MPlayer
MPlayer is a powerful multimedia player and more - It plays almost anything from RealPlayer to avi.
Also it has an encoder shipped with it (MEncoder), which is very powerful.
There is a MPlayer plug-in for Mozilla: mozilla-mplayer
See also: MPlayer
MPlayer in Debian
See the Debian mplayer FAQ for some background information about the MPlayer in Debian saga.
The proposed source package has been stripped from at least encrypted DVD playback and mencoder.
In September 2006, there was an update and summary on the case on debian-devel.
The package landed in Debian Sid on October 26th 2006, this was one of the longest ITP (a little more than five years).
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.
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# /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!
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