mplayer usage examples

By xngo on June 23, 2019

Usage

#Playing ISO DVD with mplayer
mplayer -dvd-device movie.iso dvd://1
 
#Play DVD on the G: drive
mplayer -fs dvd:// -dvd-device G:
 
# At runtime, press # to change language
 
#Play mediafile in loop
mplayer -loop 0 mediafile
 
#Play at a specific interval of a video
mplayer -ss 1:33:28 -endpos 1:50:15 -loop 0 <file>
  • http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD
  • http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30795&highlight=&sid=cb160b6162717a3e00783d228945f1e3
  • http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17783
  • http://bamos.github.io/2014/07/05/mpv-shell-rc/ (Improving mpv as a music player with Bash/Zsh shell functions)

Install Codecs

  1. Download Windows x86 xxxx from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
  2. Create a codecs folder 
    mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
  3. Decompress the download archive and copy all files to /usr/lib/codecs 
    unzip windows-essential-20071007.zip
cd windows-essential-20071007
cp * /usr/lib/codecs

Example of config file

If you use gmplayer, you can do it the preferences dialog, if not you should edit ~/.mplayer/config.
 
The settings for the config file are: subfont-autoscale and subfont-text-scale. Check the man pages (http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/docs/mplayer-man.html) for the values they can take.
 
As an example here's the part about subtitles in my config file:
#==========
# Subtitles
#==========
 
# VobSubs
#========
 
# Align VobSubs (-1: as they want to align themselves)
spualign=-1
 
# Anti-alias VobSubs (4: best and slowest)
spuaa=4
 
# Default VobSub language to select
slang=fi,fin,en,eng
 
 
# Text-based subtitles
#=====================
 
# Find subtitle files (1: load all subs containing movie name)
sub-fuzziness=1
 
# Font
font=/home/osmo/.fonts/sapientsans/Sapi005.ttf
 
# Font encoding
subfont-encoding=unicode
 
# Subtitle file encoding
utf8=yes
 
# Resample the font alphamap (10: bold black outline)
ffactor=10
 
# Subtitle position (100: as low as possible)
subpos=100
 
# Subtitle alignment at its position (2: bottom)
subalign=2
 
# Font size (2: proportional to movie width)
subfont-autoscale=2
 
# Font blur radius (default: 2)
subfont-blur=1.0
 
# font outline thickness (default: 2)
subfont-outline=1.0
 
# Autoscale coefficient of the subtitle (default: 5)
subfont-text-scale=4.0
 
# OSD
#====
 
# Autoscale coefficient of the OSD elements (default: 6)
subfont-osd-scale=4.2


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To check: /usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv -ao alsa -zoom -nokeepaspect -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 83886090 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -aid 1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -nocache -ss 1275 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -vf-add eq2,hue -channels 2 -af scaletempo -softvol -softvol-max 110 /media/some_videos_dvd/funny_video.avi

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1154431

#Squeeze
echo "deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free" >>/etc/apt/sources.list
aptitude update
aptitude -y install w32codecs libdvdcss2 mplayer
Mplayer

About the author

Xuan Ngo is the founder of OpenWritings.net. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada. He loves to write about programming and open source subjects.