.hu... 213.144.138.186 Connecting to www1.mplayerhq.hu|213.144.138.186|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 10009454 (9.5M) [application/x-bzip] Saving to: `essential-20071007.tar.bz2' 100%[=====================================================================================================================>] 10,009,454 574K/s in 44s 2009-04-15 00:12:47 (222 KB/s) - `essential-20071007.tar.bz2' saved [10009454/10009454] Checking MD5 for essential-20071007.tar.bz2 essential-20071007.tar.bz2: OK Installing essential-20071007.tar.bz2 ... Installed essential-20071007.tar.bz2 Succesfully!}}} -~ |
MPlayer can use binary codecs to extend support for file formats, see [[MultimediaCodecs]]. |
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| * DebPkg:mplayer | * DebianPkg:mplayer |
MPlayer is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from RealPlayer to avi. It has a useful and powerful companion for video encoding called mencoder.
There is a MPlayer plug-in for Iceweasel, gecko-mediaplayer. See also: MPlayer on Wikipedia.
Front ends
MPlayer has many independently developed GUIs:
Binary codecs (optional)
MPlayer can use binary codecs to extend support for file formats, see MultimediaCodecs.
See Also
External Links
http://www.mplayerhq.hu - Project homepage;
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html - Upstream FAQ
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/?title=MPlayer_FAQ - #mplayer FAQ
http://people.debian.org/~mjr/mplayer.html - The Debian and mplayer FAQ