Mplayer
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Mplayer
MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
MPlayer supports a wide variety of media formats[3] and can also save all streamed content to a file.
A companion program, MEncoder, can take an input stream or file and transcode it into several different output formats, optionally applying various transforms along the way.
MPlayer is a command line application which has different optional GUI front-ends for each of its supported operating systems. Commonly used GUIs are gMplayer written in GTK+. Cross-platform GUIs are also available, like Smplayer. Several other GUI front-ends are also available for each platform.
Installation
Use
MPlayer can be used in different ways :
- with the graphical interface
- with the command line. Only the video is sisplayed in a window. Example:
Interfaces pour KDE
Interface pour GNOME
Watch TV with mplayer
The package mplayertv will permit you to watch tv, to install it:
plugin mplayer for web browsers
- Remove all others plugins (if presents)
Under GNOME, remove totem plugin:
Under KDE, remove the kaffeine plugin:
- Install the mplayer plugin:
Subtitles
The subtitles file (mostly .srt) have to be the same filename as the video file. When playing the video, subtitles willbe displayed automatically.
To move down the subtitle try:
mplayer -vf expand=-1:-100:0:0 fichier.avi
or adding into file ./mplayer/config, this line
vf=expand=-1:-100:0:0
Catch streaming video on internet
You can record a streaming video with a command like taht:
mplayer http://site.com/video.rm -dumpstream -dumpfile fichier.rm
Links
Official Website: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/