MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library).

Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.

MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (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). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.





Supported Input Formats

(S)VCD (Super Video CD) 
CDRwin's .bin image file 
DVD, including encrypted DVD 
MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB) 
RIFF AVI file format 
ASF/WMV/WMA format 
QT/MOV/MP4 format 
RealAudio/RealVideo format 
Ogg/OGM files 
VIVO format 
FLI format 
NuppelVideo format 
yuv4mpeg format 
FILM (.cpk) format 
RoQ format 
PVA format 
Matroska 
NSV - Nullsoft Streaming Video 
streaming via http, RTP, RTSP, mms, mmst, mpst, sdp 
TV 


Supported Video and Audio Codecs

most important video codecs:
MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video 
MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD 
Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2) 
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL) 
RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2) 
RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries) 
Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs 
DV video 
3ivx 
Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2) 
Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs) 
VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL) 
MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats 
FLI/FLC 
HuffYUV 
various old simple RLE-like formats 



KEYBOARD CONTROL


general control
  <- and ->
       seek backward/forward 10 seconds
  up and down
       seek backward/forward  1 minute
  pgup and pgdown
       seek backward/forward 10 minutes
  < and >
       backward/forward in playlist
  HOME and END
       go  to  next/previous playtree entry in the parent list
  INS and DEL
       go to next/previous alternative source (asx playlist only)
  p / SPACE
       pause movie (any key unpauses)
  q / ESC
       stop playing and quit
  + and -
       adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
  / and *
       decrease/increase volume
  9 and 0
       decrease/increase volume
  m
       mute sound
  f
       toggle fullscreen
  T
       toggle  stay-on-top
  w and e
       decrease/increase panscan range
  o
       toggle  between  OSD  states: none / seek / seek+timer
  d
       toggle between frame dropping states:  off / on / hard
  v
       toggle subtitle visibility
  j
       switch subtitle language
  F
       toggle display of "forced subtitles"
  a
       toggle subtitle aligment: top/middle/bottom
  z and x
       adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
  r and t
       adjust subtitle position
  i
               set EDL mark

(The  following  keys are valid only when using a hardware
accelerated video output (xv, (x)vidix, (x)mga,  etc),  or
the software equalizer filter (-vf eq or -vf eq2).

  1 and 2
       adjust contrast
  3 and 4
       adjust brightness
  5 and 6
       adjust hue
  7 and 8
       adjust saturation