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MPlayer(1) MPlayer(1) NAME mplayer - Movie Player for Linux mencoder - Movie Encoder for Linux SYNOPSIS mplayer [options] [ file | URL | playlist | - ] mplayer [global options] file1 [specific options] [file2] [specific options] mplayer [global options] {group of files and options} [group specific options] mplayer [dvd|vcd|cdda|cddb|tv]://title [options] mplayer [mms[t]|http|http_proxy|rt[s]p]:// [user:passwd@]URL[:port] [options] mencoder [options] [ file | URL | - ] [-o file] gmplayer [options] [-skin skin] DESCRIPTION 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, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, OGG/OGM, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files, sup- ported 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 using the avifile library). Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of sup- ported output drivers. It works with X11, XV, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI, SDL (and this way 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, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. Most of them support soft- ware or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status informa- tion, 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 10 subtitle formats (Mi- croDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTi- tle, JACOsub and our own: MPsub) and DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VobSub and Closed Captions). mencoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie en- coder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (see above) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It encodes to DivX4, XviD, one of the libavcodec codecs and PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio in 1, 2 or 3 passes. Furthermore it has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, noise, rgb/yuv conversion) and more. gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface. It has the same options as MPlayer. GENERAL NOTES Also see the HTML documentation! Every 'flag' option has a 'noflag' counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the -fs option is -nofs. You can put all of the options in a configuration file which will be read every time mplayer is run. The system- wide configuration file 'mplayer.conf' is in your configu- ration directory (e.g. /etc/mplayer or /usr/local/etc/ mplayer), the user specific one is '~/.mplayer/config'. User specific options override system-wide options and op- tions given on the command line override either. The syn- tax of the configuration files is 'option=<value>', every- thing after a '#' is considered a comment. Options that work without values can be enabled by setting them to 'yes' or '1' and disabled by setting them to 'no' or '0'. Even suboptions can be specified in this way. EXAMPLE: # Use Matrox driver by default. vo=xmga # I love practicing handstands while watching videos. flip=yes # Decode/encode multiple files from png, start it with -mf on mf= type=png:fps=25 PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY) -autoq <quality> (use with -vop pp) Dynamically changes the level of postprocessing de- pending on available spare CPU time. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usual- ly you can use some big number. You have to use -vop pp without parameters in order to use this. -autosync <factor> Gradually adjusts the A/V sync based on audio delay measurements. Specifying -autosync 0, the default, will cause frame timing to be based entirely on au- dio delay measurements. Specifying -autosync 1 will do the same, but will subtly change the A/V correction algorithm used. An uneven video frame rate in a movie which plays fine with -nosound can often be helped by setting this to an integer value greater than 1. The higher the value, the closer the timing will be to -nosound. Try -autosync 30 to smooth out problems with sound drivers which do not implement a perfect audio delay measurement. With this value, if large A/V sync offsets occur, they will only take about 1 or 2 seconds to settle out. This delay in reaction time to sudden A/V offsets should be the only side-effect of turning this option on, for all sound drivers. -benchmark Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end. Use in combination with -nosound and -vo null for benchmarking only the video codec. -framedrop (also see -hardframedrop) Skips displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems. Decoding of B frames is also skipped and video filters are not used. -h, -help, --help Show short summary of options. -hardframedrop More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image distortion! -identify Show file parameters in easy parsable format. The wrapper script TOOLS/midentify suppresses the other mplayer output and (hopefully) shellescapes the filenames. -input <commands> This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system. Paths are relative to ~/ .mplayer/. NOTE: Autorepeat is currently only supported by joy- sticks. Available commands are: conf=<file> Read alternative input.conf. If given without pathname, ~/.mplayer is assumed. ar-delay Delay in msec before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable). ar-rate How many key presses per second when we autorepeat. keylist Prints all keys that can be bound. cmdlist Prints all commands that can be bound. js-dev Specifies the joystick de- vice to use (default is /dev/input/js0). file Read commands from the given file. Mostly useful with a fifo. -lircconf <configuration file> Specifies a configuration file for LIRC (Linux In- frared Remote Control, see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/.lircrc. -loop <number> Loops movie playback <number> times. 0 means for- ever. -nojoystick Turns off joystick support. Default is on, if com- piled in. -nolirc Turns off LIRC support. -nortc Turns off usage of the Linux RTC (real-time clock - /dev/rtc) as timing mechanism. -playlist <file> Play files according to a playlist (1 file per row or Winamp or ASX format). -quiet Display less output and status messages. -really-quiet Display even less output and status messages. -rnd Play files in random order. -sdp Specifies that the input file is a SDP ('Session Description Protocol') file that describes an RTP session (see http://www.live.com/mplayer/). -skin <skin directory> (BETA CODE) Load skin from the given directory (WITHOUT path name). EXAMPLE: -skin fittyfene tries Skin/fittyfene. It first checks /usr/lo- cal/share/mplayer/ and af- terwards ~/.mplayer/. -slave This option switches on slave mode. This is in- tended for use of MPlayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin. The section SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL explains the syntax. -softsleep Uses high quality software timers. As precise as the RTC without requiring special privileges. Comes at the price of higher CPU consumption. -speed <0.01-100> Set playback speed rate. -sstep <sec> Specifies seconds between displayed frames. Useful for slideshows. -use-stdin DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS -aid <id> (also see -alang option) Select audio channel [MPEG: 0-31 AVI/OGM: 1-99 ASF/ RM: 0-127 VOB(AC3): 128-159 VOB(LPCM): 160-191] MPlayer prints the available IDs when running in verbose (-v) mode. -alang <two letter country code> (also see -aid option) Works only for DVD playback. It selects the DVD audio language and always tries to play audio streams whose language matches the given code. For the list of available languages, use with the -v switch and look at the output. EXAMPLE: -alang hu,en Plays Hungarian and falls back to English if Hungarian is not available. -audio-demuxer <number> (-audiofile only) Force audio demuxer type for -audiofile. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. Use -au- dio-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. -audiofile <filename> Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis). -cdrom-device <path to device> Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom. -cache <kbytes> This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/URL. Especially use- ful on slow media (default is -nocache). -cdda <option1:option2> This option can be used to tune the CD Audio read- ing feature of MPlayer. Available options are: speed=<value> set CD spin speed paranoia=<0-2> set paranoia level 0: disable checking 1: overlap checking only (default) 2: full data correction and verification generic-dev=<value> use specified generic SCSI device sector-size=<value> atomic read size overlap=<value> force minimum overlap search during verification to <val- ue> sectors. toc-bias Assume that the beginning offset of track 1 as report- ed in the TOC will be ad- dressed as LBA 0. Some Toshiba drives need this for getting track boundaries correct. toc-offset=<value> Add <value> sectors to the values reported when ad- dressing tracks. May be negative. (no)skip (never) accept imperfect da- ta reconstruction. -channels <number> Change the number of playback channels, defaults to '2' if not specified. If the number of output channels is bigger than the number of input chan- nels empty channels are inserted (unless mixing from mono to stereo, then the mono channel is re- peated in both output channels). If the number of output channels is smaller than the number of input channels, results depend on the audio decoder (-afm). Mplayer asks the decoder to decode the au- dio into as many channels as specified. Now it's up to the decoder to fulfill the requirement. If the decoder outputs more channels than requested, the exceeding channels are truncated. This is usually only important when playing videos with AC3 audio (like DVDs). In that case liba52 does the decoding by default and correctly downmixes the audio into the requested number of channels. NOTE: This option is honored by codecs (AC3 only) filters (surround) and ao drivers (OSS at least). Available options are: 2 Stereo 4 Surround 6 Full 5.1 -chapter <chapter id>[-<end chapter id>] Specify which chapter to start playing at. Option- ally specify which chapter to end playing at (de- fault: 1). Examples can be found below. -csslib <filename> (old-style DVD option) This option is used to over- ride the default location of libcss.so. -demuxer <number> Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. Use -demuxer 17 to force .mp3 de- tection. -dumpaudio (MPLAYER only) Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with mpeg/ac3). -dumpfile <filename> (MPLAYER only) Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together with -dumpaudio / -dumpvideo / -dumpstream. -dumpstream (MPLAYER only) Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump. Useful when ripping from DVD or network. -dumpvideo (MPLAYER only) Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable). -dvd <title id> Tell MPlayer which movies (specified by title id) to play. For example sometimes '1' is a trailer, and '2' is the real movie. NOTE: Sometimes deinterlacing is required for DVD play- back, see the -vop pp=0x20000 option. -dvd-device <path to device> Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd. -dvdangle <angle id> Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles. Here you can tell MPlayer which angles to use (default: 1). Examples can be found below. -dvdauth <DVD device> (old-style DVD option) Turns on DVD authentication using the given device. -dvdkey <CSS key> (old-style DVD option) When decoding a VOB file copied undecrypted from DVD, this option gives the CSS key needed to decrypt the VOB (the key is printed when authenticating with the DVD drive us- ing -dvdauth). -dvdnav (BETA CODE) Force usage of libdvdnav. -forceidx Force rebuilding of INDEX. Useful for files with broken index (desyncs, etc). Seeking will be pos- sible. You can fix the index permanently with MEn- coder (see the documentation). -fps <value> Override video framerate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number). -frames <number> Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit. -hr-mp3-seek (.MP3 only) Hi-res mp3 seeking. Default is: enabled when play- ing from external MP3 file, as we need to seek to the very exact position to keep A/V sync.It can be slow especially when seeking backwards - it has to rewind to the beginning to find the exact frame. -idx (also see -forceidx) Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incom- plete downloads, or badly created AVIs. -mc <seconds/frame> Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds). -mf <option1:option2:...> Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files. Available options are: on turns on multifile support w=<value> width of the output (autode- tect) h=<value> height of the output (au- todetect) fps=<value> fps of the output (default: 25) type=<value> type of input files (avail- able types: jpeg, png, tga) -ni (.AVI only) Force usage of non-interleaved AVI parser (fixes playing of some bad AVI files). -nobps (.AVI only) Do not use average byte/sec value for A-V sync (AVI). Helps with some AVI files with broken head- er. -passwd <password> (see -user option too) Specify password for http authentication. -rawaudio <option1:option2:...> This option lets you play raw audio files. It may also be used to play audio CDs which are not 44KHz 16Bit stereo. Available options are: on use raw audio demuxer channels=<value> number of channels rate=<value> rate in samples per second samplesize=<value> sample size in byte format=<value> fourcc in hex -rtsp-stream-over-tcp Used with 'rtsp://' URLs to specify that the re- sulting incoming RTP and RTCP packets be streamed over TCP (using the same TCP connection as RTSP). This option may be useful if you have a broken In- ternet connection that does not pass incoming UDP packets (see http://www.live.com/mplayer/). -skipopening Skip DVD opening (dvdnav only). -sb <byte position> (see -ss option too) Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CDROM images / .VOB files with junk at the begin- ning. -srate <Hz> Forces the given audio playback rate, changing video speed to keep a-v sync. MEncoder passes this value to lame for resampling. -ss <time> (see -sb option too) Seek to given time position. EXAMPLE: -ss 56 seeks to 56 seconds -ss 01:10:00 seeks to 1 hour 10 min -tv <option1:option2:...> This option enables the TV grabbing feature of MPlayer. NOTE: MPlayer doesn't accept colons so type dots instead in the device ID (e.g. hw.0,0 instead of hw:0,0). Be advised that although you can select any sam- plerate when using ALSA, the LAME audio codec is able to encode only the 'standard' samplerates. You'll get an .avi file with no sound when you choose an odd samplerate and use this codec. Available options are: on use TV input noaudio no sound driver=<value> available: dummy, v4l, bs- dbt848 device=<value> Specify other device than the default /dev/video0. input=<value> Specify other input than the default 0 (Television) (see output for a list) freq=<value> Specify the frequency to set the tuner to (e.g. 511.250). outfmt=<value> output format of the tuner (yv12, rgb32, rgb24, rgb16, rgb15, uyvy, yuy2, i420) width=<value> width of the output window height=<value> height of the output window buffersize=<value> capture buffer size in megabytes (default is half of the physical memory) norm=<value> available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC channel=<value> Set tuner to <value> chan- nel. chanlist=<value> available: europe-east, eu- rope-west, us-bcast, us-ca- ble, etc audiorate=<value> set audio capture bitrate forceaudio capture audio even if there are no audio sources report- ed by v4l alsa capture from ALSA amode=<0-3> choose an audio mode: 0: mono 1: stereo 2: language 1 3: language 2 forcechan=<1-2> By default, the count of recorded audio channels is determined automatically by querying the audio mode from the tv card. This option allows to force stereo/mono recording regardless of the amode option and the values returned by v4l. This can be used for troubleshooting when the tv card is unable to report the current audio mode. adevice=<value> set an audio device /dev/... for OSS hardware ID for ALSA audioid=<value> choose an audio output of the capture card, if it has more of them [volume|bass|treble|balance]=<0-65535> These options set parameters of the mixer on the video capture card. They will have no effect, if your card doesn't have one. -user <user name> (see -passwd option too) Specify user name for http authentication. -vcd <track> Play video CD track from device instead of plain file. -vid <id> Select video channel [MPG: 0-15 ASF: 0-255]. -vivo <sub-options> (DEBUG CODE) Force audio parameters for the .vivo demuxer (for debugging purposes). OSD/SUB OPTIONS NOTE: See -vop expand too. -dumpmicrodvdsub (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the -sub switch) to the MicroDVD subtitle format. Creates a dumpsub.sub file in the current directory. -dumpmpsub (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the -sub switch) to MPlayer's subtitle format, MPsub. Cre- ates a dump.mpsub file in the current directory. -dumpsrtsub (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the -sub switch) to the time-based SubViewer (SRT) subtitle format. Creates a dumpsub.srt file in the current directory. -dumpjacosub (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the -sub switch) to the time-based JACOsub subtitle format. Creates a dumpsub.js file in the current directory. -dumpsami (MPLAYER only) Convert the given subtitle (specified with the -sub switch) to the time-based SAMI subtitle format. Creates a dumpsub.smi file in the current directo- ry. -dumpsub (MPLAYER only) (BETA CODE) Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams. See -dump*sub and -vobsubout* options too. -ifo <vobsub ifo file> Indicate the file that will be used to load palette and frame size for VOBSUB subtitles. -ffactor <number> Resample alphamap of the font. Can be: 0 plain white fonts 0.75 very narrow black outline [default] 1 narrow black outline 10 bold black outline -font <path to font.desc file> Search for the OSD/SUB fonts in an alternative di- rectory (default for normal fonts: ~/.mplayer/font/ font.desc, default for FreeType fonts: ~/.mplayer/ subfont.ttf). NOTE: With FreeType, this option determines path to the text font file. The -subfont-* options are available only with FreeType support compiled in. If FreeType support is enabled, the old font support can't be used. EXAMPLE: -font ~/.mplayer/arial-14/font.desc -font ~/.mplayer/arialuni.ttf -noautosub Turns off automatic loading of subtitle files. -nooverlapsub Turns off support for overlapping subtitles. -osdlevel <0-2> (MPLAYER only) Specifies which mode the OSD should start in (0: none, 1: seek, 2: seek+timer, default is 1). -sid <id> (also see -slang option) Turns on DVD subtitle displaying. Also, you MUST specify a number which corresponds to a DVD subti- tle language (0-31). For the list of available subtitles, use with the -v switch and look at the output. -slang <two letter country code> (also see -sid option) Works only for DVD playback. Turns on/selects DVD subtitle language. For the list of available sub- titles, use with the -v switch and look at the out- put. EXAMPLE: -slang hu,en Selects Hungarian and falls back to English if Hungarian is not available. -sub <subtitle file> Use/display this subtitle file. -subcc Display DVD Closed Caption (CC) subtitles. These are NOT the VOB subtitles, these are special ASCII subtitles for the hearing impaired encoded in the VOB userdata stream on most region 1 DVDs. CC sub- titles have not been spotted on DVDs from other re- gions so far. -subcp <codepage> If your system supports iconv(3), you can use this option to specify codepage of the subtitle. EXAMPLE: -subcp latin2 -subcp cp1250 -sub-demuxer <number> (BETA CODE) Force subtitle demuxer type for -subfile. -subdelay <sec> Delays subtitles by <sec> seconds. Can be nega- tive. -subfont-autoscale <0-3> Sets the autoscale mode. NOTE: Zero means that text-scale and osd-scale are font heights in points. The mode can be: 0 no autoscale 1 proportional to movie height 2 proportional to movie width 3 proportional to movie diago- nal (default) -subfont-blur <0-8> Sets the font blur radius (default: 2). -subfont-encoding <value> Sets the font encoding. When set to 'unicode', all the glyphs from the font file will be rendered and unicode will be used (default: unicode). -subfont-osd-scale <0-100> Sets the osd elements autoscale coefficient (de- fault: 6). -subfont-outline <0-8> Sets the font outline thickness (default: 2). -subfont-text-scale <0-100> Sets the subtitle text autoscale coefficient (per- centage of the screen size) (default: 5). -subfps <rate> Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float num- ber), default: the same fps as the movie. NOTE: ONLY for frame-based SUB files, i.e. NOT MicroDVD format. -subfile <filename> (BETA CODE) Currently useless. Same as -audiofile, but for subtitle streams (OggDS?). -subpos <0-100> (useful with -vop expand) Specify the position of subtitles on the screen. The value is the vertical position of the subtitle in % of the screen height. -unicode Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UNI- CODE. -utf8 Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UTF8. -vobsub <vobsub file without extension> Specify the VobSub files that are to be used for subtitle. This is the full pathname without exten- sions, i.e. without the '.idx', '.ifo' or '.sub'. -vobsubid <0-31> Specify the VobSub subtitle id. AUDIO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY) -abs <value> (OBSOLETE) Override audio driver/card buffer size detection, -ao oss only -af <plugin1,plugin2,plugin3[=options],...> Activate a comma separated list of audio filters and their options. Available filters are: resample[=srate[:sloppy][:fast]] Changes the sample rate of the audio stream to an inte- ger srate (Hz). It only supports the 16 bit little endian format. channels[=nch] Change the number of chan- nels to nch output channels. If the number of output channels is bigger than the number of input channels empty channels are inserted (except mixing from mono to stereo, then the mono chan- nel is repeated in both of the output channels). If the number of output chan- nels is smaller than the number of input channels the exceeding channels are trun- cated. format[=bps,f] Select the format f and bits per sample bps used for out- put from the filter layer. The option bps is an integer and denotes bytes per sam- ple. The format f is a string containing a concate- nated mix of: alaw, mulaw or imaadpcm float or int unsigned or signed le or be (little or big en- dian) volume[=v:sc:pr:en] Select the output volume level. This filter is not reentrant and can therefore only be enabled once for ev- ery audio stream. v: desired gain in dB for all channels in the stream. The gain can be set from -200dB to +40dB (where -200dB mutes the sound completely and +40dB equals a gain of 1000). The default gain is -20dB. sc: enable soft clipping. pr: enable probing of the volume level for each au- dio stream. Both the max- imum and instantaneous volume is probed. The in- stantaneous volume can only be accessed through the runtime interface, but the maximum volume is printed at the end of the movie. This value can be used when transcoding movies to maximize the utilization of the dynam- ic range. en: enable and disable the volume control. delay[=d] Delay sound output by d sec- onds (floating point num- ber). -af-adv <force=(0-3):list=(filters)> (see -af option too) Specify advanced audio filter options: force=<0-3> Forces the insertion of au- dio filters to one of the following: 0: Completely automatic insertion of filters (de- fault) 1: Optimize for speed 2: Optimize for accuracy 3: Turn off auto list=<filters> Same as -af (see -af op- tion). -ao <driver1[:device],driver2,...[,]> Specify a priority list of audio output drivers (optionally with device) to be used. 'device' is valid with SDL, too, it means subdriver then. NOTE: To get a full list of available drivers, see -ao help. If the list has a trailing ',' it will fallback to drivers not listed. EXAMPLE -ao oss:/dev/dsp2,oss:/dev/dsp1, try to use OSS with the specified sound devices and fallback to others if it fails -ao sdl:esd specify the SDL subdriver -aofile <filename> Filename for -ao pcm. -aop <list=plugin1,plugin2...:option1=value1:opt2=val2...> Specify audio plugin(s) and their options (see doc- umentation too). Available options are: list=[plugins] comma separated list of plu- gins (resample, surround, format, volume, extrastereo, volnorm) delay=<sec> example plugin, do not use. format=<format> output format (format plugin only) fout=<Hz> output frequency (resample plugin only) volume=<0-255> volume (volume plugin only) mul=<value> stereo coefficient (default: 2.5) (extrastereo plugin on- ly) softclip compressor / 'soft-clipping' capabilities (volume plugin only) -delay <sec> Audio delay in seconds (may be +/- float value). -mixer <device> This option will tell MPlayer to use a different device for mixing than /dev/mixer. -nowaveheader (-ao pcm only) Don't include wave header. Used for RAW PCM. VIDEO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY) -aa* (-vo aa only) You can get a list and an explanation of available options executing mplayer -aahelp -bpp <depth> Use different color depth than autodetect. Not all -vo drivers support it (fbdev, dga2, svga, vesa). -brightness <-100 - 100> Adjust brightness of video output (default 0). It changes intensity of RGB components of video signal from black to white screen. -contrast <-100 - 100> Adjust contrast of video output (default 0). Works in similar manner as brightness. -display <name> Specify the hostname and display number of the X server you want to display on. EXAMPLE: -display xtest.localdomain:0 -double Enables doublebuffering. Fixes flicker by storing two frames in memory, and displaying one while de- coding another. Can affect OSD. Needs twice the memory of a single buffer, so it won't work on cards with very little video memory. -dr Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs) (default is off). Warn- ing: may cause OSD/SUB corruption! -dxr2 <option1:option2:...> This option is used to control the dxr2 driver. Note: The lavc filter is now auto inserted if you try to play a non MPEG1/2 format so all formats supported by MPlayer should play out of the box (if you have the CPU power needed to encode on the fly). The overlay chipset used on the dxr2 is of pretty bad quality but the default settings should work for everybody. The OSD may be usable with the overlay (not on TV) by drawing it in the colorkey. With the default colorkey settings you may get variable results, usually you will see the colorkey around the characters or some other funny effect. Buf if you properly adjust the colorkey settings you should be able to get acceptable results. ar-mode=<value> aspect ratio mode (0 = nor- mal, 1 = pan scan, 2 = let- terbox (default)) iec958-encoded/decoded iec958 output mode mute mute sound output ucode=<value> path to the microcode TV Out 75ire enable 7.5 IRE bw b/w TV output color color TV output interlaced interlaced TV output macrovision=<value> macrovision mode (0 = off (default), 1 = agc, 2 = agc 2 colorstripe, 3 = agc 4 colorstripe) norm=<value> TV norm (ntsc (default), pal,pal60,palm,paln,palnc) square/ccir601-pixel TV pixel mode Overlay cr-[left|right|top|bot]=<-20-20> adjust the overlay cropping ck-[rgb]min=<0-255> minimum value for the color key ck-[rgb]max=<0-255> maximum value for the color key ck-[rgb]=<0-255> color key values ignore-cache do not use the VGA cache ol-osd enable the osd hack on the overlay ol[hwxy]-cor=<value> adjust the overlay size and position in case it doesn't match the window perfectly overlay enable the overlay overlay-ratio=<1-2500> tune the overlay (default 1000) update-cache recreate the VGA cache -fb <device> (fbdev or DirectFB only) Specifies the framebuffer device to use. By de- fault it uses /dev/fb0. -fbmode <modename> (fbdev only) Change video mode to the one that is labelled as <modename> in /etc/fb.modes. NOTE: VESA framebuffer doesn't support mode changing. -fbmodeconfig <filename> (fbdev only) Use this configuration file instead of the default /etc/fb.modes. Only valid for the fbdev driver. -forcexv (SDL only) Force using XVideo. -fs Fullscreen playing (centers movie, and makes black bands around it). Toggle it with the 'f' key (not all video outputs support it). See also -zoom. -fsmode-dontuse <0-31> (OBSOLETE) (use -fs option) Try this option if you still experience fullscreen problems. -geometry x[%][:y[%]] Adjust where the output is on the screen initially. The x and y specifications are in pixels measured from the top-right of the screen to the top-right of the image being displayed, however if a percent- age sign is given after the argument it turns the value into a percentage of the screen size in that direction. The values given must be integers. EXAMPLE: 50:40 Places the window at x=50, y=40 50%:50% Places the window in the middle of the screen 100% Places the window at the top left corner of the screen 100%:100% Places the window at the bottom left corner of the screen -hue <-100 - 100> Adjust hue of video signal (default: 0). You can get colored negative of image with this option. -icelayer <0-15> (icewm only) Sets the layer of the fullscreen window of mplayer for icewm. 0 Desktop 2 Below 4 Normal 6 OnTop 8 Dock 10 AboveDock 12 Menu (default) -jpeg <option1:option2:...> (-vo jpeg only) Specify options for the JPEG output. Available options are: [no]progressiv, [no]base- line, optimize, smooth, quality and outdir. -monitor_dotclock <dotclock (or pixelclock) range> (fbdev and vesa only) Look into etc/example.conf for further information and in DOCS/video.html. -monitor_hfreq <horizontal frequency range> (fbdev and vesa only) -monitor_vfreq <vertical frequency range> (fbdev and vesa only) -monitoraspect <ratio> Set aspect ratio of your monitor or TV screen. See also -aspect for movie aspect. EXAMPLE: -monitoraspect 4:3 or 1.3333 -monitoraspect 16:9 or 1.7777 -nograbpointer Do not grab mouse pointer after VidMode change (-vm), useful for multihead setup. -noslices Disable drawing video by 16-pixel height slices/ bands, instead draws the while frame in a single run. May be faster or slower, depending on card/ cache. It has effect only with libmpeg2 and libav- codec codecs. -panscan <0.0-1.0> Enables Pan & Scan functionality, i.e. in order to display a 16:9 movie on a 4:3 display, the sides of the movie are cropped to get a 4:3 image which fits the screen. This function works only with xv, xmga and xvidix drivers. The range controls how much of the image is cropped. -rootwin Play movie in the root window (desktop background) instead of opening a new one. Works only with x11, xv, xmga and xvidix drivers. -saturation <-100 - 100> Adjust saturation of video output (default: 0). You can get grayscale output with this option. -screenw <pixels> -screenh <pixels> If you use an output driver which can't know the resolution of the screen (fbdev/x11 and/or TVout) this is where you can specify the horizontal and vertical resolution. -stop_xscreensaver Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. -vm Try to change to a better video mode. dga, x11/xv (XF86VidMode) and sdl output drivers support it. -vo <driver1[:device],driver2,...[,]> Specify a priority list of video output drivers (optionally with device) to be used. 'device' is valid with SDL and GGI, too, it means subdriver then. NOTE: See -vo help for a full list of available drivers. If the list has a trailing ',' it will fallback to drivers not listed. EXAMPLE: -vo xmga,xv, Try Matrox kernel driver, then Xv driver, then others -vo sdl:aalib specify the SDL subdriver -vsync Enables VBI for vesa. -wid <window id> This tells MPlayer to use a X11 window, which is useful to embed MPlayer in a browser (with the plugger extension for instance). -xineramascreen <0-...> In Xinerama configurations (i.e. a single desktop that spans across multiple displays) this option tells MPlayer which screen to display movie on. -z <0-9> Specifies compression level for PNG output (-vo png) 0 no compression 9 max compression -zrbw (-vo zr only) Display in black and white (for optimal perfor- mance, this option can be combined with the 'decode only in black and white' option for codecs belong- ing to the FFmpeg family). -zrcrop <[width]x[height]+[x offset]+[y offset]> (-vo zr only) Select a part of the input image for display, mul- tiple occurences of this option switch on cinerama mode. In cinerama mode the movie is distributed over more than one TV (or beamer) to create a larg- er screen. Options appearing after the n-th -zr- crop apply to the n-th MJPEG card, each card should at least have a -zrdev in addition to the -zrcrop. For examples, see the output of -zrhelp and the Zr section of the documentation. -zrdev <device> (-vo zr only) Specify the device special file that belongs to your MJPEG card, by default this driver takes the first v4l device it can find. -zrfd (-vo zr only) Force decimation: Decimation, as specified by -zrhdec and -zrvdec, only happens if the hardware scaler can stretch the image to its original size. Use this option to force decimation. -zrhelp (-vo zr only) Display a list of all -zr* options, their default values and an example of cinerama mode. -zrnorm <norm> (-vo zr only) Specify norm PAL/NTSC, the default is 'no change'. -zrquality <1-20> (-vo zr only) A number from 1 to 20 representing the jpeg encod- ing quality. 1 gives the best quality and 20 gives very bad quality. -zrvdec <1,2,4> -zrhdec <1,2,4> (-vo zr only) Vertical/horizontal decimation: Ask the driver to send only every 2nd or 4th line/pixel of the input image to the MJPEG card and use the scaler of the MJPEG card to strech the image to its original size. -zrxdoff <x display offset>, -zrydoff <y display offset> (-vo zr only) If the movie is smaller than the TV screen, these options control the position of the movie relative to the upper left corner of the screen. The movie is centered by default. DECODING/FILTERING OPTIONS -ac <[-]codec1,[-]codec2,...[,]> Specify a priority list of audio codecs to be used, according to their codec name in codecs.conf. Use a '-' before the codec name to omit it. NOTE: See -ac help for a full list of available codecs. If the list has a trailing ',' it will fallback to codecs not listed. EXAMPLE: -ac mp3acm force l3codeca.acm MP3 codec -ac mad, try libmad first, then fall- back to others -ac hwac3,a52, try hardware AC3 passthrough, then software AC3 codec, then others -ac -ffmp3, try other codecs except FFm- peg's MP3 decoder -afm <driver1,driver2,...> Specify a priority list of audio drivers to be used, according to their driver name in codecs.conf. It falls back to default if none is ok. NOTE: See -afm help for a full list of available drivers. EXAMPLE: -afm ffmpeg try FFmpeg's libavcodec (mp1/2/3) codecs first -afm acm,dshow try Win32 codecs first -aspect <ratio> Override aspect ratio of movies. It's autodetected on MPEG files, but can't be autodetected on most AVI files. EXAMPLE: -aspect 4:3 or -aspect 1.3333 -aspect 16:9 or -aspect 1.7777 -flip Flip image upside-down. -lavdopts <option1:option2:...> (DEBUG CODE) If decoding with a codec from libavcodec, you can specify its parameters here. EXAMPLE: -lavdopts bug=1 NOTE: Just add the values of the things you want to enable. Available options are: ec error concealment: 1: use strong deblock filter for damaged MBs 2: iterative MV search (slow) 3: all (default) er=<value> error resilience: 0: disabled 1: careful (should work with broken encoders) 2: normal (default) (works with compliant en- coders) 3: agressive (more checks but might cause problems even for valid bit- streams) 4: very agressive bug=<value> manually work around encoder bugs: 0: nothing 1: autodetect bugs (de- fault) 2 (msmpeg4v3): some old lavc generated msmpeg4v3 files (no autodetect) 4 (mpeg4): xvid interlac- ing bug (autodetected if fourcc==XVIX) 8 (mpeg4): UMP4 (autode- tected if fourcc==UMP4) 16 (mpeg4): padding bug 32 (mpeg4): illegal vlc bug (autodetected per fourcc) gray grayscale only decoding (a bit faster than with color) -noaspect Disable automatic movie aspect ratio compensation. -nosound Do not play/encode sound. -vop pp=<option1/option2/...> This option enables usage of MPlayer's internal postprocessing filter, and also gives an interface where you can pass options to the named filter. Note that each sub-filter must be separated with a / sign. Each filter defaults to 'c' (chrominance). The keywords accept a '-' prefix to disable the op- tion. A ':' followed by a letter may be appended to the option to indicate its scope: a: Automatically switches the filter off if the CPU is too slow. c: Do chrominance filtering, too. y: Do not do chrominance filtering (only lumi- nance filtering). EXAMPLE: -vop pp=hb/vb/dr/al/lb -vop pp=hb/vb/dr/al -vop pp=de/-al default filters without brightness/contrast correc- tion -vop pp=de/tn:1:2:3 Enable default filters & temporal denoiser. -vop pp=hb:y/vb:a -autoq 6 Deblock horizontal only lu- minance and switch vertical deblocking on or off auto- matically depending on available CPU time. -pp <quality> (see -vop pp option too) Set postprocess level of the DLL. This option is NO LONGER USABLE with MPlayer's postprocess filter, but only with Win32 DirectShow DLLs which have in- teral postprocessing routine. The valid range of -pp value vary on codecs, mostly 0-6, where 0=disable 6=slowest/best. -ssf <mode> Specifies SwScaler parameters. EXAMPLE -vop scale -ssf lgb=3.0 lgb=<0-100> Gaussian blur filter (luma) cgb=<0-100> Gaussian blur filter (chro- ma) ls=<0-100> sharpen filter (luma) cs=<0-100> sharpen filter (chroma) chs=<h> chroma horizontal shifting cvs=<v> chroma vertical shifting -stereo <mode> Select type of MP2/MP3 stereo output. 0 Stereo 1 Left channel 2 Right channel -sws <software scaler type> (see -vop scale option too) This option sets the quality (and speed, respec- tively) of the software scaler, with the -zoom op- tion. For example with x11 or other outputs which lack hardware acceleration. Possible settings are: NOTE: For -sws 2 and 7, the sharpness can be set with the scaling parameter (p) of -vop scale (0 (soft) - 100 (sharp)), for -sws 9, it specifies the filter length (1 - 10). 0 fast bilinear (default) 1 bilinear 2 bicubic (good quality) 3 experimental 4 nearest neighbour (bad qual- ity) 5 area 6 luma bicubic / chroma bilin- ear 7 gauss 8 sincR 9 lanczos 10 bicubic spline -vc <[-]codec1,[-]codec2,...[,]> Specify a priority list of video codecs to be used, according to their codec name in codecs.conf. Use a '-' before the codec name to omit it. NOTE: See -vc help for a full list of available codecs. If the list has a trailing ',' it will fallback to codecs not listed. EXAMPLE: -vc divx force Win32/VFW DivX codec, no fallback -vc divx4, try divx4linux codec first, then fallback to others -vc -divxds,-divx, try other codecs except Win32 DivX codecs -vc ffmpeg12,mpeg12, try libavcodec's MPEG1/2 codec, then libmpeg2, then others -vfm <driver1,driver2,...> Specify a priority list of video drivers to be used, according to their driver name in codecs.conf. It falls back to default if none is ok. NOTE: If libdivxdecore support was compiled in, then odi- vx and divx4 now contains just the same DivX4 codec, but different APIs to reach it. For differ- ence between them and when to use which, check the DivX4 section in the documentation. See -vfm help for a full list of available drivers. EXAMPLE: -vfm ffmpeg,dshow,vfw try the libavcodec, then Di- rectshow, then VFW codecs and fallback to the others, if still none is ok -vfm xanim try XAnim codecs first -vop <...,filter3[=options],filter2,filter1> Activate a comma separated list of video filters and their options in reverse order. NOTE: The parameters are optional and if omitted, some of them are set to default values. Use -1 to keep the default value. Parameters w:h means width x height in pixels, x:y means x;y position counted from the upper left corner of the bigger image. To get a full list of available plugins, see -vop help. Available filters are: crop[=w:h:x:y] Crops the given part of the image and discards the rest. Useful to remove black bands from widescreen movies. rectangle[=w:h:x:y] Draws a rectangle of the re- quested width and height at the specified coordinates over the image (used to test crop). (default: maximum w/ h, upper left x/y position) expand[=w:h:x:y:o] Expands (not scales) movie resolution to the given val- ue and places the unscaled original at coordinates x y. Can be used for placing sub- titles/OSD in the resulting black bands (default: origi- nal w/h, centered x/y). The last parameter (de)activates OSD rendering (default: 0). flip Flips the image upside down. See also option -flip. mirror Flips the image on Y axis. rotate[=<0-7>] Rotates and flips (optional) the image +/- 90 degrees. For parameters between 4-7 rotation is only done if the movie's geometry is portrait and not landscape. scale[=w:h[:c[:p]]] Scales the image with the software scaler (slow) and performs a YUV<->RGB col- orspace conversion (see -sws option too). The value 0 is used for scaled (aspect) destination w/h. (default: original w/h, destination w/ h with -zoom) Optionaly chroma skipping (c from 0-3) and scaling parameters can be specified. (see the -sws option for details) yuy2 Forces software YV12/I420 or 422P to YUY2 conversion. rgb2bgr[=swap] RGB 24/32 <-> BGR 24/32 col- orspace conversion with op- tional R <-> B swapping. palette RGB/BGR 8 -> 15/16/24/32bpp colorspace conversion using palette. format[=fourcc] Restricts the colorspace for next filter. It does not do any conversion. Use togeth- er with the scale filter for a real conversion. pp[=flags] Activates the external post- processing filter. (see -vop pp option for details) lavc[=quality:fps] Realtime MPEG1 encoder for use with DVB/DXR3 (libav- codec) fame Realtime MPEG1 encoder for use with DVB/DXR3 (libfame) dvbscale[=aspect] Set up optimal scaling for DVB cards. (aspect = DVB_HEIGHT*ASPECTRATIO, de- fault: 768) cropdetect[=0-255] Calculates necessary crop- ping parameters and prints the recommended parameters to stdout. The threshold can be optionally specified from nothing (0) to every- thing (255). (default: 24) noise[=luma[u][t|a][h][p]:chroma[u][t|a][h][p]] Adds noise <0-100>: luma noise <0-100>: chroma noise u: uniform noise t: temporal noise a: averaged temporal noise h: high quality p: mix with pattern eq[=bright:cont] Activates the software equalizer with interactive controls like the hardware eq controls. The values can be from -100 to 100. halfpack Convert planar YUV 4:2:0 to half-height packed 4:2:2, downsampling luma but keep- ing all chroma samples. Useful for output to low- resolution display devices when hardware downscaling is poor quality or is not available. dint[=sense:level] Detects and drops first of interlaced frames in video stream. Values can be from 0.0 to 1.0 - first (default 0.1) is relative difference between neighbor pixels, second (default 0.15) is what part of image have to be detected as interlaced to drop the frame. unsharp=l|cWxH:amount[:l|cWxH:amount] Unsharp mask / gaussian blur. l: apply effect on luma component c: apply effect on chroma components WxH: width and height of the matrix, odd sized in both directions (min = 3x3, max = 13x11 or 11x13, usually something between 3x3 and 7x7) amount: relative amount of sharpness / blur to add to the image (amount < 0 = blur, amount > 0 = sharpen, usually some- thing between -1.5 and 1.5) swapuv Swap U & V plane. il=[d|i][s][:[d|i][s]] (de)interleaves lines. d: deinterleave i: interleave s: swap fields (exchange even & odd lines) boxblur=radius:power[:radius:power] radius: size of the fil- ter power: how often the fil- ter should be applied !!! .IPs 1bpp !!! .IPs 2xsai !!! .IPs eq2 !!! .IPs yvu9 !!! more (IMHO all of -vop help should be documented), !!! especially bmovl (see .c file), add vo/test? -x <x> (MPLAYER only) Scale image to x width (if sw/hw scaling avail- able). Disables aspect calculations. -xvidopts <option1:option2:...> Specify additional parameters when decoding with XviD. dr2 Activate direct rendering method 2. nodr2 Deactivate direct rendering method 2. -xy <x> x<=8 Scale image by factor <x>. x>8 Set width to <x> and calcu- late height to keep correct aspect ratio. -y <y> (MPLAYER only) Scale image to y height (if sw/hw scaling avail- able). Disables aspect calculations. -zoom Allow software scaling, where available. Could be used to force scaling with -vop scale. NOTE: -vop scale will IGNORE options -x / -y / -xy / -fs / -aspect without -zoom. ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY) -audio-density <1-50> Number of audio chunks per second (default is 2 for 0.5s long audio chunks). NOTE: CBR only, VBR ignores this as it puts each packet in a new chunk. -audio-delay <0.0-...> Sets the audio delay field in the header. Default is 0.0, negative values do not work. This does not delay the audio while encoding, but the player will see the default audio delay, sparing you the use of the -delay option. -audio-preload <0.0-2.0> Sets up audio buffering time interval (default: 0.5s). -divx4opts <option1:option2:...> If encoding to DivX4, you can specify its parame- ters here. Available options are: help get help br=<value> specify bitrate in kbit <4-16000> or bit <16001-24000000> key=<value> maximum keyframe interval (in frames) deinterlace enable deinterlacing (avoid it, DivX4 is buggy) q=<1-5> quality (1-fastest, 5-best) min_quant=<1-31> minimum quantizer max_quant=<1-31> maximum quantizer rc_period=<value> rate control period rc_reaction_period=<value> rate control reaction period rc_reaction_ratio=<value> rate control reaction ratio crispness=<0-100> specify crispness/smoothness pass=<1-2> With this you can encode 2pass DivX4 files. First encode with pass=1, then with the same parameters, encode with pass=2. vbrpass=<0-2> Override the pass argument and use XviD VBR Library in- stead of DivX4 VBR. Avail- able options are: 0: one pass encoding (as in not putting pass on the command line) 1: Analysis (first) pass of two pass encoding. The resulting AVI file can be directed to /dev/null. 2: Final (second) pass of two pass encoding. -endpos <[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ms]|size[b|kb|mb]> (see -ss and -sb option too) Stop encoding at given time or byte position. Can be specified in many ways: NOTE: Byte position won't be accurate, as it can only stop at a frame boundary. EXAMPLE: -endpos 56 encode only 56 seconds -endpos 01:10:00 encode only 1 hour 10 min- utes -endpos 100mb encode only 100 MBytes -ffourcc <fourcc> Can be used to override the video fourcc of the output file. EXAMPLE: -ffourcc div3 will have the output file contain 'div3' as video fourcc. -include <configuration file> Specify configuration file to be parsed after the default -info <option1:option2:...> (.AVI only) Specify the info header of the resulting .AVI file. Available options are: help show this description name=<value> title of the subject of the file artist=<value> artist or author of the original subject of the file genre=<value> original work category subject=<value> contents of the file copyright=<value> copyright information for the file srcform=<value> original form of the materi- al that was digitized comment=<value> general comments about the file or the subject of the file -lameopts <option1:option2:...> If encoding to MP3 with libmp3lame, you can specify its parameters here. Available options are: help get help vbr=<0-4> variable bitrate method 0: cbr 1: mt 2: rh(default) 3: abr 4: mtrh abr average bitrate cbr constant bitrate br=<0-1024> specify bitrate in kBit (CBR and ABR only) q=<0-9> quality (0-highest, 9-low- est) (only for VBR) aq=<0-9> algorithmic quality (0-best/ slowest, 9-worst/fastest) ratio=<1-100> compression ratio vol=<0-10> set audio input gain mode=<0-3> (default: auto) 0: stereo 1: joint-stereo 2: dualchannel 3: mono padding=<0-2> 0: no 1: all 2: adjust -lavcopts <option1:option2:...> If encoding with a codec from libavcodec, you can specify its parameters here. EXAMPLE: -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbi- trate=1800:vhq:keyint=250 Available options are: vcodec=<value> use the specified codec (there is no default, you must specify it): mjpeg: Motion JPEG h263: H263 h263p: H263 Plus mpeg4: DivX 4/5 msmpeg4: DivX 3 rv10: an old RealVideo codec mpeg1video: MPEG1 video :) vqmin=<2-31> minimum quantizer (pass 1/2) (default: 3) vqscale=<2-31> constant quantizer (selects fixed quantizer mode) (de- fault: 0 (disabled)) vqmax=<1-31> maximum quantizer (pass 1/2) (default: 15) vqdiff=<1-31> maximum quantizer difference between I or P frames (pass 1/2) (default: 3) vmax_b_frames=<0-4> maximum number of B frames between non B frames: 0: no B frames (default) 0-2: sane range vme=<0-5> motion estimation method: 0: none (very lq) 1: full (slow) 2: log (lq) 3: phods (lq) 4: EPZS (default) 5: X1 vhq high quality mode, encode each macro block in all modes an choose the smallest (slow). (default: HQ dis- abled) v4mv 4 motion vectors per mac- roblock (slightly better quality), cannot be used with B frames. (default: disabled) keyint=<0-300> interval between keyframes in frames. Larger numbers mean slightly smaller files, but less precise seeking, 0 means no key frames and val- ues >300 aren't recommended. For a strict mpeg1/2/4 com- pliance this would have to be <=132. (default: 250 or one key frame every ten sec- onds in a 25fps movie) vb_strategy=<0-1> strategy to choose between I/P/B frames (pass 2): 0: always use the maximum number of B frames (de- fault) 1: avoid B frames in high motion scenes (bitrate mispredictions) vpass=<1-2> Activates internal 2pass mode (default: disabled): 1: first pass 2: second pass aspect=<x.x/y.y> Store movie aspect internal- ly, just like MPEG files. Much nicer solution than rescaling, because quality isn't decreased. Only MPlay- er will play these files back correctly, other play- ers will display them with wrong aspect. Example: aspect=16.0/9.0 vbitrate=<value> specify bitrate (pass 1/2) in kBit <4-16000> or Bit <16001-24000000> (warning: 1kBit = 1000 Bits) (default: 800) vratetol=<value> approximated filesize toler- ance in kbit. (warning: 1kBit = 1000 Bits) (default: 8000) vrc_maxrate=<value> maximum bitrate in kbit/sec (pass 1/2) vrc_minrate=<value> minimum bitrate in kbit/sec (pass 1/2) vrc_buf_size=<value> buffer size in kbit (pass 1/ 2). Note: vratetol should not be too large during the second pass or there might be problems if vrc_(min|max)rate is used. vb_qfactor=<-31.0-31.0> quantizer factor between B and non B frames (pass 1/2) (default: 1.25) vi_qfactor=<-31.0-31.0> (pass 1/2) (default: 0.8) vb_qoffset=<-31.0-31.0> quantizer offset between B and non B frames (pass 1/2) (default: 1.25) vi_qoffset=<-31.0-31.0> (pass 1/2) (default: 0.0) if v{b|i}_qfactor > 0 I/B-Frame quantizer = P- Frame quantizer * v{b|i}_qfactor + v{b|i}_qoffset else do normal ratecontrol (dont lock to next P frame quan- tizer) and set q= -q * v{b|i}_qfactor + v{b|i}_qoffset vqblur=<0.0-1.0> quantizer blur (pass1): 0.0: qblur disabled 0.5 (default) 1.0: average the quantiz- er over all previous frames, larger values will average the quantizer more over time (slower change) vqblur=<0.0-99.0> quantizer gaussian blur, larger values will average the quantizer more over time (slower change) (pass2) (de- fault: 0.5) vqcomp=<value> quantizer compression, de- pends upon vrc_eq (pass 1/2) (default: 0.5) vrc_eq=<equation> main ratecontrol equation (pass 1/2): 1: constant bitrate tex: constant quality 1+(tex/avgTex-1)*qComp: ap- proximately the equation of the old ratecontrol code tex^qComp: with qcomp 0.5 or something like that (de- fault) infix operators: +,-,*,/,^ variables: tex: texture complexity iTex,pTex: intra, non intra texture complexity avgTex: average texture complexity avgIITexaverage: intra tex- ture complexity in I frames avgPITexaverage: intra tex- ture complexity in P frames avgPPTexaverage: non intra texture complexity in P frames avgBPTexaverage: non intra texture complexity in B frames mv: bits used for MVs fCode: maximum length of MV in log2 scale iCount: number of intra MBs / number of MBs var: spatial complexity mcVar: temporal complexity qComp: qcomp from the command line isI, isP, isB: is 1 if picture type is I/P/B else 0 Pi,E: see your favorite math book functions: max(a,b),min(a,b): maximum / minimum gt(a,b): is 1 if a>b, 0 oth- erwise lt(a,b): is 1 if a<b, 0 oth- erwise eq(a,b): is 1 if a==b,0 oth- erwise sin, cos, tan, sinh, cosh, tanh, exp, log, abs vrc_override=<options> User specified quality for specific parts (pass 1/2). The options are <start- frame, end-frame, quality[/ start-frame, end-frame, quality[/...]]>: quality 2-31: quantizer quality -500-0: quality correcture in % vrc_init_cplx=<0-1000> initial complexity (pass 1) vqsquish=<0-1> specify how to keep the quantizer between qmin and qmax (pass 1/2): 0: use cliping 1: use a nice differen- tiable function (default) vlelim=<-1000-1000> single coefficient elimina- tion threshold for lumi- nance. Negative values will also consider the dc coeffi- cient (should be at least -4 or lower for encoding at quant=1): 0: disabled (default) -4 (JVT recommendation) vcelim=<-1000-1000> single coefficient elimina- tion threshold for chromi- nance. Negative values will also consider the dc coeffi- cient (should be at least -4 or lower for encoding at quant=1): 0 disabled (default) 7 (JVT recommendation) vstrict strict standard compliance. Only recommended if you want to feed the output into the mpeg4 reference decoder. vdpart data partitioning. Adds 2 byte per video packet, im- proves error-resistance when transfering over unreliable channels (eg. streaming over the internet) vpsize=<0-10000> video packet size, improves error-resistance (see -vd- part option too): 0: disabled (default) 100-1000: good choice gray grayscale only encoding (faster) (default: disabled) vfdct=<0-99> dct algorithm: 0: automatically select a good one (default) 1: fast integer 2: accurate integer 3: mmx 4: mlib idct=<0-99> idct algorithm. Note: all these IDCTs do pass the IEEE1180 tests afaik: 0: automatically select a good one (default) 1: jpeg reference integer 2: simple 3: simplemmx 4: libmpeg2mmx (inaccu- rate, DONT USE for encod- ing with keyint >100) 5: ps2 6: mlib 7: arm lumi_mask=<0.0-1.0> luminance masking. Warning: be careful, too large values can cause disasterous things. Warning2: large values might look good on some monitors but may look horrible on other monitors: 0.0: disabled (default) 0.0-0.3: sane range dark_mask=<0.0-1.0> darkness masking. Warning: be careful, too large values can cause disasterous things. Warning2: large values might look good on some monitors but may look horrible on other monitors / TV / TFT: 0.0: disabled (default) 0.0-0.3: sane range tcplx_mask=<0.0-1.0> temporal complexity masking (default: 0.0 (disabled)) scplx_mask=<0.0-1.0> spatial complexity masking. Larger values help against blockiness, if no deblocking filter is used for decoding. Crop any black borders to get better quality: 0.0: disabled (default) 0.0-0.5: sane range naq normalize adaptive quantiza- tion (experimental) ildct use interlaced dct mpeg_quant use MPEG quantizers instead of H.263. (default: dis- abled) (i.e. use H.263 quan- tizers) -noskip Do not skip frames. -o <filename> Outputs to the given filename, instead of the de- fault 'test.avi'. -oac <codec name> Encode with the given codec. Use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs. (no default set) EXAMPLE: -oac copy no encoding, just streamcopy -oac pcm encode to uncompressed PCM -oac mp3lame encode to MP3 (using Lame) -ofps <fps> The output file will have different frame/sec than the source. You MUST set it for variable fps (asf, some mov) and progressive (29.97fps telecined mpeg) files. -ovc <codec name> Encode with the given codec. Use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs. (no default set) EXAMPLE: -ovc copy no encoding, just streamcopy -ovc divx4 encode to DivX4/DivX5 -ovc rawrgb encode to uncompressed RGB24 -ovc lavc encode with a libavcodec codecs -passlogfile <filename> When encoding in 2pass mode, MEncoder dumps first pass' informations to the given file instead of the default divx2pass.log. -skiplimit <value> Maximal skipable frames after non-skipped one (-noskiplimit for unlimited number). -v, --verbose Enable verbose output (more -v means more verbosi- ty). -vobsubout <basename> Specify the basename for the output .idx and .sub files. This turns off subtitle rendering in the encoded movie and diverts it to Vobsub subtitle files. -vobsuboutindex <index> Specify the index of the subtitles in the output files. (default: 0) -vobsuboutid <langid> Specify the language two letter code for the subti- tles. This overrides what is read from the DVD or the .ifo file. -xvidencopts <option1:option2:...> If encoding to XviD, you can specify its parameters here. There's three modes available : constant bitrate (CBR), fixed quantizer and 2pass. Available options are: pass=<1|2> specify the pass in 2pass mode quality=<0-6> specify the encoding quality (default=6) br=<value> sets the bitrate to be used in kbits/second if <16000 or in bits/second if >16000 (CBR or 2pass mode, de- fault=687 kbits/s) rc_reaction_delay_factor=<value> specify how fast the rate control reacts, lower values are faster rc_averaging_period=<value> period to reach the required average rc_buffer=<value> size of the rate control buffer quant_range=<1-31>-<1-31>[/<1-31>-<1-31>] min & max quantizer for all frames (default=2-31, CBR mode) min & max quantizer for I/P frames (default=2-31/2-31, 2pass mode) min_key_interval=<value> minimum interval between key frames (default=0, 2pass on- ly) max_key_interval=<value> maximum interval between key frames (default=10*fps) mpeg_quant use MPEG quantizers instead of H.263 (default=off) mod_quant decide whether to use MPEG or H.263 quantizers on a frame-by-frame basis. (de- fault=off, 2pass mode only) lumi_mask use a lumimasking algorithm (default=off, seems buggy) hintedme save Motion Estimation vec- tors to a file during the first pass and reuse this file during the second (de- fault=off, 2pass mode only, seems buggy) hintfile specify the temporary file to be used by the 'hintedme' option (default= ./xvid_hint_me.dat, 2pass mode only) debug save per-frame statistics in xvid.dbg (default=off) this is *not* the 2pass con- trol file keyframe_boost=<0-1000> (default=0, 2pass mode only) kfthreshold=<value> (default=10, 2pass mode on- ly) kfreduction=<0-100> (default=30, 2pass mode on- ly) fixed_quant=<1-31> switch to fixed quantizer mode and specify the quan- tizer to be used KEYBOARD CONTROL NOTE: MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which allow you to control MPlayer using keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote control (using lirc). The default configuration file for the input system is ~/.mplayer/input.conf but it can be overriden using the -input conf option. These keys may/may not work, depending on your video out- put driver. 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 alterna- tive source (asx playlist only) p / SPACE pause movie (any key unpaus- es) 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 w and e decrease/increase panscan range o toggle between OSD states: none / seek / seek+timer d toggle frame dropping v toggle subtitle visibility j switch subtitle language z and x adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second r and t adjust subtitle position (The following keys are valid only when using -vo xv or -vo [vesa|fbdev]:vidix or -vo xvidix -vo (x)mga or -vc divxds (slow).) 1 and 2 adjust contrast 3 and 4 adjust brightness 5 and 6 adjust hue 7 and 8 adjust saturation GUI keyboard control ENTER start playing s stop playing a about l load file c skin browser p toggle playlist TV input control h and k select previous/next channel n change norm u change channel list DVDNAV input control K,J,H,L browse up/down/left/right M jump to main menu S select SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL If the -slave switch is given, playback is controlled by a line-based protocol. Each line must contain one command otherwise one of the following tokens: Commands seek <value> [type=<0/1/2>] Seek to some place in the movie. Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- <value> seconds. Type 1 seek to <value> % in the movie. Type 2 is a seek to an absolute position of <value> seconds. audio_delay <value> Adjust the audio delay of value seconds quit Quit MPlayer pause Pause/unpause the playback grap_frames Somebody know ? pt_step <value> [force=<value>] Go to next/previous entry in the playtree. pt_up_step <value> [force=<value>] Like pt_step but it jumps to next/previous in the parent list. alt_src_step <value> When more than one source is available it selects the next/previous one (only sup- ported by asx playlist). sub_delay <value> [abs=<value>] Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- <value> seconds or set it to <value> seconds when abs is non zero. osd [level=<value>] Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level > 0. volume <dir> Increase/decrease volume [contrast|brightness|hue|saturation] <-100 - 100> [abs=<value>] Set/Adjust video parameters. frame_drop [type=<value>] Toggle/Set frame dropping mode. sub_visibility Toggle subtitle visibility. sub_pos <value> Adjust subtitles position. vo_fullscreen Switch to fullscreen mode. tv_step_channel <dir> Select next/previous tv channel. tv_step_norm Change TV norm. tv_step_chanlist Change channel list. gui_[loadsubtitle|about|play|stop] GUI actions FILES /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf system-wide settings ~/.mplayer/config user settings ~/.mplayer/input.conf input bindings (see '-input keylist' for full keylist) ~/.mplayer/gui.conf GUI configuration file ~/.mplayer/gui.pl GUI playlist ~/.mplayer/font/ font directory (There must be a font.desc file and files with .RAW extension.) ~/.mplayer/DVDkeys/ cracked CSS keys Sub files are searched for in this priority (for example /mnt/movie/movie.avi): /mnt/cdrom/movie.sub ~/.mplayer/sub/movie.sub ~/.mplayer/default.sub EXAMPLES Quickstart DVD playing mplayer -dvd 1 Play in japanese with english subtitles mplayer -dvd 1 -alang ja -slang en Play only chapters 5, 6, 7 mplayer -dvd 1 -chapter 5-7 Multiangle DVD playing mplayer -dvd 1 -dvdangle 2 Playing from a different DVD device mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd2 Old style DVD (VOB) playing mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS/ VTS_02_4.VOB Stream from HTTP mplayer http://mplayer.hq/example.avi Stream using RTSP mplayer rtsp://server.example.com/streamName Convert subtitle to MPsub (to ./dump.mpsub) mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.sub -dumpmpsub Input from standard V4L mplayer -tv on:driv- er=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv Encoding DVD title #2, only selected chapters mencoder -dvd 2 -chapter 10-15 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 Encoding DVD title #2, resizing to 640x480 mencoder -dvd 2 -vop scale=640:480 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 Encoding DVD title #2, resizing to 512xHHH (keep aspect ratio) mencoder -dvd 2 -vop scale -zoom -xy 512 -o ti- tle2.avi -oac copy -ovc divx4 The same, but with libavcodec family, MPEG4 (Divx5) com- pression mencoder -dvd 2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1800 -oac copy The same, but with libavcodec family, MJPEG compression mencoder -dvd 2 -o titel2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:vhq:vbitrate=1800 -oac copy Encoding all *.jpg files in the current dir mencoder \*.jpg -mf on:fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc divx4 Encoding from tuner mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -o tv.avi -ovc rawrgb Encoding from a pipe rar p test-SVCD.rar | mencoder -ovc divx4 -di- vx4opts br=800 -ofps 24 -- - Encoding multiple *.vob files cat *.vob | mencoder <options> - BUGS Probably. PLEASE, double-check the documentation (espe- cially bugreports.html), the FAQ and the mail archive be- fore! Send your complete bug reports to the MPlayer-users mail- ing list at <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu>. We love com- plete bug reports :) AUTHORS Check documentation. MPlayer is (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy This man page is written and maintained by Gabucino Diego Biurrun Jonas Jermann Please send mails about it to the MPlayer-users mailing list. STANDARD DISCLAIMER Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inac- curacies that could be damaging to your system or your eye. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely, the authors don't take any responsibility for that! 2002-10-19 MPlayer(1)