NAME
mplayer - movie player
mencoder - movie encoder
SYNOPSIS
mplayer [options] [file|URL|playlist|-]
mplayer [options] file1 [specific options] [file2] [specific options]
mplayer [options] {group of files and options} [group-specific options]
mplayer [dvd|dvdnav]://[title|[start_title]-end_title] [options]
mplayer vcd://track[/device]
mplayer tv://[channel][/input_id] [options]
mplayer radio://[channel|frequency][/capture] [options]
mplayer pvr:// [options]
mplayer dvb://[card_number@]channel [options]
mplayer mf://[filemask|@listfile] [-mf options] [options]
mplayer [cdda|cddb]://track[-endtrack][:speed][/device] [options]
mplayer cue://file[:track] [options]
mplayer sdp://file [options]
mplayer mpst://host[:port]/URL [options]
mplayer tivo://host/[list|llist|fsid] [options]
gmplayer [options] [-skin skin]
mencoder [options] file [file|URL|-] [-o file | file://file | smb://[user:pass@]host/filepath]
mencoder [options] file1 [specific options] [file2] [specific options]
DESCRIPTION
mplayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other platforms and CPU architectures, see the docu-
mentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, Ogg/OGM, MKV, VIVO, FLI, Nup-
pelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files, supported by many native and binary codecs. You can watch Video
CD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too.
MPlayer supports a wide range of video and audio output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL,
SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, libcaca, DirectFB, Quartz, Mac OS X CoreVideo, but you can also use GGI, SDL (and
all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA-compatible card, even without X11), some low-level card-specific
drivers (for Matrox, 3dfx and ATI) and some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, Haup-
pauge PVR (IVTV), DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you
can enjoy movies in fullscreen mode.
MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and
visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic
and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami,
VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub) and DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and
Closed Captions).
mencoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
(see above) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It encodes to MPEG-4 (DivX/Xvid), one of the
libavcodec codecs and PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio in 1, 2 or 3 passes. Furthermore it has stream copying abil-
ities, a powerful filter system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, noise, RGB/YUV conver-
sion) and more.
gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface. It has the same options as MPlayer.
Usage examples to get you started quickly can be found at the end of this man page.
http://bashconsole.org/man.1.mplayerhttp://bashconsole.org/man.1.mencoder
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