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Talk:Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T22:19:49Z

Aphirst: /* MPV */

==Level of detail==
Is it necessary to add installation instructions for every combination of player and distribution, or
should we just add a generic section referring users to their package manager to install software?
Also don't most distributions already come with a load of players preinstalled, so perhaps we can just list the configuration options
required to get the most out of them. /[[User:Daf0x|Daf0x]]

* I think it's important to list the different methods for package managers, it helps Linux n00bs figure out the system they use, it's very encouraging. Those preinstalled players are usually just useless frontends to broken MPlayer and Xine installations. Never mind encouraging mediocrity, it's easier to get people in the mindset of starting from scratch. All we need is instructions for a fully codec'd up MPlayer and Xine, as those are the most popular players. /[[User:iddqd|iddqd]]
** Those pre-installed players are actually frontends for gstreamer and xine, but I agree. -[[User:Raylu|Raylu]] 17:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

* I agree with iddqd, that's the way I will keep the wiki too. I won't like it if people go erasing the work unless you have a good reason. --[[User:Koolabsol|Calvin]] 02:56, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

* I made some changes, but there is still some work to be done, mostly by people familiar with distros that I am not. [[User:Xiong Chiamiov|Xiong Chiamiov]] 08:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

==Nov '09, March '10==
I don't understand the logic for those two edits by Koolabsol. Why was the option to compile MPlayer from source removed? The other changes break formatting consistency. I'm reverting to my last edit in October '09 and reapplying some of the typos he fixed. -[[User:Raylu|Raylu]] 17:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

:Well whoops. Sorry about that. Hope you don't mind me adding back in some of the changes I made. Hopefully I don't delete entire sections this time. --[[User:Koolabsol|Koolabsol]] 19:22, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

== MPV ==

Would there be any objection if I were to add [http://mpv.io MPV] to the list of recommended media players, along with a section on how to use it, and some recommended config-file options? --[[User:Aphirst|Aphirst]] ([[User talk:Aphirst|talk]]) 23:19, 3 January 2014 (CET)

Talk:Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T22:19:15Z

Aphirst: /* MPV */

Talk:Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T22:18:41Z

Aphirst: /* MPV */ new section

==Level of detail==
Is it necessary to add installation instructions for every combination of player and distribution, or
should we just add a generic section referring users to their package manager to install software?
Also don't most distributions already come with a load of players preinstalled, so perhaps we can just list the configuration options
required to get the most out of them. /[[User:Daf0x|Daf0x]]

* I think it's important to list the different methods for package managers, it helps Linux n00bs figure out the system they use, it's very encouraging. Those preinstalled players are usually just useless frontends to broken MPlayer and Xine installations. Never mind encouraging mediocrity, it's easier to get people in the mindset of starting from scratch. All we need is instructions for a fully codec'd up MPlayer and Xine, as those are the most popular players. /[[User:iddqd|iddqd]]
** Those pre-installed players are actually frontends for gstreamer and xine, but I agree. -[[User:Raylu|Raylu]] 17:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

* I agree with iddqd, that's the way I will keep the wiki too. I won't like it if people go erasing the work unless you have a good reason. --[[User:Koolabsol|Calvin]] 02:56, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

* I made some changes, but there is still some work to be done, mostly by people familiar with distros that I am not. [[User:Xiong Chiamiov|Xiong Chiamiov]] 08:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

==Nov '09, March '10==
I don't understand the logic for those two edits by Koolabsol. Why was the option to compile MPlayer from source removed? The other changes break formatting consistency. I'm reverting to my last edit in October '09 and reapplying some of the typos he fixed. -[[User:Raylu|Raylu]] 17:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

:Well whoops. Sorry about that. Hope you don't mind me adding back in some of the changes I made. Hopefully I don't delete entire sections this time. --[[User:Koolabsol|Koolabsol]] 19:22, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

== MPV ==

Would there be any objection if I were to add [mpv.io MPV] to the list of recommended media players, along with a section on how to use it, and some recommended config-file options?

Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T22:17:12Z

Aphirst: Medibuntu repository no longer exists, packages now available in main repos according to http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Saucy_Restricted_Extras

==Recommended Media Players==
;* [[Wikipedia:MPlayer|MPlayer]]
;* [[Wikipedia:SMPlayer|SMPlayer]] (graphical interface for MPlayer)
;* [http://www.mplayer2.org/ MPlayer2]

==MPlayer==
===Installation===
Perform one of the following commands as root, depending on your distribution. If you do not find information pertaining to the distribution you use, refer to your distributions documentation.

====Debian Based Distributions====
mplayer is packaged for Debian. As root:
apt-get install mplayer

However, this is often not the newest release (especially if you are running Debian stable) and does not contain support for all codecs. In particular, very old builds may not have 10-bit support. Such users will want to install newer packages:

* Double-check what version of Debian you are running (''<tt>cat /etc/debian_version</tt>''). If it contains any (or more than one) of the words "wheezy", "jessie", "sid", "testing", or "unstable", or a number starting with 7.0, you're already current enough and the command above should do.
: If it is a number starting with '''6.0''', consider upgrading your system, as this is now an old release. If that's not an option, continue on:
* Visit http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions under "Add backports to your sources.list".
* As root, run
<tt>apt-get -t squeeze-backports install mplayer</tt>

====Old codec (RealVideo) support====

The "official" Debian mplayer packages are now (as of 2012) much better than they used to be, and so you probably don't need to load third-party repositories any longer. However, if you need to decode old RealVideo or QuickTime files, you might need them for the binary-only decoders. In that case only:

* Visit http://deb-multimedia.org/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions in the red boxes.
* As root,
<tt>apt-get update && apt-get install mplayer deb-multimedia-keyring</tt>

apt-get will warn you about unsigned packages the first time you run this; allow them. Installing the keyring package will eliminate those warnings for future upgrades.

For RealVideo support, then install the packages <tt>w32codecs</tt> (32-bit OS) or <tt>w64codecs</tt> (64-bit OS).

====Ubuntu====
To be sure that you can play video files encoded using certain proprietary codecs, it may be useful to install <tt>w32codecs</tt> (32-bit) or <tt>w64codecs</tt> (64-bit) from the package manager. Not all users will require this, but many find it useful all the same. This package is one of those installed as part of <tt>ubuntu-restricted-extras</tt>. A full list of the codecs which require this package is available [http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/package/w32codecs here].

Since mplayer is a command-line application, it might be useful to install a GUI front-end like gnome-mplayer like so:

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer

====OpenSuse====
zypper in mplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
MPlayer is not in the official Fedora repositories. You will have to add and enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories before being able to install MPlayer.
yum install mplayer

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S mplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva mplayer

===MPlayer codecs===
Not all distributions include the full set of MPlayer codecs in their repositories, although these are often not needed except for Real or Quicktime videos. To install the full set follow these easy steps.

# Download: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Extract with: tar xvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Copy the codecs (but not the directory) to the MPlayer codec directory. Default is /usr/lib/win32

===GPU Acceleration===
====NVIDIA VDPAU====
If you use an NVIDIA GPU be sure to install their latest binary drivers as they offer a feature that enables offloading video decoding from the CPU to GPU which may provide smoother video playback, especially for h264 encoded videos, while keeping CPU usage at low levels. Check your MPlayer configuration to use the VDPAU video output (–vo vdpau). Type "mplayer –vo help" to list available outputs.

Note that this generally offers no advantage (yet) for Hi10p encodes, which are not hardware supported. With modern desktop CPUs — roughly 2011 or newer — GPU decoding may actually be ''slower'' for some files. If you encounter stuttering with one setting, try it the other way: "–vo xv" for CPU decoding, "–vo vdpau" for GPU decoding.

* Debian, Ubuntu users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms</tt>

====ATI====
The open-source video driver now supports AMD's UVD hardware-decoding functionality via VDPAU (with <tt>linux 3.11</tt> and later).

The proprietary video driver provides hardware accelerated video decoding (and indeed, only works at all) for R600+ based GPUs.
* Debian users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install fglrx-glx fglrx-modules-dkms</tt>
* Ubuntu users: <tt>apt-get install fglrx</tt>
* Other distributions usually package the driver as either <tt>fglrx</tt> or <tt>catalyst</tt>
'''Note: The above packages are only valid for HD5000 chipsets and over, HD2000-4000 users should check their distribution's documentation for how to install the legacy variant.'''

Exposing the video decoding capabilities over VA-API (e.g. for use with VLC, mplayer or xine) requires the additional package <tt>xvba-video</tt>. XBMC (only) can natively use AMD's XvBA (the Linux DXVA equivalent) built-into the proprietary driver. Neither MPlayer nor MPlayer2 support VA-API in their standard releases, but there is an MPlayer branch <tt>mplayer-vaapi</tt> with VA-API capability.

===MPlayer tweaks===
This is a sample configuration file tailored for specific preferences. The MPlayer configuration file can be found at: <tt>~/.mplayer/config</tt>. All of the options are documented in [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html the manual].

# If you have a multicore CPU, use as many threads as you have cores.
lavdopts=threads=4
# Use the GPU accelerated video output driver if available. If not, fall back
# to xv (which offers good speed on most cards) as a safe backup.
# For audio output, always use ALSA.
# Sometimes "vo=xv,vdpau," gives better results! Test on your own system.
vo=vdpau,xv,
ao=alsa
# 4 audio channels for surround sound files
channels=4
# Default audio and subtitle tracks. (Not all files use the correct tags,
# so sometimes it will be necessary to switch streams manually with '#' and 'j'
# or from the command line with "-aid x" and "-sid x")
alang=jp,jpn,
slang=en,eng,
# Find ASS subs and use the fonts provided in the file if possible
ass=1
embeddedfonts=1
fontconfig=1
# The highest level of subtitle anti-aliasing
spuaa=4
# Less stdout text
quiet=1

====MPlayer Tricks====
MPlayer has a large collection of video filters included. You may use them to achieve different results.

* Play interlaced video without combing:
mplayer -vf pullup myvideo.ext
* Increase saturation and contrast:
mplayer -vf eq2=0.8 myvideo.ext
* Remove "mosquito" noise:
mplayer -vf hqdn3d myvideo.ext
* Make crappy video look good:
mplayer -vf pp7 myvideo.ext
* Combine:
mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts -vf pullup,eq2=0.8,unsharp=l3x3:0.2,hqdn3d myvideo.ext

==SMPlayer==
SMPlayer provides a QT based front-end to MPlayer. It contains useful features such as saving the video position allowing you to continue watching the video from that point at a later date.

===Installing SMPlayer===
====Debian Based Distributions (Including Ubuntu)====
sudo apt-get install smplayer
You can also:
* Download the .deb file from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer website] or
* Add the SMPlayer repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
8.04 (hardy):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu hardy main
8.10 (intrepid):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu intrepid main

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S smplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva smplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
You will need to enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories to be able to install SMplayer.
yum install smplayer

====Building from Source (Compiling)====
Grab the tarball from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer download page]. Decompress it, cd into the directory, and run
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you don't have sudo installed/configured, then the last step will be instead
su
make install

===SMPlayer tweaks===
After installation you may want to configure SMPlayer. Start SMPlayer, open the options (Ctrl + P), go to the subtitles section, within the section go to the SSA/ASS library tab and check the check box for using SSA/ASS library.

If you see a black screen at playing, the colors don't seem to be right, or playback is too slow, you may need to change the video rendering mode. To do this go to the Options > general section > general tab > output drivers > Video, and set it to <tt>x11</tt> - this will use software rendering. Alternatively you can use <tt>xv</tt> for XVideo rendering or either <tt>gl</tt> or <tt>gl2</tt> for OpenGL rendering. In general you should try these options in the following order for best quality and performance: <tt>xv</tt>, <tt>gl2</tt>, <tt>gl</tt> and finally <tt>x11</tt>.

==MPlayer2==
A fork of the original MPlayer project. Although it was the first *nix player to add 10bit support, MPlayer added it later as well; for playback purposes, there is not currently a strong reason to use one over the other besides personal preference.

===Installation===
The following installation works for Debian 7 Wheezy stable, and should work for any newer Debian (testing/unstable/future stable releases). It might work for Ubuntu, but I have not tested this. It will not work for a distribution that does not use DEBs.

<tt>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer2</tt>

Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T17:15:22Z

Aphirst: /* ATI */

==Recommended Media Players==
;* [[Wikipedia:MPlayer|MPlayer]]
;* [[Wikipedia:SMPlayer|SMPlayer]] (graphical interface for MPlayer)
;* [http://www.mplayer2.org/ MPlayer2]

==MPlayer==
===Installation===
Perform one of the following commands as root, depending on your distribution. If you do not find information pertaining to the distribution you use, refer to your distributions documentation.

====Debian Based Distributions====
mplayer is packaged for Debian. As root:
apt-get install mplayer

However, this is often not the newest release (especially if you are running Debian stable) and does not contain support for all codecs. In particular, very old builds may not have 10-bit support. Such users will want to install newer packages:

* Double-check what version of Debian you are running (''<tt>cat /etc/debian_version</tt>''). If it contains any (or more than one) of the words "wheezy", "jessie", "sid", "testing", or "unstable", or a number starting with 7.0, you're already current enough and the command above should do.
: If it is a number starting with '''6.0''', consider upgrading your system, as this is now an old release. If that's not an option, continue on:
* Visit http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions under "Add backports to your sources.list".
* As root, run
<tt>apt-get -t squeeze-backports install mplayer</tt>

====Old codec (RealVideo) support====

The "official" Debian mplayer packages are now (as of 2012) much better than they used to be, and so you probably don't need to load third-party repositories any longer. However, if you need to decode old RealVideo or QuickTime files, you might need them for the binary-only decoders. In that case only:

* Visit http://deb-multimedia.org/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions in the red boxes.
* As root,
<tt>apt-get update && apt-get install mplayer deb-multimedia-keyring</tt>

apt-get will warn you about unsigned packages the first time you run this; allow them. Installing the keyring package will eliminate those warnings for future upgrades.

For RealVideo support, then install the packages <tt>w32codecs</tt> (32-bit OS) or <tt>w64codecs</tt> (64-bit OS).

====Ubuntu====
The MPlayer version in the default Ubuntu repositories is usually outdated. The [http://medibuntu.org/ Medibuntu] repository has the latest version of MPlayer as well as the extra codecs.

To add the Mediabuntu repository, paste the following into a terminal (from the [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu Mediabuntu wiki])

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

After that install MPlayer and the codec pack:

(32-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w32codecs

(64-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w64codecs

Since mplayer is a command-line application, it might be useful to install a GUI front-end like gnome-mplayer like so:

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer

====OpenSuse====
zypper in mplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
MPlayer is not in the official Fedora repositories. You will have to add and enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories before being able to install MPlayer.
yum install mplayer

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S mplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva mplayer

===MPlayer codecs===
Not all distributions include the full set of MPlayer codecs in their repositories, although these are often not needed except for Real or Quicktime videos. To install the full set follow these easy steps.

# Download: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Extract with: tar xvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Copy the codecs (but not the directory) to the MPlayer codec directory. Default is /usr/lib/win32

===GPU Acceleration===
====NVIDIA VDPAU====
If you use an NVIDIA GPU be sure to install their latest binary drivers as they offer a feature that enables offloading video decoding from the CPU to GPU which may provide smoother video playback, especially for h264 encoded videos, while keeping CPU usage at low levels. Check your MPlayer configuration to use the VDPAU video output (–vo vdpau). Type "mplayer –vo help" to list available outputs.

Note that this generally offers no advantage (yet) for Hi10p encodes, which are not hardware supported. With modern desktop CPUs — roughly 2011 or newer — GPU decoding may actually be ''slower'' for some files. If you encounter stuttering with one setting, try it the other way: "–vo xv" for CPU decoding, "–vo vdpau" for GPU decoding.

* Debian, Ubuntu users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms</tt>

====ATI====
The open-source video driver now supports AMD's UVD hardware-decoding functionality via VDPAU (with <tt>linux 3.11</tt> and later).

The proprietary video driver provides hardware accelerated video decoding (and indeed, only works at all) for R600+ based GPUs.
* Debian users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install fglrx-glx fglrx-modules-dkms</tt>
* Ubuntu users: <tt>apt-get install fglrx</tt>
* Other distributions usually package the driver as either <tt>fglrx</tt> or <tt>catalyst</tt>
'''Note: The above packages are only valid for HD5000 chipsets and over, HD2000-4000 users should check their distribution's documentation for how to install the legacy variant.'''

Exposing the video decoding capabilities over VA-API (e.g. for use with VLC, mplayer or xine) requires the additional package <tt>xvba-video</tt>. XBMC (only) can natively use AMD's XvBA (the Linux DXVA equivalent) built-into the proprietary driver. Neither MPlayer nor MPlayer2 support VA-API in their standard releases, but there is an MPlayer branch <tt>mplayer-vaapi</tt> with VA-API capability.

===MPlayer tweaks===
This is a sample configuration file tailored for specific preferences. The MPlayer configuration file can be found at: <tt>~/.mplayer/config</tt>. All of the options are documented in [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html the manual].

# If you have a multicore CPU, use as many threads as you have cores.
lavdopts=threads=4
# Use the GPU accelerated video output driver if available. If not, fall back
# to xv (which offers good speed on most cards) as a safe backup.
# For audio output, always use ALSA.
# Sometimes "vo=xv,vdpau," gives better results! Test on your own system.
vo=vdpau,xv,
ao=alsa
# 4 audio channels for surround sound files
channels=4
# Default audio and subtitle tracks. (Not all files use the correct tags,
# so sometimes it will be necessary to switch streams manually with '#' and 'j'
# or from the command line with "-aid x" and "-sid x")
alang=jp,jpn,
slang=en,eng,
# Find ASS subs and use the fonts provided in the file if possible
ass=1
embeddedfonts=1
fontconfig=1
# The highest level of subtitle anti-aliasing
spuaa=4
# Less stdout text
quiet=1

====MPlayer Tricks====
MPlayer has a large collection of video filters included. You may use them to achieve different results.

* Play interlaced video without combing:
mplayer -vf pullup myvideo.ext
* Increase saturation and contrast:
mplayer -vf eq2=0.8 myvideo.ext
* Remove "mosquito" noise:
mplayer -vf hqdn3d myvideo.ext
* Make crappy video look good:
mplayer -vf pp7 myvideo.ext
* Combine:
mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts -vf pullup,eq2=0.8,unsharp=l3x3:0.2,hqdn3d myvideo.ext

==SMPlayer==
SMPlayer provides a QT based front-end to MPlayer. It contains useful features such as saving the video position allowing you to continue watching the video from that point at a later date.

===Installing SMPlayer===
====Debian Based Distributions (Including Ubuntu)====
sudo apt-get install smplayer
You can also:
* Download the .deb file from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer website] or
* Add the SMPlayer repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
8.04 (hardy):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu hardy main
8.10 (intrepid):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu intrepid main

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S smplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva smplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
You will need to enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories to be able to install SMplayer.
yum install smplayer

====Building from Source (Compiling)====
Grab the tarball from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer download page]. Decompress it, cd into the directory, and run
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you don't have sudo installed/configured, then the last step will be instead
su
make install

===SMPlayer tweaks===
After installation you may want to configure SMPlayer. Start SMPlayer, open the options (Ctrl + P), go to the subtitles section, within the section go to the SSA/ASS library tab and check the check box for using SSA/ASS library.

If you see a black screen at playing, the colors don't seem to be right, or playback is too slow, you may need to change the video rendering mode. To do this go to the Options > general section > general tab > output drivers > Video, and set it to <tt>x11</tt> - this will use software rendering. Alternatively you can use <tt>xv</tt> for XVideo rendering or either <tt>gl</tt> or <tt>gl2</tt> for OpenGL rendering. In general you should try these options in the following order for best quality and performance: <tt>xv</tt>, <tt>gl2</tt>, <tt>gl</tt> and finally <tt>x11</tt>.

==MPlayer2==
A fork of the original MPlayer project. Although it was the first *nix player to add 10bit support, MPlayer added it later as well; for playback purposes, there is not currently a strong reason to use one over the other besides personal preference.

===Installation===
The following installation works for Debian 7 Wheezy stable, and should work for any newer Debian (testing/unstable/future stable releases). It might work for Ubuntu, but I have not tested this. It will not work for a distribution that does not use DEBs.

<tt>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer2</tt>

Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T17:15:04Z

Aphirst: /* ATI */

==Recommended Media Players==
;* [[Wikipedia:MPlayer|MPlayer]]
;* [[Wikipedia:SMPlayer|SMPlayer]] (graphical interface for MPlayer)
;* [http://www.mplayer2.org/ MPlayer2]

==MPlayer==
===Installation===
Perform one of the following commands as root, depending on your distribution. If you do not find information pertaining to the distribution you use, refer to your distributions documentation.

====Debian Based Distributions====
mplayer is packaged for Debian. As root:
apt-get install mplayer

However, this is often not the newest release (especially if you are running Debian stable) and does not contain support for all codecs. In particular, very old builds may not have 10-bit support. Such users will want to install newer packages:

* Double-check what version of Debian you are running (''<tt>cat /etc/debian_version</tt>''). If it contains any (or more than one) of the words "wheezy", "jessie", "sid", "testing", or "unstable", or a number starting with 7.0, you're already current enough and the command above should do.
: If it is a number starting with '''6.0''', consider upgrading your system, as this is now an old release. If that's not an option, continue on:
* Visit http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions under "Add backports to your sources.list".
* As root, run
<tt>apt-get -t squeeze-backports install mplayer</tt>

====Old codec (RealVideo) support====

The "official" Debian mplayer packages are now (as of 2012) much better than they used to be, and so you probably don't need to load third-party repositories any longer. However, if you need to decode old RealVideo or QuickTime files, you might need them for the binary-only decoders. In that case only:

* Visit http://deb-multimedia.org/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions in the red boxes.
* As root,
<tt>apt-get update && apt-get install mplayer deb-multimedia-keyring</tt>

apt-get will warn you about unsigned packages the first time you run this; allow them. Installing the keyring package will eliminate those warnings for future upgrades.

For RealVideo support, then install the packages <tt>w32codecs</tt> (32-bit OS) or <tt>w64codecs</tt> (64-bit OS).

====Ubuntu====
The MPlayer version in the default Ubuntu repositories is usually outdated. The [http://medibuntu.org/ Medibuntu] repository has the latest version of MPlayer as well as the extra codecs.

To add the Mediabuntu repository, paste the following into a terminal (from the [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu Mediabuntu wiki])

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

After that install MPlayer and the codec pack:

(32-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w32codecs

(64-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w64codecs

Since mplayer is a command-line application, it might be useful to install a GUI front-end like gnome-mplayer like so:

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer

====OpenSuse====
zypper in mplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
MPlayer is not in the official Fedora repositories. You will have to add and enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories before being able to install MPlayer.
yum install mplayer

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S mplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva mplayer

===MPlayer codecs===
Not all distributions include the full set of MPlayer codecs in their repositories, although these are often not needed except for Real or Quicktime videos. To install the full set follow these easy steps.

# Download: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Extract with: tar xvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Copy the codecs (but not the directory) to the MPlayer codec directory. Default is /usr/lib/win32

===GPU Acceleration===
====NVIDIA VDPAU====
If you use an NVIDIA GPU be sure to install their latest binary drivers as they offer a feature that enables offloading video decoding from the CPU to GPU which may provide smoother video playback, especially for h264 encoded videos, while keeping CPU usage at low levels. Check your MPlayer configuration to use the VDPAU video output (–vo vdpau). Type "mplayer –vo help" to list available outputs.

Note that this generally offers no advantage (yet) for Hi10p encodes, which are not hardware supported. With modern desktop CPUs — roughly 2011 or newer — GPU decoding may actually be ''slower'' for some files. If you encounter stuttering with one setting, try it the other way: "–vo xv" for CPU decoding, "–vo vdpau" for GPU decoding.

* Debian, Ubuntu users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms</tt>

====ATI====
The open-source video driver now supports AMD's UVD hardware-decoding functionality via VDPAU (with <tt>linux 3.11</tt> and later).

The proprietary video driver provides hardware accelerated video decoding (and indeed, only works at all) for R600+ based GPUs.
* Debian users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install fglrx-glx fglrx-modules-dkms</tt>
* Ubuntu users: <tt>apt-get install fglrx</tt>
* Other distributions usually package the driver as either <tt>fglrx</tt> or <tt>catalyst</tt>
'''Note: The above packages are only valid for HD5000 chipsets and over, HD2000-4000 users should check their distribution's documentation for how to install the legacy variant.'''

Exposing the video decoding capabilities over VA-API (e.g. for use with VLC, mplayer or xine) requires the additional package <tt>xvba-video</tt>. XBMC (only) can natively use AMD's XvBA (the Linux DXVA equivalent) built-into the proprietary driver. Neither MPlayer nor MPlayer2 supoort VA-API in their standard releases, but there is an MPlayer branch <tt>mplayer-vaapi</tt> with VA-API capability.

===MPlayer tweaks===
This is a sample configuration file tailored for specific preferences. The MPlayer configuration file can be found at: <tt>~/.mplayer/config</tt>. All of the options are documented in [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html the manual].

# If you have a multicore CPU, use as many threads as you have cores.
lavdopts=threads=4
# Use the GPU accelerated video output driver if available. If not, fall back
# to xv (which offers good speed on most cards) as a safe backup.
# For audio output, always use ALSA.
# Sometimes "vo=xv,vdpau," gives better results! Test on your own system.
vo=vdpau,xv,
ao=alsa
# 4 audio channels for surround sound files
channels=4
# Default audio and subtitle tracks. (Not all files use the correct tags,
# so sometimes it will be necessary to switch streams manually with '#' and 'j'
# or from the command line with "-aid x" and "-sid x")
alang=jp,jpn,
slang=en,eng,
# Find ASS subs and use the fonts provided in the file if possible
ass=1
embeddedfonts=1
fontconfig=1
# The highest level of subtitle anti-aliasing
spuaa=4
# Less stdout text
quiet=1

====MPlayer Tricks====
MPlayer has a large collection of video filters included. You may use them to achieve different results.

* Play interlaced video without combing:
mplayer -vf pullup myvideo.ext
* Increase saturation and contrast:
mplayer -vf eq2=0.8 myvideo.ext
* Remove "mosquito" noise:
mplayer -vf hqdn3d myvideo.ext
* Make crappy video look good:
mplayer -vf pp7 myvideo.ext
* Combine:
mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts -vf pullup,eq2=0.8,unsharp=l3x3:0.2,hqdn3d myvideo.ext

==SMPlayer==
SMPlayer provides a QT based front-end to MPlayer. It contains useful features such as saving the video position allowing you to continue watching the video from that point at a later date.

===Installing SMPlayer===
====Debian Based Distributions (Including Ubuntu)====
sudo apt-get install smplayer
You can also:
* Download the .deb file from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer website] or
* Add the SMPlayer repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
8.04 (hardy):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu hardy main
8.10 (intrepid):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu intrepid main

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S smplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva smplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
You will need to enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories to be able to install SMplayer.
yum install smplayer

====Building from Source (Compiling)====
Grab the tarball from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer download page]. Decompress it, cd into the directory, and run
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you don't have sudo installed/configured, then the last step will be instead
su
make install

===SMPlayer tweaks===
After installation you may want to configure SMPlayer. Start SMPlayer, open the options (Ctrl + P), go to the subtitles section, within the section go to the SSA/ASS library tab and check the check box for using SSA/ASS library.

If you see a black screen at playing, the colors don't seem to be right, or playback is too slow, you may need to change the video rendering mode. To do this go to the Options > general section > general tab > output drivers > Video, and set it to <tt>x11</tt> - this will use software rendering. Alternatively you can use <tt>xv</tt> for XVideo rendering or either <tt>gl</tt> or <tt>gl2</tt> for OpenGL rendering. In general you should try these options in the following order for best quality and performance: <tt>xv</tt>, <tt>gl2</tt>, <tt>gl</tt> and finally <tt>x11</tt>.

==MPlayer2==
A fork of the original MPlayer project. Although it was the first *nix player to add 10bit support, MPlayer added it later as well; for playback purposes, there is not currently a strong reason to use one over the other besides personal preference.

===Installation===
The following installation works for Debian 7 Wheezy stable, and should work for any newer Debian (testing/unstable/future stable releases). It might work for Ubuntu, but I have not tested this. It will not work for a distribution that does not use DEBs.

<tt>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer2</tt>

Linux Video Playback

2014-01-03T17:13:04Z

Aphirst:

==Recommended Media Players==
;* [[Wikipedia:MPlayer|MPlayer]]
;* [[Wikipedia:SMPlayer|SMPlayer]] (graphical interface for MPlayer)
;* [http://www.mplayer2.org/ MPlayer2]

==MPlayer==
===Installation===
Perform one of the following commands as root, depending on your distribution. If you do not find information pertaining to the distribution you use, refer to your distributions documentation.

====Debian Based Distributions====
mplayer is packaged for Debian. As root:
apt-get install mplayer

However, this is often not the newest release (especially if you are running Debian stable) and does not contain support for all codecs. In particular, very old builds may not have 10-bit support. Such users will want to install newer packages:

* Double-check what version of Debian you are running (''<tt>cat /etc/debian_version</tt>''). If it contains any (or more than one) of the words "wheezy", "jessie", "sid", "testing", or "unstable", or a number starting with 7.0, you're already current enough and the command above should do.
: If it is a number starting with '''6.0''', consider upgrading your system, as this is now an old release. If that's not an option, continue on:
* Visit http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions under "Add backports to your sources.list".
* As root, run
<tt>apt-get -t squeeze-backports install mplayer</tt>

====Old codec (RealVideo) support====

The "official" Debian mplayer packages are now (as of 2012) much better than they used to be, and so you probably don't need to load third-party repositories any longer. However, if you need to decode old RealVideo or QuickTime files, you might need them for the binary-only decoders. In that case only:

* Visit http://deb-multimedia.org/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions in the red boxes.
* As root,
<tt>apt-get update && apt-get install mplayer deb-multimedia-keyring</tt>

apt-get will warn you about unsigned packages the first time you run this; allow them. Installing the keyring package will eliminate those warnings for future upgrades.

For RealVideo support, then install the packages <tt>w32codecs</tt> (32-bit OS) or <tt>w64codecs</tt> (64-bit OS).

====Ubuntu====
The MPlayer version in the default Ubuntu repositories is usually outdated. The [http://medibuntu.org/ Medibuntu] repository has the latest version of MPlayer as well as the extra codecs.

To add the Mediabuntu repository, paste the following into a terminal (from the [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu Mediabuntu wiki])

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

After that install MPlayer and the codec pack:

(32-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w32codecs

(64-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w64codecs

Since mplayer is a command-line application, it might be useful to install a GUI front-end like gnome-mplayer like so:

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer

====OpenSuse====
zypper in mplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
MPlayer is not in the official Fedora repositories. You will have to add and enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories before being able to install MPlayer.
yum install mplayer

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S mplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva mplayer

===MPlayer codecs===
Not all distributions include the full set of MPlayer codecs in their repositories, although these are often not needed except for Real or Quicktime videos. To install the full set follow these easy steps.

# Download: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Extract with: tar xvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Copy the codecs (but not the directory) to the MPlayer codec directory. Default is /usr/lib/win32

===GPU Acceleration===
====NVIDIA VDPAU====
If you use an NVIDIA GPU be sure to install their latest binary drivers as they offer a feature that enables offloading video decoding from the CPU to GPU which may provide smoother video playback, especially for h264 encoded videos, while keeping CPU usage at low levels. Check your MPlayer configuration to use the VDPAU video output (–vo vdpau). Type "mplayer –vo help" to list available outputs.

Note that this generally offers no advantage (yet) for Hi10p encodes, which are not hardware supported. With modern desktop CPUs — roughly 2011 or newer — GPU decoding may actually be ''slower'' for some files. If you encounter stuttering with one setting, try it the other way: "–vo xv" for CPU decoding, "–vo vdpau" for GPU decoding.

* Debian, Ubuntu users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms</tt>

====ATI====
The open-source video driver now supports AMD's UVD hardware-decoding functionality via VDPAU (with <tt>linux 3.11</tt> and later).

The proprietary video driver provides hardware accelerated video decoding (and indeed, only works at all) for R600+ based GPUs.
* Debian users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install fglrx-glx fglrx-modules-dkms</tt>
* Ubuntu users: <tt>apt-get install fglrx</tt>
* Other distributions usually package the driver as either <tt>fglrx</tt> or <tt>catalyst</tt>
'''Note: The above packages are only valid for HD5000 chipsets and over, HD2000-4000 users should check their distribution's documentation for how to install the legacy variant.'''

Exposing the video decoding capabilities over VA-API (e.g. for use with VLC, mplayer or xine) requires the additional package <tt>xvba-video</tt>. XBMC (only) can natively use AMD's XvBA (the Linux DXVA equivalent) built-into the proprietary driver.

===MPlayer tweaks===
This is a sample configuration file tailored for specific preferences. The MPlayer configuration file can be found at: <tt>~/.mplayer/config</tt>. All of the options are documented in [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html the manual].

# If you have a multicore CPU, use as many threads as you have cores.
lavdopts=threads=4
# Use the GPU accelerated video output driver if available. If not, fall back
# to xv (which offers good speed on most cards) as a safe backup.
# For audio output, always use ALSA.
# Sometimes "vo=xv,vdpau," gives better results! Test on your own system.
vo=vdpau,xv,
ao=alsa
# 4 audio channels for surround sound files
channels=4
# Default audio and subtitle tracks. (Not all files use the correct tags,
# so sometimes it will be necessary to switch streams manually with '#' and 'j'
# or from the command line with "-aid x" and "-sid x")
alang=jp,jpn,
slang=en,eng,
# Find ASS subs and use the fonts provided in the file if possible
ass=1
embeddedfonts=1
fontconfig=1
# The highest level of subtitle anti-aliasing
spuaa=4
# Less stdout text
quiet=1

====MPlayer Tricks====
MPlayer has a large collection of video filters included. You may use them to achieve different results.

* Play interlaced video without combing:
mplayer -vf pullup myvideo.ext
* Increase saturation and contrast:
mplayer -vf eq2=0.8 myvideo.ext
* Remove "mosquito" noise:
mplayer -vf hqdn3d myvideo.ext
* Make crappy video look good:
mplayer -vf pp7 myvideo.ext
* Combine:
mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts -vf pullup,eq2=0.8,unsharp=l3x3:0.2,hqdn3d myvideo.ext

==SMPlayer==
SMPlayer provides a QT based front-end to MPlayer. It contains useful features such as saving the video position allowing you to continue watching the video from that point at a later date.

===Installing SMPlayer===
====Debian Based Distributions (Including Ubuntu)====
sudo apt-get install smplayer
You can also:
* Download the .deb file from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer website] or
* Add the SMPlayer repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
8.04 (hardy):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu hardy main
8.10 (intrepid):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu intrepid main

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S smplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva smplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
You will need to enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories to be able to install SMplayer.
yum install smplayer

====Building from Source (Compiling)====
Grab the tarball from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer download page]. Decompress it, cd into the directory, and run
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you don't have sudo installed/configured, then the last step will be instead
su
make install

===SMPlayer tweaks===
After installation you may want to configure SMPlayer. Start SMPlayer, open the options (Ctrl + P), go to the subtitles section, within the section go to the SSA/ASS library tab and check the check box for using SSA/ASS library.

If you see a black screen at playing, the colors don't seem to be right, or playback is too slow, you may need to change the video rendering mode. To do this go to the Options > general section > general tab > output drivers > Video, and set it to <tt>x11</tt> - this will use software rendering. Alternatively you can use <tt>xv</tt> for XVideo rendering or either <tt>gl</tt> or <tt>gl2</tt> for OpenGL rendering. In general you should try these options in the following order for best quality and performance: <tt>xv</tt>, <tt>gl2</tt>, <tt>gl</tt> and finally <tt>x11</tt>.

==MPlayer2==
A fork of the original MPlayer project. Although it was the first *nix player to add 10bit support, MPlayer added it later as well; for playback purposes, there is not currently a strong reason to use one over the other besides personal preference.

===Installation===
The following installation works for Debian 7 Wheezy stable, and should work for any newer Debian (testing/unstable/future stable releases). It might work for Ubuntu, but I have not tested this. It will not work for a distribution that does not use DEBs.

<tt>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer2</tt>

Linux Video Playback

2013-06-05T12:53:48Z

Aphirst: Just fleshing out the ATI section, call me out if there's a problem

==Recommended Media Players==
;* [[Wikipedia:MPlayer|MPlayer]]
;* [[Wikipedia:SMPlayer|SMPlayer]] (graphical interface for MPlayer)
;* [http://www.mplayer2.org/ MPlayer2]

==MPlayer==
===Installation===
Perform one of the following commands as root, depending on your distribution. If you do not find information pertaining to the distribution you use, refer to your distributions documentation.

====Debian Based Distributions====
mplayer is packaged for Debian. As root:
apt-get install mplayer

However, this is often not the newest release (especially if you are running Debian stable) and does not contain support for all codecs. In particular, very old builds may not have 10-bit support. Such users will want to install newer packages:

* Double-check what version of Debian you are running (''<tt>cat /etc/debian_version</tt>''). If it contains any (or more than one) of the words "wheezy", "jessie", "sid", "testing", or "unstable", or a number starting with 7.0, you're already current enough and the command above should do.
: If it is a number starting with '''6.0''', consider upgrading your system, as this is now an old release. If that's not an option, continue on:
* Visit http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions under "Add backports to your sources.list".
* As root, run
<tt>apt-get -t squeeze-backports install mplayer</tt>

====Old codec (RealVideo) support====

The "official" Debian mplayer packages are now (as of 2012) much better than they used to be, and so you probably don't need to load third-party repositories any longer. However, if you need to decode old RealVideo or QuickTime files, you might need them for the binary-only decoders. In that case only:

* Visit http://deb-multimedia.org/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions in the red boxes.
* As root,
<tt>apt-get update && apt-get install mplayer deb-multimedia-keyring</tt>

apt-get will warn you about unsigned packages the first time you run this; allow them. Installing the keyring package will eliminate those warnings for future upgrades.

For RealVideo support, then install the packages <tt>w32codecs</tt> (32-bit OS) or <tt>w64codecs</tt> (64-bit OS).

====Ubuntu====
The MPlayer version in the default Ubuntu repositories is usually outdated. The [http://medibuntu.org/ Medibuntu] repository has the latest version of MPlayer as well as the extra codecs.

To add the Mediabuntu repository, paste the following into a terminal (from the [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu Mediabuntu wiki])

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

After that install MPlayer and the codec pack:

(32-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w32codecs

(64-bit installations)

sudo apt-get install mplayer w64codecs

Since mplayer is a command-line application, it might be useful to install a GUI front-end like gnome-mplayer like so:

sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer

====OpenSuse====
zypper in mplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
MPlayer is not in the official Fedora repositories. You will have to add and enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories before being able to install MPlayer.
yum install mplayer

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S mplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva mplayer

===MPlayer codecs===
Not all distributions include the full set of MPlayer codecs in their repositories, although these are often not needed except for Real or Quicktime videos. To install the full set follow these easy steps.

# Download: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Extract with: tar xvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
# Copy the codecs (but not the directory) to the MPlayer codec directory. Default is /usr/lib/win32

===GPU Acceleration===
====NVIDIA VDPAU====
If you use an NVIDIA GPU be sure to install their latest binary drivers as they offer a feature that enables offloading video decoding from the CPU to GPU which may provide smoother video playback, especially for h264 encoded videos, while keeping CPU usage at low levels. Check your MPlayer configuration to use the VDPAU video output (-vo vdpau). Type "mplayer -vo help" to list available outputs.

Note that this generally offers no advantage (yet) for Hi10p encodes, which are not hardware supported. With modern desktop CPUs — roughly 2011 or newer — GPU decoding may actually be ''slower'' for some files. If you encounter stuttering with one setting, try it the other way: "-vo xv" for CPU decoding, "-vo vdpau" for GPU decoding.

* Debian, Ubuntu users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-dkms</tt>

====ATI====
The open-source video driver does not currently support hardware acceleration beyond basic XvMC (for MPEG-2). Recent in-development versions however have exposed AMD's UVD functionality via VDPAU, and the relevant changes should reach mesa and the kernel within a release-line or so. Various sources exist for instructions on how to advance-test this functionality, e.g. [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1NDk Phoronix] for Ubuntu users.

The proprietary video driver provides hardware accelerated video decoding (and indeed, only works at all) for R600+ based GPUs.
* Debian users: Install the drivers with <tt>apt-get install fglrx-glx fglrx-modules-dkms</tt>
* Ubuntu users: <tt>apt-get install fglrx</tt>
* Other distributions usually package the driver as either <tt>fglrx</tt> or <tt>catalyst</tt>
'''Note: The above packages are only valid for HD5000 chipsets and over, HD2000-4000 users should check their distribution's documentation for how to install the legacy variant.'''

Exposing the video decoding capabilities over VA-API (e.g. for use with VLC, mplayer or xine) requires the additional package <tt>xvba-video</tt>. XBMC (only) can natively use AMD's XvBA (the Linux DXVA equivalent) built-into the proprietary driver.

===MPlayer tweaks===
This is a sample configuration file tailored for specific preferences. The MPlayer configuration file can be found at: <tt>~/.mplayer/config</tt>. All of the options are documented in [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html the manual].

# If you have a multicore CPU, use as many threads as you have cores.
lavdopts=threads=4
# Use the GPU accelerated video output driver if available. If not, fall back
# to xv (which offers good speed on most cards) followed by x11 (which is slower
# and doesn't do software zooming unless passed "-zoom" or "zoom=1").
# For audio output, always use ALSA.
# Sometimes "vo=xv,vdpau," gives better results! Test on your own system.
vo=vdpau,xv,
ao=alsa
# 4 audio channels for surround sound files
channels=4
# Default audio and subtitle tracks. (Not all files use the correct tags,
# so sometimes it will be necessary to switch streams manually with '#' and 'j'
# or from the command line with "-aid x" and "-sid x")
alang=jp,jpn,
slang=en,eng,
# Find ASS subs and use the fonts provided in the file if possible
ass=1
embeddedfonts=1
fontconfig=1
# The highest level of subtitle anti-aliasing
spuaa=4
# Less stdout text
quiet=1

====MPlayer Tricks====
MPlayer has a large collection of video filters included. You may use them to achieve different results.

* Play interlaced video without combing:
mplayer -vf pullup myvideo.ext
* Increase saturation and contrast:
mplayer -vf eq2=0.8 myvideo.ext
* Remove "mosquito" noise:
mplayer -vf hqdn3d myvideo.ext
* Make crappy video look good:
mplayer -vf pp7 myvideo.ext
* Combine:
mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts -vf pullup,eq2=0.8,unsharp=l3x3:0.2,hqdn3d myvideo.ext

==SMPlayer==
SMPlayer provides a QT based front-end to MPlayer. It contains useful features such as saving the video position allowing you to continue watching the video from that point at a later date.

===Installing SMPlayer===
====Debian Based Distributions (Including Ubuntu)====
sudo apt-get install smplayer
You can also:
* Download the .deb file from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer website] or
* Add the SMPlayer repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
8.04 (hardy):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu hardy main
8.10 (intrepid):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu intrepid main

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S smplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva smplayer

====Red Hat Based Distributions (Including Fedora)====
You will need to enable the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion] third-party repositories to be able to install SMplayer.
yum install smplayer

====Building from Source (Compiling)====
Grab the tarball from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer download page]. Decompress it, cd into the directory, and run
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you don't have sudo installed/configured, then the last step will be instead
su
make install

===SMPlayer tweaks===
After installation you may want to configure SMPlayer. Start SMPlayer, open the options (Ctrl + P), go to the subtitles section, within the section go to the SSA/ASS library tab and check the check box for using SSA/ASS library.

If you see a black screen at playing, the colors don't seem to be right, or playback is too slow, you may need to change the video rendering mode. To do this go to the Options > general section > general tab > output drivers > Video, and set it to <tt>x11</tt> - this will use software rendering. Alternatively you can use <tt>xv</tt> for XVideo rendering or either <tt>gl</tt> or <tt>gl2</tt> for OpenGL rendering. In general you should try these options in the following order for best quality and performance: <tt>xv</tt>, <tt>gl2</tt>, <tt>gl</tt> and finally <tt>x11</tt>.

==MPlayer2==
A fork of the original MPlayer project. Although it was the first *nix player to add 10bit support, MPlayer added it later as well; for playback purposes, there is not currently a strong reason to use one over the other besides personal preference.

===Installation===
The following installation works for Debian 7 Wheezy stable, and should work for any newer Debian (testing/unstable/future stable releases). It might work for Ubuntu, but I have not tested this. It will not work for a distribution that does not use DEBs.

<tt>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mplayer2</tt>