MPlayer, A Linux Video Player
by The Uni-Hacker on Apr.17, 2008, under Misc
Very fast movie player with support for almost all known and unknown multimedia formats. Most are supported natively, some with the support of binary codecs. It comes with many built-in audio and video filters that allow completely customizing video and audio. MPlayer also supports a lot of different audio and video output methods. Just to name a few: X11, Xv, SDL, OpenGL and more for video; ALSA, OSS, JACK, ESD,… for audio. For (re)encoding videos there is MPlayer’s companion program, MEncoder.
MPlayer is best used from the command line but also includes a GUI (GTK).
I have used MPlayer for a while now and I haven’t really had any major problems. Once in a great while I’ll run into a codec problem, but I seem to always find the correct codec someplace on the Internet. MPlayer can also save to a different format, which is nice for converting videos, however I would recommend something like ffmpeg for video conversion. MPlayer is probably the best rated video software available for Linux (Gnome).
Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 1.2.x. Other dependencies include:
GTK only required for (non-Windows) GUI, version 2.x preferred. Do not forget to install the headers (-devel packages) for everything you want to be supported (like X11) when compiling from source.
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