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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.bz2">
8 <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp "ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.bz2">
9 <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum "18c05d88e22c3b815a43ca8d7152ccdc">
10 <!ENTITY mplayer-size "8.3 MB">
11 <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize "133-250 MB (additional 22 MB for essential CODECs)">
12 <!ENTITY mplayer-time "1.2-2.5 SBU (depends on how FFmpeg is linked in)">
13
14 <!ENTITY mplayer-codec "essential-20061022.tar.bz2">
15 <!ENTITY mplayer-codec-md5sum "abcf4a3abc16cf88c9df7e0a77e9b941">
16 <!ENTITY mplayer-codec-size "10.0 MB">
17 <!ENTITY mplayer-alt-codec "all-20061022.tar.bz2">
18
19 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin "Blue-1.7.tar.bz2">
20 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "e4e2020d11b681aac898103b3ba723c4">
21 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size "222 KB">
22
23 <!ENTITY mplayer-font "font-arial-iso-8859-1">
24 <!ENTITY mplayer-font-md5sum "1ecd31d17b51f16332b1fcc7da36b312">
25 <!ENTITY mplayer-font-size "234 KB">
26]>
27
28<sect1 id="mplayer" xreflabel="MPlayer-&mplayer-version;">
29 <?dbhtml filename="mplayer.html"?>
30
31 <sect1info>
32 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
33 <date>$Date$</date>
34 </sect1info>
35
36 <title>MPlayer-&mplayer-version;</title>
37
38 <indexterm zone="mplayer">
39 <primary sortas="a-MPlayer">MPlayer</primary>
40 </indexterm>
41
42 <sect2 role="package">
43 <title>Introduction to MPlayer</title>
44
45 <para>The <application>MPlayer</application> package contains an
46 audio/video player controlled via the command line or graphical interface
47 which is able to play almost every popular audio and video file format and
48 CODEC (COder/DECoder, also COmpressor/DECompressor). With supported video
49 hardware and additional drivers, <application>MPlayer</application> can
50 play video files without an <application>X Window System</application>
51 installed.</para>
52
53 <para>For <application>MPlayer</application> general information and
54 available features, including a full list of file formats, CODECs and
55 output devices supported by <application>MPlayer</application>, visit the
56 <ulink url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html">
57 <application>MPlayer</application> web site</ulink>.</para>
58
59 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
60 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
61 <listitem>
62 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-download-http;"/></para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-download-ftp;"/></para>
66 </listitem>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-md5sum;</para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>Download size: &mplayer-size;</para>
72 </listitem>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>Estimated disk space required: &mplayer-buildsize;</para>
75 </listitem>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Estimated build time: &mplayer-time;</para>
78 </listitem>
79 </itemizedlist>
80
81 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
82
83 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
84 <title>Patches</title>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Required Patch: <ulink
87 url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/cddb_fix_20070605.diff"/></para>
88 </listitem>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>Required Patch: <ulink
91 url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-ext_ffmpeg-1.patch"/></para>
92 </listitem>
93 </itemizedlist>
94
95 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
96 <title>CODECs</title>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Proprietary CODECs: <ulink
99 url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/&mplayer-codec;"/></para>
100 </listitem>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-codec-md5sum;</para>
103 </listitem>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>Download size: &mplayer-codec-size;</para>
106 </listitem>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>Alternate CODECs (provides additional functionality and is a
109 larger file): <ulink
110 url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/&mplayer-alt-codec;"/></para>
111 </listitem>
112 <listitem><para>Additional CODECs: <ulink
113 url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/"/></para>
114 </listitem>
115 </itemizedlist>
116
117 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
118 <title>Skins</title>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>Default GUI skin: <ulink
121 url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/&mplayer-skin;"/></para>
122 </listitem>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum;</para>
125 </listitem>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>Download size: &mplayer-skin-size;</para>
128 </listitem>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>Additional skins: <ulink
131 url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/"/></para>
132 </listitem>
133 </itemizedlist>
134
135 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
136 <title>Fonts</title>
137 <listitem>
138 <para>Prerendered fonts: <ulink
139 url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/&mplayer-font;.tar.bz2"/></para>
140 </listitem>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-font-md5sum;</para>
143 </listitem>
144 <listitem>
145 <para>Download size: &mplayer-font-size;</para>
146 </listitem>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>Additional fonts: <ulink
149 url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/"/></para>
150 </listitem>
151 </itemizedlist>
152
153 <para>The CODECs, skins and fonts are not required to
154 build and use <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
155
156 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MPlayer Dependencies</bridgehead>
157
158 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
159 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
160 <ulink url="http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/">DVB</ulink>,
161 <ulink url="http://www.linuxtv.org/">DVB drivers</ulink>,
162 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>,
163 <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
164 <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
165 <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/mplayer/">LIVE555 Streaming Media</ulink>,
166 <xref linkend="samba3"/>, and
167 <ulink url="http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/vstream-client/">TiVo vstream client</ulink></para>
168 <!-- Disabling for now as only internal Matroska support is available
169 <ulink url="http://www.matroska.org/downloads/linux.html">libmatroska</ulink>
170 (requires
171 <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/">libebml</ulink>), -->
172
173 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Output Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
174 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="alsa"/>,
175 <xref linkend="arts"/>,
176 <xref linkend="esound"/>,
177 <ulink url="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</ulink>,
178 <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/">LADSPA</ulink>,
179 <xref linkend="nas"/>,
180 <ulink url="http://openal.org/">OpenAL</ulink>,
181 <ulink url="http://pulseaudio.org/">PulseAudio</ulink>,
182 <xref linkend="sdl"/> (also used for video output), and
183 <xref linkend="xmms"/></para>
184
185 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Output Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
186 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="aalib"/>,
187 <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
188 <ulink url="http://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/">Enca</ulink>,
189 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
190 <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
191 <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
192 <ulink url="http://www.ggi-project.org/">GGI</ulink>,
193 <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
194 <xref linkend="gtk2"/> or
195 <xref linkend="GTK"/>,
196 <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">libcaca</ulink>,
197 <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
198 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
199 <ulink url="http://maemo.org/">maemo</ulink>,
200 <ulink url="http://vidix.sourceforge.net/">VIDIX</ulink>,
201 <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>, and
202 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/unichrome/">XvMC Wrapper</ulink>
203 (only needed if you have XFree86 installed)</para>
204
205 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
206 <para role="optional"><ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-7/26_series/26104-700.zip">AMR
207 narrowband (floating point)</ulink> or
208 <ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-7/26_series/26073-700.zip">AMR
209 naarrowband (fixed point)</ulink>,
210 <ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-7/26_series/26204-700.zip">
211 AMR wideband</ulink>,
212 <!-- Dead link <ulink url="http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/">DivX</ulink>, i-->
213 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac">FAAC</ulink>,
214 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac">FAAD2</ulink> (must disable the internal version),
215 <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
216 <xref linkend="lame"/>,
217 <ulink url="http://developers.videolan.org/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
218 <xref linkend="libfame"/>,
219 <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
220 <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">libmpcdec</ulink>,
221 <ulink url="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/src/trunk/">libnut</ulink> (SVN checkout),
222 <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
223 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>,
224 <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.cjb.net/~fredrik/lirccd/">lirccd</ulink>,
225 <xref linkend="LZO"/> (requires
226 <ulink url="http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/LZO-v1/lzo-1.08.tar.gz">Version 1</ulink>),
227 <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink>,
228 <ulink url="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</ulink>,
229 <ulink url="ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.2/contrib/toolame-02m-beta8.tar.bz2">tooLAME</ulink>,
230 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/twolame/">TwoLAME</ulink>,
231 <ulink url="http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/">Tremor</ulink> (requires
232 <xref linkend="libvorbis"/> and you must disable the internal version),
233 <ulink url="http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html">x264</ulink>, and
234 <xref linkend="xvid"/></para>
235
236 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Hardware Specific Options</bridgehead>
237 <para>There is hardware specific packages (or vendor supplied software) you
238 can install to improve the performance of your video card when using
239 <application>MPlayer</application>. Some of the packages and/or vendor
240 supplied software and the <application>MPlayer</application> specific
241 driver created if it is found is shown here.</para>
242
243 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
244 <listitem>
245 <para>mga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 hardware YUV overlay via the
246 mga_vid device</para>
247 </listitem>
248 <listitem>
249 <para>xmga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 overlay (mga_vid) in X11
250 window</para>
251 </listitem>
252 <listitem>
253 <para>syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer</para>
254 </listitem>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>3dfx: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support (/dev/3dfx)</para>
257 </listitem>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>tdfxfb: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx
260 framebuffer</para>
261 </listitem>
262 <listitem>
263 <para>mpegpes: support for Siemens DVB hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
264 (or MPEG-PES file output)</para>
265 </listitem>
266 <listitem>
267 <para>dxr2: support for DXR2 hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
268 <ulink url="http://dxr2.sourceforge.net/">Dxr2</ulink></para>
269 </listitem>
270 <listitem>
271 <para>dxr3: support for DXR3/Hollywood+ hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder
272 boards <ulink
273 url="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/">libdxr3</ulink></para>
274 </listitem>
275 <listitem>
276 <para>zr: support for Zoran360[56]7 based hardware MJPEG cards</para>
277 </listitem>
278 </itemizedlist>
279
280 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
281 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mplayer"/></para>
282
283 </sect2>
284
285 <sect2 role="installation">
286 <title>Installation of MPlayer</title>
287
288 <sect3>
289 <title>CODEC Installation (Optional)</title>
290
291 <para>If you downloaded any proprietary CODECs (which can provide support
292 for additional audio and video formats such as Real, Indeo and QuickTime),
293 extract them to <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</filename>
294 using the following commands as the <systemitem
295 class="username">root</systemitem> user (substitute and/or add different
296 CODEC filenames, if necessary):</para>
297
298<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs &amp;&amp;
299tar -xvf ../&mplayer-codec; \
300 -C /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --strip-components=1 &amp;&amp;
301chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</userinput></screen>
302
303 <para>If you installed any CODECs, ensure you add
304 <option>--with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</option>
305 to the <command>configure</command> script.</para>
306
307 </sect3>
308
309 <sect3>
310 <title>GUI Installation (Optional)</title>
311
312 <para>To enable building the GUI version of
313 <application>MPlayer</application> (requires <xref linkend="gtk2"/> or
314 <xref linkend="GTK"/>), add <option>--enable-gui</option> to the
315 <command>configure</command> script. You'll also need to extract at least
316 one skin. Extract the desired skin and create the default location (as
317 the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):</para>
318
319<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &amp;&amp;
320tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin; \
321 -C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &amp;&amp;
322chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue &amp;&amp;
323chmod -v 755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue{,/icons} &amp;&amp;
324ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default</userinput></screen>
325
326 </sect3>
327
328 <sect3>
329 <title>Installing OSD and Subtitles Support (Optional)</title>
330
331 <para>To enable OSD (On Screen Display) and subtitles support, add
332 <option>--enable-menu</option> to the <command>configure</command>
333 script. You'll also need to set up at least one font (see font
334 installation instructions a little later).</para>
335
336 </sect3>
337
338 <sect3>
339 <title>Main MPlayer Installation</title>
340
341 <note>
342 <para>The package maintainers recommend building without any
343 optimizations.</para>
344 </note>
345
346 <para><application>MPlayer</application> can build a shared
347 post-processing library from the internal
348 <application>FFmpeg</application> package which
349 other packages can link to. This requires
350 <application>MPlayer</application>
351 to link dynamically to this library instead of the default statically
352 linked method. If you desire to build the shared library, add
353 <option>--enable-shared-pp</option> to the <command>configure</command>
354 script. Note that the <application>FFmpeg</application> package can also
355 build this library (which <application>MPlayer</application> can link to
356 instead of building it), ensure you don't overwrite an existing one.</para>
357
358 <para>You may wish to examine the output from
359 <command>./configure --help</command> to find out what additional
360 parameters to <command>configure</command> are needed to include
361 the dependencies you have installed on your system. To link in existing
362 <application>FFmpeg</application> libraries (and
363 <application>MPlayer</application> won't have to build them), you must
364 pass a total of nine additional options to the
365 <command>configure</command> script. Four to disable building the static
366 <application>FFmpeg</application> libraries, four to enable using the
367 system-installed shared libraries and
368 <option>--with-extraincdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg</option> so the build can
369 locate the <application>FFmpeg</application> interface headers.</para>
370
371 <para>Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following
372 commands:</para>
373
374<screen><userinput>patch -Np0 -i ../cddb_fix_20070605.diff &amp;&amp;
375patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-ext_ffmpeg.patch &amp;&amp;
376
377./configure --prefix=/usr \
378 --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
379 --enable-largefiles \
380 --enable-dynamic-plugins &amp;&amp;
381make</userinput></screen>
382
383 <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
384
385 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
386
387<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
388
389install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; &amp;&amp;
390cp -v -R DOCS/* /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</userinput></screen>
391
392 <para>Passing certain parameters to <command>configure</command> may
393 result in the creation of
394 <filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so.1.0</filename>. If so, you may
395 wish to create a symlink to this library in case other packages link to
396 <filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so</filename>. Use the following
397 command as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to
398 create the symbolic link:</para>
399
400<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -v -s libdha.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libdha.so</userinput></screen>
401
402 <para>You will need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> only if you want to
403 change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of
404 it. Ensure any changes you make to <filename>codecs.conf</filename>
405 achieve the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been
406 known to cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary,
407 create the file using the following command.</para>
408
409<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
410
411 <para>You may also want to copy all the default configuration files to
412 <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future reference
413 or more customization ability.</para>
414
415<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
416
417 <para><application>MPlayer</application> requires that the RTC run at a
418 frequency of 1024 Hz. Make this setting change at boot-time by adding
419 a line to <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>:</para>
420
421<screen role="root"><userinput>echo "dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" >> /etc/sysctl.conf</userinput></screen>
422
423 </sect3>
424
425 <sect3>
426 <title>OSD and Subtitles Font Installation (Required if '--enable-menu' Was
427 Passed to 'configure')</title>
428
429 <para>The recommended method to set up a font for
430 <application>MPlayer</application> is to link a TTF file to
431 your <filename class="directory">~/.mplayer</filename> directory. A link
432 should be created in each user's home directory who may use
433 <application>MPlayer</application>. For example:</para>
434
435<screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d ~/.mplayer &amp;&amp;
436ln -v -sf /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF/luxisri.ttf \
437 ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</userinput></screen>
438
439 <para>There are several other ways to set up a font package. To use a
440 prerendered <application>MPlayer</application> font package, extract
441 and link one of the font tarballs using the following commands:</para>
442
443<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-font;.tar.bz2 \
444 -C /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
445chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
446cd /usr/share/mplayer/font &amp;&amp;
447ln -v -sf &mplayer-font;/font-arial-<replaceable>&lt;font size&gt;</replaceable>-iso-8859-1/* .</userinput></screen>
448
449 <para>Available font sizes are 14, 18, 24 or 28.</para>
450
451 <para>Additional information as well as additional methods to set up an
452 <application>MPlayer</application> font package can be found at <ulink
453 url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/subosd.html#mpsub-install"/>.</para>
454
455 </sect3>
456
457 <!--
458 Following section should be removed after BLFS-6.2.
459 Current Udev creates persistent cd/dvd links automatically
460 <sect3>
461 <title>Installation for DVD Playback (Optional)</title>
462
463 <para>If you want DVD playback with <application>MPlayer</application>,
464 you need to ensure a link exists between your DVD drive and
465 <filename>/dev/dvd</filename>. This process is described in the
466 <ulink url="&lfs-root;/chapter07/symlinks.html">Creating custom
467 symlinks to devices</ulink> section in LFS. The user must be part
468 of the <systemitem class="groupname">cdrom</systemitem> group in
469 order to use the device.</para>
470
471 </sect3>
472 -->
473
474 </sect2>
475
476 <sect2 role="configuration">
477 <title>Configuring MPlayer</title>
478
479 <sect3 id="mplayer-config">
480 <title>Config Files</title>
481
482 <para><filename>/etc/mplayer/*</filename> and
483 <filename>~/.mplayer/*</filename></para>
484
485 <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
486 <primary sortas="e-AA.mplayer">~/.mplayer/*</primary>
487 </indexterm>
488
489 <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
490 <primary sortas="e-etc-mplayer">/etc/mplayer/*</primary>
491 </indexterm>
492
493 </sect3>
494
495 <sect3>
496 <title>Configuration Information</title>
497
498 <para>Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide
499 files in <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> (in fact,
500 this directory is empty unless you copied the default files as mentioned
501 above). Configuration can be accomplished by choosing the configuration
502 button located on the <application>MPlayer</application> GUI. Any
503 configuration changes made here will be copied to the user's
504 <filename class='directory'>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.</para>
505
506 </sect3>
507
508 </sect2>
509
510 <sect2 role="content">
511 <title>Contents</title>
512
513 <segmentedlist>
514 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
515 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
516 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
517
518 <seglistitem>
519 <seg>gmplayer, mplayer, and mencoder</seg>
520 <seg>libdha.so and optionally, libpostproc.so</seg>
521 <seg>~/.mplayer, /etc/mplayer, /usr/include/postproc, /usr/lib/mplayer,
522 /usr/share/mplayer, and /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</seg>
523 </seglistitem>
524 </segmentedlist>
525
526 <variablelist>
527 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
528 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
529 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
530
531 <varlistentry id="gmplayer">
532 <term><command>gmplayer</command></term>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>is a symlink to <command>mplayer</command> which
535 brings up the graphical user interface component of
536 <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
537 <indexterm zone="mplayer gmplayer">
538 <primary sortas="b-gmplayer">gmplayer</primary>
539 </indexterm>
540 </listitem>
541 </varlistentry>
542
543 <varlistentry id="mplayer-prog">
544 <term><command>mplayer</command></term>
545 <listitem>
546 <para> manages the input formats, the CODECs and
547 the output formats to play video files, DVDs,
548 (S)VCDs or network streams containing audio and/or video
549 information on your system.</para>
550
551 <para>Examples:</para>
552
553<screen><userinput>mplayer -fs blfs.avi
554mplayer -vo fbdev -fb /dev/fb0 dvd://1 \
555 -aid 128 -sub en -framedrop
556mplayer -fs vcd://1 # works both for VCDs and SVCDs
557mplayer http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.mpg</userinput></screen>
558
559 <para>For further information, look at the very good documentation
560 included with the package in the source tree subdirectory
561 <filename class="directory">DOCS</filename> (also installed at
562 <filename class='directory'>/usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</filename>).</para>
563
564 <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-prog">
565 <primary sortas="b-mplayer">mplayer</primary>
566 </indexterm>
567 </listitem>
568 </varlistentry>
569
570 <varlistentry id="mencoder">
571 <term><command>mencoder</command></term>
572 <listitem>
573 <para>is used to encode any <application>MPlayer</application>
574 playable movie to DivX4, <application>XviD</application> or any
575 CODEC in <filename class='libraryfile'>libavcodec</filename> with
576 PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio.</para>
577
578 <para>Example:</para>
579
580<screen><userinput>rm frameno.avi
581mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame \
582-lameopts vbr=3 -o frameno.avi
583
584<literal># mencoder should output bitrates for average encodings
585# now, choose one you like best! In the following lines,
586# replace &lt;bitrate&gt; and &lt;name.avi&gt; with statements of your
587# personal liking.</literal>
588
589mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac copy -ovc lavc \
590 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:vhq:vbitrate=&lt;bitrate&gt; \
591 -o &lt;name.avi&gt;
592mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac copy -ovc lavc \
593 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vhq:vbitrate=&lt;bitrate&gt; \
594 -o &lt;name.avi&gt;
595mencoder -forceidx &lt;name.avi&gt;</userinput></screen>
596 <indexterm zone="mplayer mencoder">
597 <primary sortas="b-mencoder">mencoder</primary>
598 </indexterm>
599 </listitem>
600 </varlistentry>
601
602 <varlistentry id="libdha">
603 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so</filename></term>
604 <listitem>
605 <para>contains functions used by the
606 <application>MPlayer</application> programs.</para>
607 <indexterm zone="mplayer libdha">
608 <primary sortas="c-libdha">libdha.so</primary>
609 </indexterm>
610 </listitem>
611 </varlistentry>
612
613 <varlistentry id="libpostproc">
614 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpostproc.so</filename></term>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>is a post-processing filter library used by the
617 <application>MPlayer</application> programs and other packages.</para>
618 <indexterm zone="mplayer libpostproc">
619 <primary sortas="c-libpostproc">libpostproc.so</primary>
620 </indexterm>
621 </listitem>
622 </varlistentry>
623
624 </variablelist>
625
626 </sect2>
627
628</sect1>
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