source: multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml@ c3c56b2

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
    "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp
    "ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum        "ac7bf1cfedc1c5c24bfc83107eefb1d9">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-size          "11 MB">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize     "183 MB (120 MB using system-installed FFMpeg)">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-time          "4 SBU (1.5 SBU using system-installed FFMpeg)">

  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin          "Clearlooks-1.5">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-download-http
    "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-download-ftp
    "ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum   "6b046a78fb15b243dc1eb5884276a750">
  <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size     "40 KB">
]>

<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>
      <application>MPlayer</application> is a powerful audio/video player
      controlled via the command line or a graphical interface that 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>

    &lfs72_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>Skins</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          GUI skin (HTTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-skin-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>GUI skin (FTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-skin-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Skin MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Skin size: &mplayer-skin-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Alternative skins:
          <ulink url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <note>
      <para>
        Skins are only required to use the Gtk+ 2 user interface.
      </para>
    </note>

    <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="gtk2"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
      <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
      <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
      <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
      <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
      <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>
    </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"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
      <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">libcaca</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjpeg"/> and
      <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
      <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="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> and
      <ulink url="http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=NUT">libnut</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Miscellaneous Dependencies</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://cihar.com/software/enca/">Enca</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
      <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/> (required for the GUI),
      <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="unrar"/>, and
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
      <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and
      <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> (all three 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>

    <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>If you wish to rebuild the chunked HTML documentation and build
      a non-chunked HTML version of the docs, issue the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>make doc</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</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        To install the HTML documentation, issue the following commands as the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    DOCS/HTML/en/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        You will only need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> 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 as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
        user:
      </para>

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

      <para>
        You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration files
        to <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future
        reference or more customization ability. As the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
    </sect3>

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

      <para>
        To enable the Gtk+ 2 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;.tar.bz2 \
       -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv Clearlooks /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default</userinput></screen>
    </sect3>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-gui</parameter>: This option builds the GUI interface
      into <command>mplayer</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-menu</parameter>: This option is set to enable the
      on-screen display.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-ffmpeg_a</option>: You can use this option if you have
      installed <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>. MPlayer includes a copy of the FFmpeg
      source and without this option it will statically compile the included
      version of FFmpeg into itself. Dynamically linking to a system installed
      FFmpeg makes MPlayer and Mencoder about 9MB smaller. If MPlayer exhibits
      unstable behavior linked to a system installed FFmpeg, try recompiling MPlayer
      without this option (it is always more thoroughly tested with the included
      FFmpeg).
    </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+ 2 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>
          <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 that is useful for (amongst other things) ripping DVDs to files
            on your hard disk (see
            /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;/mencoder.html)
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="mplayer mencoder">
            <primary sortas="b-mencoder">mencoder</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
</sect1>