source: multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml@ 442bf14

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http "http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/m/mplayer-svn_20120315.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum        "bcd0f9986a4f14a89ea9fb5ffb15d857">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-size          "9.9 MB">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize     "137 MB">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-time          "4.7 SBU">

  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin          "Blue-1.8.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum   "340368f4e33f767d9df109990fb29c02">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size     "218 KB">
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<sect1 id="mplayer" xreflabel="MPlayer-&mplayer-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mplayer.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>MPlayer-&mplayer-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="mplayer">
    <primary sortas="a-MPlayer">MPlayer</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to MPlayer</title>

    <para>The <application>MPlayer</application> package contains a powerful
    audio/video player controlled via the command line or graphical interface
    which is able to play almost every popular audio and video file format. With 
    supported video hardware and additional drivers, <application>MPlayer</application> can
    play video files without an <application>X Window System</application>
    installed.</para>

    <para>For <application>MPlayer</application> general information and
    available features, including a full list of file formats, codecs and
    output devices supported by <application>MPlayer</application>, visit the
    <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">
    <application>MPlayer</application> web site</ulink>.</para>
    
    &lfs70_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &mplayer-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &mplayer-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &mplayer-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<!--
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <title>Patches</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patch: <ulink
        url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/asmrules_fix_20061231.diff"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patch: <ulink
        url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/cddb_fix_20070605.diff"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-ext_ffmpeg-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->

    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <title>Skins</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>Default GUI skin: <ulink
        url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &mplayer-skin-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Additional skins: <ulink
        url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
<!--
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <title>Fonts</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>Prerendered fonts: <ulink
        url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/&mplayer-font;.tar.bz2"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-font-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &mplayer-font-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Additional fonts: <ulink
        url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->
    <para>Skins are not required to build and use <application>MPlayer
    </application>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MPlayer Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
    <xref linkend="yasm"/>
    </para>    
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
    <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
    </para>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
    <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/mplayer/">LIVE555 Streaming Media</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/">RTMPDump</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/vstream-client/">TiVo vstream client</ulink> and
    <ulink url="http://www.xmms.org/">XMMS</ulink>
    <!-- Mplayer can only use internal versions of these at the moment:
    <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
    <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
    <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
    -->
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Output Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="alsa"/>,
      <xref linkend="arts"/>,
      <xref linkend="esound"/>,
      <xref linkend='pulseaudio'/>,  
      <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
      <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://openal.org/">OpenAL</ulink> and
      <ulink url="http://www.radscan.com/nas.html">NAS</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Output Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
    <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
    <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
    <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
    <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">libcaca</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink> and
    <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org/">OpenJPEG</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
    <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
    <xref linkend="speex"/>,
    <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
    <xref linkend="mpg123"/>,
    <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
    <xref linkend="faac"/>,
    <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
    <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
    <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
    <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
    <xref linkend="lame"/>,
    <ulink url="ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.2/contrib/toolame-02m-beta8.tar.bz2">tooLAME</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/twolame/">TwoLAME</ulink>,
    <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libgsm">libgsm</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">libmpcdec</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/">OpenCore Adaptive Multi Rate</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/">CrystalHD</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html">x264</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/">Dirac</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/">Schroedinger</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=NUT">libnut</ulink>
    
    <!-- MPlayer can only use an internal version of this at the moment
    <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> -->
    
    </para>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Miscellaneous Dependencies</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
      <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
      <xref linkend="unrar"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> (required for the GUI),
      <ulink url="http://cihar.com/software/enca/">Enca</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/">LADSPA</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bs2b/">libbs2b</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink> and
      <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/lirccd/">LIRC Client Daemon</ulink>, 
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/> (required to build the HTML documentation), 
      <xref linkend="DocBook"/> (required to build the HTML documentation) and 
      <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> (required to build the HTML documentation)
    </para>
    
    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mplayer"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of MPlayer</title>

<!-- MPlayer can play most filetypes without this
    <sect3>
      <title>CODEC Installation (Optional)</title>

      <para>If you downloaded the binary CODECs, extract them to 
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</filename> using the 
      following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> 
      user (substitute and/or add different CODEC filenames, if necessary):</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs &amp;&amp;
tar -xvf ../&mplayer-codec; \
    -C /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs -strip-components=1 &amp;&amp;
chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</userinput></screen>

      <para>If you installed any CODECs, ensure you add
      <option>-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</option>
      to the <command>configure</command> script.</para>

    </sect3>
-->
<!-- No longer needed
    <sect3>
      <title>Installing OSD and Subtitles Support (Optional)</title>

      <para>To enable OSD (On Screen Display) and subtitles support, add
        <option>-enable-menu</option> to the <command>configure</command>
      script. You'll also need to set up at least one font (see font
      installation instructions a little later).</para>

    </sect3>
-->
    <sect3>
      <title>Main MPlayer Installation</title>

      <note>
        <para>The package maintainers recommend building without any
        optimizations.</para>
      </note>

      <para>You may wish to examine the output from
      <command>./configure --help</command> to find out what additional
      parameters to <command>configure</command> are needed to include
      the dependencies you have installed on your system.</para>

      <para>Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following
      commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
            --enable-dynamic-plugins \
            --enable-menu \
            --enable-gui &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

      <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

      <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput></screen>

<para>To build and install the HTML documentation, run as 
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make doc &amp;&amp;
install -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; &amp;&amp;
cp DOCS/HTML/en/* /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</userinput></screen>

      <para>You will need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> only if you want to
      change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of
      it. Ensure any changes you make to <filename>codecs.conf</filename>
      achieve the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been
      known to cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary,
      create the file using the following command.</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>

      <para>You may also want to copy all the default configuration files to
      <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future reference
      or more customization ability.</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>

      <!-- Is this needed?
      <para><application>MPlayer</application> requires that the RTC run at a
      frequency of 1024 Hz.  Make this setting change at boot-time by adding
      a line to <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>:</para>
      
<screen role="root"><userinput>echo "dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" >> /etc/sysctl.conf</userinput></screen>
       -->
       
    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Skin Installation (Optional)</title>

      <para>To enable the GTK frontend of <application>MPlayer</application>, 
      you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and 
      create the default location (as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> 
      user):</para>
      
<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin; \
    -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &amp;&amp;
chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/skins/Blue &amp;&amp;
chmod -v 755 /usr/share/mplayer/skins/Blue{,/icons} &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>
    
<!--
    <sect3>
      <title>OSD and Subtitles Font Installation (Required if '-enable-menu' Was
      Passed to 'configure')</title>

      <para>The recommended method to set up a font for
      <application>MPlayer</application> is to link a TTF file to
      the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/mplayer</filename> directory.
      For example:</para>

<screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d /usr/share/mplayer &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF/luxisri.ttf \
    ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</userinput></screen>

      <para>There are several other ways to set up a font package. To use a
      prerendered <application>MPlayer</application> font package, extract
      and link one of the font tarballs using the following commands:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-font;.tar.bz2 \
    -C /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
cd /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf &mplayer-font;/font-arial-<replaceable>&lt;font size&gt;</replaceable>-iso-8859-1/* .</userinput></screen>

      <para>Available font sizes are 14, 18, 24 or 28.</para>

      <para>Additional information as well as additional methods to set up an
      <application>MPlayer</application> font package can be found at <ulink
      url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/subosd.html#mpsub-install"/>.</para>

    </sect3>
    -->
    
    <!--
      Following section should be removed after BLFS-6.2.
      Current Udev creates persistent cd/dvd links automatically
    <sect3>
      <title>Installation for DVD Playback (Optional)</title>

      <para>If you want DVD playback with <application>MPlayer</application>,
      you need to ensure a link exists between your DVD drive and
      <filename>/dev/dvd</filename>. This process is described in the
      <ulink url="&lfs-root;/chapter07/symlinks.html">Creating custom
      symlinks to devices</ulink> section in LFS. The user must be part
      of the <systemitem class="groupname">cdrom</systemitem> group in
      order to use the device.</para>

    </sect3>
    -->
  </sect2>
    
  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>
    
    <para><parameter>--enable-gui</parameter>: This option is set to build GMPlayer,
    a GTK frontend for MPlayer.</para>
    <para><parameter>--enable-menu</parameter>: This option is set to enable the
    on-screen-display.</para>
    <!--
    <para><parameter>-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</parameter>: Use this option 
    if you installed the binary codecs.</para>
    -->
    
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring MPlayer</title>

    <sect3 id="mplayer-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/mplayer/*</filename> and
      <filename>~/.mplayer/*</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.mplayer">~/.mplayer/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-mplayer">/etc/mplayer/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide
      files in <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> (in fact,
      this directory is empty unless you copied the default files as mentioned
      above). Configuration can be accomplished by choosing the configuration
      button located on the <application>MPlayer</application> GUI. Any
      configuration changes made in the GUI will be saved in the user's
      <filename class='directory'>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.</para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>
  
  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gmplayer, mplayer and mencoder</seg>
        <seg>none</seg>
        <seg>/etc/mplayer, /usr/lib/mplayer, /usr/share/mplayer and 
        /usr/share/doc/mplayer</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gmplayer">
        <term><command>gmplayer</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a symlink to <command>mplayer</command> which
          brings up the GTK frontend of
          <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mplayer gmplayer">
            <primary sortas="b-gmplayer">gmplayer</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mplayer-prog">
        <term><command>mplayer</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> is the main MPlayer video player.</para>

<!-- This is not the place for usage directions, right?
<para>Examples of usage:</para>

<screen><userinput>mplayer -fs blfs.avi
mplayer -vo fbdev -fb /dev/fb0 dvd://1 \
    -aid 128 -sub en -framedrop
mplayer -fs vcd://1    # works both for VCDs and SVCDs
mplayer http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.mpg</userinput></screen>

          <para>For further information, look at the very good documentation
          included with the package in the source tree subdirectory
          <filename class="directory">DOCS</filename> (also installed at
          <filename class='directory'>/usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</filename>).</para>
          -->
          <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-mplayer">mplayer</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mencoder">
        <term><command>mencoder</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a powerful command line video decoding, encoding and 
            filtering tool.</para>
<!-- Usage directions       
          is used to encode any <application>MPlayer</application>
          playable movie to DivX4, <application>XviD</application> or any
          CODEC in <filename class='libraryfile'>libavcodec</filename> with
          PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio.</para>

          <para>Example:</para>

<screen><userinput>rm frameno.avi
mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame \
-lameopts vbr=3 -o frameno.avi

<literal># mencoder should output bitrates for average encodings
# now, choose one you like best! In the following lines,
# replace &lt;bitrate&gt; and &lt;name.avi&gt; with statements of your
# personal liking.</literal>

mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac copy -ovc lavc \
    -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:vhq:vbitrate=&lt;bitrate&gt; \
    -o &lt;name.avi&gt;
mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac copy -ovc lavc \
    -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vhq:vbitrate=&lt;bitrate&gt; \
    -o &lt;name.avi&gt;
mencoder -forceidx &lt;name.avi&gt;</userinput></screen>
-->
          <indexterm zone="mplayer mencoder">
            <primary sortas="b-mencoder">mencoder</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
<!-- not installed anymore?
      <varlistentry id="libdha">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains functions used by the
          <application>MPlayer</application> programs.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mplayer libdha">
            <primary sortas="c-libdha">libdha.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
-->
<!-- not installed anymore
      <varlistentry id="libpostproc">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpostproc.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a post-processing filter library used by the
          <application>MPlayer</application> programs and other packages.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mplayer libpostproc">
            <primary sortas="c-libpostproc">libpostproc.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
-->
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>