%general-entities; ]> $Date$ MPlayer MPlayer 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, MPlayer can play video files without an X Window System installed. The latest stable version was released in April 2019. That version no longer builds properly with the latest build tools and system libraries. The version below is a snapshot that may not be available on the upstream server but was uploaded to our file server. If you want to test a later version, check . &lfs110a_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-md5sum; Download size: &mplayer-size; Estimated disk space required: &mplayer-buildsize; Estimated build time: &mplayer-time; Additional Downloads GUI skin (HTTP): GUI skin (FTP): Skin MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum; Skin size: &mplayer-skin-size; Alternative skins: Skins are only required in order to use the Gtk+ 2 user interface. MPlayer Dependencies Required Recommended , , and Optional Input Drivers and Libraries , (to identify and play CDs), , , , , libbluray, LIVE555 Streaming Media, RTMPDump, TiVo vstream client, and XMMS Optional Audio Output Drivers and Libraries , , , JACK, NAS, and OpenAL Optional Video Output Drivers and Libraries , , , , , OpenJPEG1 DirectFB, libcaca, and SVGAlib Optional CODECs , , , , , , , , , , , , , , CrystalHD, Dirac, GSM, iLBC, libdca, libnut, libmpcdec, OpenCore Adaptive Multi Rate, Schroedinger, Tremor, and TwoLAME Optional Miscellaneous Dependencies , , , , , and ; , and (all three required to build the HTML documentation); and Enca, libbs2b, and LIRC (and LIRC Client Daemon) User Notes: The package maintainers recommend building without any optimizations. You may wish to examine the output from ./configure --help to find out what additional parameters to configure are needed to include the dependencies you have installed on your system. Install MPlayer by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --confdir=/etc/mplayer \ --enable-dynamic-plugins \ --disable-libmpeg2-internal \ --disable-ffmpeg_a \ --enable-menu \ --enable-runtime-cpudetection \ --enable-gui && make If you wish to build the HTML documentation, issue the following command: make doc This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make install && ln -svf ../icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/mplayer.png \ /usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.png To install the HTML documentation, issue the following commands as the root user: install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; && install -v -m644 DOCS/HTML/en/* \ /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; You will only need codecs.conf if you want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of it. Ensure any changes you make to codecs.conf 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 root user: install -v -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration files to /etc/mplayer for future reference or more customization ability. As the root user: install -v -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer To enable the Gtk+ 2 frontend of MPlayer, you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and create the default location (as the root user): tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2 \ -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins && ln -sfvn Clearlooks /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default --enable-gui: This option builds the GUI interface into mplayer. --enable-menu: This option is set to enable the on-screen display. --enable-runtime-cpudetection: This option makes MPlayer run with a generic CPU type, preventing optimizations that may cause runtime problems. --disable-ffmpeg_a: You can use this option if you have installed . Dynamically linking to a system installed FFmpeg makes MPlayer and Mencoder about 9MB smaller. --disable-libmpeg2-internal: This option makes MPlayer run with a system version of libmpeg2. --language-doc="<lang>": This switch enables the language used for the documentation. Use ./configure --help for more information. --language-man="<lang>": This switch enables the language used for the man pages. Use ./configure --help for more information. --language-msg="<lang>": This switch enables the language used for the messages and the GUI. Use ./configure --help for more information --language="<lang>": This switch defines the default language used. Use ./configure --help for more information. Specific options override --language. You can pass a list of languages separated by whitespace or commas instead of a single language. Nonexisting translations will be dropped from each list. All documentation and man page translations available in the list will be installed, for the messages the first available translation will be used. The value "all" will activate all translations. The LINGUAS environment variable is honored. In all cases the fallback is English. Values listed by ./configure --help are not all available, as would normally be expected. You need to build test. /etc/mplayer/* and ~/.mplayer/* To play a DVD, it may be useful to ensure a /dev/dvd device is created. You may need to set this up as described in . ~/.mplayer/* /etc/mplayer/* Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide files in /etc/mplayer (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 MPlayer GUI. Any configuration changes made in the GUI will be saved in the user's ~/.mplayer directory. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories gmplayer, mplayer and mencoder None /etc/mplayer, /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; and /usr/share/mplayer Short Descriptions gmplayer is a symlink to mplayer which brings up the GTK+ 2 frontend of MPlayer gmplayer mplayer is the main MPlayer video player mplayer mencoder 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) mencoder