MPlayer

MPlayer is a free Multimedia player and Open source distributed under the License public general GNU version 2, and known to deal with very great number of video formats. It is accompanied by MEncoder , which is at the same time a tool of Codage (or Transcodage) and for audio and video assembly.

This two software is easy to handle in Ligne of order. There exists nevertheless several graphic environments English (: GUI, for Graphical To use Interface) for all the platforms on which MPlayer functions.

History

The development of MPlayer started in September 2000 with the Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy. Initially named mpg12play (a reader of files MPEG 1 and 2), then amalgamated with avip (a reader of files AVI), the project was joined by good of other people and progressed considerably.

In 2003, Árpád Gereöffy yielded the place to Alex Beregszászi to develop MPlayer G2 (MPlayer second generation), project currently stopped.

In 2003/2004, company KIS is shown to have copied code of MPlayer, thus violating license LPG.

Use

MPlayer being carried out in line of order, the control of the reading is carried out by means of a keyboard. It can also be done by order Infrarouge, via LIRC. For example, one can change view (full screen or window) with F , or suspend the reading (pause) with the bar space , etc The functions of each key are skeletal. With starting, the program posts all optimizations which it uses, codecs audio and video, and the video out that it will use to read the input file. Then, throughout the reading, a line of state makes it possible to know the position of the play-back heads on the audio and video tracks, their shift, the consumption of CPU, etc

MEncoder, the companion of MPlayer, is a software of Codage (or transcribing) audio and video. It can take in entry the files whose format is recognized and taken charges some by MPlayer, to code them in other formats or to apply any kind of modification to them.

MPlayer was initially called " MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux". Because of the bearing on other platforms, the name was shortened in " MPlayer - The Player" Movie;.

Characteristics

Here a nonexhaustive list of what deals with MPlayer:

  • Subtitles dealt with: VobSud, Ogm, DC (closed caption), MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SA, PJS (Phoenix Japanimation Society), MPsub, AQTitle, JACOsub.

MPlayer is able to convert the majority of the subtitles into various formats, like extracting the subtitles from DVD.

It can play several types of video in Streaming on Internet and can also record them in a file.

Here a nonexhaustive list of the protocols which it supports:

  • Streaming : HTTP, ftp, RTP, RTSP, ms, ms, MPST (netstream) or SDP.

This software can be installed on almost all the operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, IRIX etc). An adaptation to other operating systems is possible owing to the fact that the sources are freely consultable and modifiable.

MPlayer is also famous for its speed and its consumption of CPU reduced by the use of optimizations for the majority of the Processeurs.

External bonds

  • Official site
  • List of the codecs supported
  • MPlayer on MacOSX
  • MPlayer on Windows
  • RulesPlayer: MPlayer for Windows
  • MPlayerXP: fork of MPlayer, based on threads
  • SMPlayer: MPlayer face-end on Windows and Linux

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