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MPlayer is a powerful command-line media player.
Note
MPlayer is not very actively maintained anymore, but still alive. However, its fork MPV is active and it comes with some extra features too.
MPlayer is not very actively maintained anymore, but still alive. However, its fork MPV is active and it comes with some extra features too.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for media-video/mplayer Media Player for Linux
X
|
Add support for X11 |
a52
|
Enable support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD |
aalib
|
Add support for media-libs/aalib (ASCII-Graphics Library) |
alsa
|
Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) |
aqua
|
Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI |
bidi
|
Enable bidirectional language support |
bl
|
Blinkenlights video output |
bluray
|
Enable playback of Blu-ray filesystems |
bs2b
|
Enable Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural headphone filter |
cddb
|
Access cddb servers to retrieve and submit information about compact disks |
cdio
|
Use libcdio for CD support (instead of cdparanoia) |
cdparanoia
|
Enable cdparanoia (audio CD ripper) support |
cpudetection
|
Enables runtime CPU detection (useful for binpkgs, compatibility on other CPUs) |
debug
|
Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces |
dga
|
Add DGA (Direct Graphic Access) support for X |
doc
|
Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally |
dts
|
Enable DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder support |
dv
|
Enable support for a codec used by many camcorders |
dvb
|
Add support for DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) |
dvd
|
Add support for DVDs |
dvdnav
|
Use forked libdvdnav, navigate menus in GUIs |
enca
|
Enables support for charset discovery and conversion |
encode
|
Add support for encoding of audio or video files |
faac
|
Use external faac library for AAC encoding |
faad
|
Use external faad library for AAC decoding |
fbcon
|
Add framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel |
ftp
|
Add FTP (File Transfer Protocol) support |
ggi
|
Add support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers) |
gsm
|
Add support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec |
iconv
|
Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library |
ipv6
|
Add support for IP version 6 |
jack
|
Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit |
joystick
|
Add support for joysticks in all packages |
jpeg
|
Add JPEG image support |
ladspa
|
Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins |
libass
|
SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support |
libcaca
|
Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics |
libmpeg2
|
Build support for mpeg2 over media-libs/libmpeg2 rather than using ffmpeg. |
lirc
|
Add support for lirc (Linux's Infra-Red Remote Control) |
live
|
Enables live.com streaming media support |
lzo
|
Enable support for lzo compression |
mad
|
Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) |
md5sum
|
Enables md5sum video output |
mng
|
MNG input support |
mp3
|
Add support for reading mp3 files |
nas
|
Add support for network audio sound |
network
|
Enables network streaming support |
openal
|
Add support for the Open Audio Library |
opengl
|
Add support for OpenGL (3D graphics) |
osdmenu
|
Enables support for on-screen display (OSD) menus |
oss
|
Add support for OSS (Open Sound System) |
png
|
Add support for libpng (PNG images) |
pnm
|
Add PNM video output option, to create PPM/PGM/PGMYUV images |
pulseaudio
|
Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire) |
pvr
|
Enable Video4Linux2 MPEG PVR |
radio
|
Enable V4L2 radio interface and support |
rar
|
Enable Unique RAR File Library |
rtc
|
Enables usage of the linux real time clock. The alternative is software emulation of rtc |
rtmp
|
Enables RTMPDump Streaming Media support |
samba
|
Add support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing) |
sdl
|
Add support for Simple Direct Layer (media library) |
selinux
|
!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur |
shm
|
Enable support for shm |
speex
|
Add support for the speex audio codec (used for speech) |
tga
|
Enables Targa video output |
theora
|
Add support for the Theora Video Compression Codec |
toolame
|
Enable toolame MPEG-2 encoding |
tremor
|
Enable internal support for Vorbis |
truetype
|
Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts |
twolame
|
Enable twolame MPEG-2 encoding |
unicode
|
Add support for Unicode |
v4l
|
Enable support for video4linux (using linux-headers or userspace libv4l libraries) |
vcd
|
Enables VCD support |
vdpau
|
Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix acceleration interface |
vidix
|
Support for vidix video output |
vorbis
|
Add support for the OggVorbis audio codec |
x264
|
Enable h264 encoding using x264 |
xinerama
|
Add support for querying multi-monitor screen geometry through the Xinerama API |
xscreensaver
|
Add support for XScreenSaver extension |
xv
|
Add in optional support for the Xvideo extension (an X API for video playback) |
xvid
|
Add support for xvid.org's open-source mpeg-4 codec |
yuv4mpeg
|
Enables yuv4mpeg video output |
zoran
|
Enables ZR360[56]7/ZR36060 video output |
Emerge
Install media-video/mplayer:
root #emerge --ask media-video/mplayerConfiguration
GUI tools
There are a number of different GUI's for MPlayer with different levels of functionality. Some notable ones include:
Usage
Streaming videos from websites
MPlayer has the ability to stream videos from websites. As a prerequisite, media-video/ffmpeg must have the openssl and gnutls USE flags enabled. To do this, simply enter the command:
user $mplayer urlWhere url is the URL of the video.
Tips
Disable screensaver while playing a video
Using qdbus (Qt/KDE):
FILE
~/.mplayer/configheartbeat-cmd="qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver SimulateUserActivity"
For systems using xscreensaver alone:
FILE
~/.mplayer/configheartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &"
See this FAQ entry for more informations.
Troubleshooting
My video won't play!
MPlayer uses USE flags to enable and disable support for various codecs. If a particular type of file will not play in MPlayer, first check which USE flags MPlayer was emerged with. Update the USE flags to support for the format you are trying to play and recompile.