Free mplayer software for linux

MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). MPlayer 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.
Main features:
- (S)VCD (Super Video CD)
- CDRwins .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:
- 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
- MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
- AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
- AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
- WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
- WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
- RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
- RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
- QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries)
- Ogg Vorbis audio
- VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
- alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio format

XMMPlayer is an input plugin for XMMS that allows you to play video files from within XMMS using MPlayer as a back-end. Easy, plain and simple. Just add the files you wish to play to the XMMS playlist and hit "play".
XMMPlayer currently detects AVI/MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia, .BIN and ASF(WMV, WMA) files by identifying them using file-signatures ("magic"). OGG movies are detected by their extension (".OGM").
Please remember that is product is still in beta-stage and may not work on all systems and with all video files MPlayer supports. See the README section below for more info.
Main features:
- local file playback of AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and OGG movies using
- MPlayer
- playback of HTTP and MMS media streams (see below)
- Playback of (individual) VCD tracks or DVD titles (see below)
- Shows info (length, audio-(nit)rate / channels) in XMMS
- uses magic to detect AVI, MPEG, RealMedia and QuickTime movies (checks for .ogm extension to detect OGG movies, this to avoid MPlayer playing OGG sound files, which have the same magic identifier)
- pause and seek in files from within xmms
- Constant, skinned and dockable video window (can be turned off in options)

GNOME Mplayer project is a simple GUI frontend for Mplayer.

It is based heavily on the mplayerplug-in source code and can basically be seen as a standalone version of that. Currently it is a test bed for new methods of operation for mplayerplug-in and so it may be broken or lacking many features. I use it as my default viewer for media on my personal machine.

To set GNOME Mplayer as the default player for mms and rtsp protocols in Mozilla/Firefox add this to your prefs.js file

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mms", "/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp", "/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer");

Or open the "about:config" location and create new string settings with the above values.

mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play digital media from websites.

This plug-in gives Mozilla the ability to play media from a website the net without reading the source html and getting the url manually.

Media is played embedded in the page or in a separate window depending on how the author of the webpage intended the media to be seen.

Mplayer-video-thumbnailer is a shell script for thumbnails preview in nautilus.

A shell script which can ganrate thumbnails of video files in nautilus using mplayer.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.

VDR MP3 plugin adds sound playback capability to VDR by Klaus Schmidinger.

Supported audio codecs:

- libmad Supports MPEG-1/2/2.5 with layers 1/2/3.
- libsndfile Supports MS WAV/A-law/u-law; Apple/SGI AIFF/AIFC; Sun/NeXT AU/SND; Amiga IFF/8SVX/16SV and more.
- libvorbis Supports Vorbis/Ogg.

The MP3 plugin is distributed as a dual-plugin together with the MPlayer plugin. The different audio codecs require additional support libraries.

VDR MPlayer plugin adds the ability to call MPlayer from within VDR (by Klaus Schmidinger), allowing to replay all video formats supported by MPlayer over your DVB card.

Note: for most formats MPlayer has to do on-the-fly transcoding to MPEG1. This requires a decent CPU to work (>1Ghz). It may work with slower CPUs if you tune down the transcoding quality.

The MPlayer plugin is distributed as a dual-plugin together with the MP3 plugin.