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.\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy <sendmail@to.mplayer-users>
.\" This manpage was/is done by Gabucino <sendmail@to.mplayer-users>
.\" (Patches done by Jonas Jermann <sendmail@to.mplayer-users>)
.\" 
.TH "MPlayer" "1" "2002-05-05"

.SH "NAME"
mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux
.br
mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux

.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B mplayer
.RB [options]\ [\fIfile\fP\ |\ \fIURL\fP\ |\ \fIplaylist\fP\ |\ \-\ ]
.br
.B mplayer
.RB [global\ options]\ \fIfile1\fP\ [specific\ options]\ [file2]\ [specific\ options]
.br
.B mplayer
.RB [global\ options]\ {\fIgroup\ of\ files\ and\ options\fP}\ [group\ specific\ options]
.br
.B mplayer
.RB [dvd|vcd|tv]://[title]\ [options]
.br
.B mplayer
.RB [mms|http|http_proxy|rtp]://URL[:port]\ [options]
.br
.B mencoder
.RB [options]\ [\fIfile\fP\ |\ \fIURL\fP\ |\ \-\ ]\ [\-o\ file]
.br
.B gmplayer
.RB [options]\ [\-skin\ skin]

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B mplayer
is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non\-x86
CPUs, see DOCS section 6). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI,
RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many native, XAnim, and
Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies too
(and you don't need the avifile library at all!).

Another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers.
It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use
GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers
(for Matrox G-series, 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 and ATI cards) too!
.br
Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB and
DXR3/Hollywood+!

Nice big antialiased shaded subtitles with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, 
etc), cyrillic, korean fonts are supported (10 supported subtitle formats: MicroDVD, SubRip, 
SubViewer, SAMI (smi), vplayer, RealMedia RT, ssa (Sub Station Alpha), AQT, VobSub, and our 
own: MPsub).

.B mencoder
(MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to
encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET)
to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below).  It encodes to DivX4 
(1, 2 or 3 passes), xvid, codecs of libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. 
Also has stream copying abilities, a powerfull plugin system
(crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) and more.

.B gmplayer
is MPlayer with a graphical user interface.
It has the same options as MPlayer.

.SH GENERAL NOTES
Every "flag" option has "noflag" pair, e.g. \-fs opposite is \-nofs.
.br
.B Check the html documentation too!

.SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS"
.TP
.B \-aid <id>
Select audio channel [MPG: 0\-31 AVI: 1\-99 ASF: 0\-127 VOB: 128\-...]
.br
.I NOTE:
Use \-alang to define the language by name.
.TP
.B \-alang <audio\ stream\ language>
Usable when playing DVD disks. Expects a two\-letter country code(s) as
parameter, and always tries to play back audio streams those language
matches the given code. For example: \-alang hu,en will always try to play
hungarian or if it's non\-existant then english audio streams if there are any.
.TP
.B \-audio\-demuxer <number>
Force audio demuxer type for \-audiofile. 
Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h.
You can use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection!
.TP
.B \-audiofile <filename>
Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or OggVorbis)
.TP
.B \-cdrom\-device <path\ to\ device>
Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom
.TP
.B \-cache <kbytes>
This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/URL.
Especially useful on slow media (default is \-nocache).
.TP
.B \-chapter <chapter\ id>[-<end chapter id>]
Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to
end playing at. Examples can be found below.
.TP
.B \-csslib <filename>
(old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so
.TP
.B \-demuxer <number>
Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h.
.TP
.B \-dumpaudio (MPLAYER only)
Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (usefull with mpeg/ac3)
.TP
.B \-dumpfile <filename> (MPLAYER only)
Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together
with \-dumpaudio/\-dumpvideo/\-dumpstream.
.TP
.B \-dumpstream (MPLAYER only)
Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump . Useful for example
when ripping from DVD or network.
.TP
.B \-dumpsub (MPLAYER only)
Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams.
.TP
.B \-dumpvideo (MPLAYER only)
Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable)
.TP
.B \-dvd <title\ id>
Tell MPlayer which movies (marked with titleid) to play. For example
sometimes '1' are trailers, and '2' is the real movie. Sometimes deinterlacing
is required for DVD playback: see '\-pp 0x20000' or '\-npp lb' options too. 
.TP
.B \-dvd\-device <path\ to\ device>
Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd
.TP
.B \-dvdangle <angle\ id>
Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles.
Here you can tell MPlayer which angles to use. Examples can be found below.
.TP
.B \-dvdauth <DVD\ device>
(old-style DVD option) Turns on DVD authentication using the given device.
.TP
.B \-dvdkey <CSS\ key>
(old-style DVD option) When decoding from non-DVD, this option gives the CSS key needed 
to crack the DVD (the key is printed when authenticating with DVD).
.TP
.B \-dvdnav (BETA CODE) 
Force usage of libdvdnav.
.TP
.B \-forceidx
Force rebuilding of INDEX. Useful for files with broken index (desyncs, etc).
Seeking will be possible. You can fix the index permanently with
MEncoder (see the documentation).
.TP
.B \-fps <value>
Override video frame rate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number)
.TP
.B \-frames <number>
Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
.TP
.B \-hr\-mp3\-seek (.MP3 only)
Hi\-res mp3 seeking. Default is: enabled when playing 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.
.TP
.B \-idx (see \-forceidx option too!)
Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, 
thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incomplete
downloads, or badly created AVIs.
.TP
.B \-mc <seconds/frame>
Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds)
.TP
.B \-mf <option1:option2:...>
Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files.
(see documentation). They are:

    on            turns on multifile support
    w=<value>     width of the output (autodetect)
    h=<value>     height of the output (autodetect)
    fps=<value>   fps of the output (default: 25)
    type=<value>  type of input files (available types : jpeg, png)
.TP
.B \-ni (.AVI only)
Force usage of non\-interleaved AVI parser (fixes playing
of some bad AVI files).
.TP
.B \-nobps (.AVI only)
Don't use avg. byte/sec value for A\-V sync (AVI).
Helps with some AVI files with broken header.
.TP
.B \-skipopening
Skip dvd opening (dvdnav only).
.TP
.B \-sb <byte\ position> (see \-ss option too!)
Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from cdrom 
images / vob files with junk at the beginning.
.TP
.B \-srate <Hz>
Specifies Hz to playback audio on. Has effect on playback speed!
.TP
.B \-ss <time> (see \-sb option too!)
Seek to given time position. For example:

    \-ss 56         seeks to 56 seconds
    \-ss 01:10:00   seeks to 1 hour 10 min
.TP
.B \-tv <option1:option2:...>
This option enables the TV grabbing feature of MPlayer (see documentation). 
Available options are:

    on                use TV input
    noaudio           no sound
    driver=<value>    available: dummy, v4l
    device=<value>    specify other device than the default /dev/video0
    input=<value>     available: television, s-video, composite, etc
    freq=<value>      specify the frequency to set the tuner (e.g. 511.250)
    outfmt=<value>    output format of the tuner (rgb32, rgb24, yv12, uyvy, i420)
    width=<value>     the width of the output window
    height=<value>    the height of the output window
    norm=<value>      available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC
    channel=<value>   set the tuner to the given channel
    chanlist=<value>  available: us-bcast, us-cable, europe-west, europe-east, etc
.TP
.B \-vcd <track>
Play video cd track from device instead of plain file
.TP
.B \-vid <id>
Select video channel [MPG: 0\-15  ASF:  0\-255 ]
.TP
.B \-vivo <sub\-options> (DEBUG CODE)
Force audio parameters for the .vivo demuxer (for debugging purposes)


.SH "DECODING/FILTERING OPTIONS"
.TP
.B \-ac <codec name>
Force usage of a specific audio codec, according to its name in codecs.conf,
for example:

    \-ac mp3        use libmp3 MP3 codec
    \-ac mp3acm     use l3codeca.acm MP3 codec
    \-ac ac3        use AC3 codec
    \-ac hwac3      enable Hardware AC3 passthrough (see documentation)
    \-ac vorbis     use libvorbis
    \-ac ffmp3      use ffmpeg's MP3 decoder (SLOW)

See '\-ac help' for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-afm <1\-12> (OBSOLETE)
Force usage of a specific audio format. For example:

    \-afm 1         use libmp3 (mp2/mp3, but not mp1)
    \-afm 2         suppose raw PCM audio
    \-afm 3         use libac3
    \-afm 4         use a matching Win32 codec
    \-afm 5         use aLaw/uLaw driver
    \-afm 10        use libvorbis
    \-afm 11        use ffmpeg's MP3 decoder (even mp1)

See \-ac help for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-aspect <ratio>
Override aspect ratio of movies. It's autodetected on MPEG files, but can't be
autodetected on most AVI files. Examples:

    \-aspect 4:3  or \-aspect 1.3333
    \-aspect 16:9 or \-aspect 1.7777
.TP
.B \-flip
Flip image upside-down
.TP
.B \-nosound
Don't play/encode sound
.TP
.B \-npp <option1,option2,...>
This option allows to give more litterate options for postprocessing, 
and is another way of calling it (not with \-pp).
.br
NOTE: -npp only controls the external postprocess filter, and you HAVE TO
load it manually by '-vop pp', it is not auto-loaded!
.br
So, the usage: -vop pp -npp <options>

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-pp 0x2007f' <=> '\-npp hb,vb,dr,al,lb'
    '\-pp 0x7f'    <=> '\-npp hb,vb,dr,al'

You can get a list of options for \-npp by executing
.I mplayer \-npp help
.br
These keywords accept a '\-' prefix to disable the option.

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-npp de,\-al' means 'default filters without brightness/contrast correction'

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 (that is only luminance filtering)

Each filter defaults to 'c' (chrominance).

.I EXAMPLE:
    '\-npp de,tn:1:2:3' means 'enable default filters & temporal denoiser'
    '\-npp hb:y,vb:a \-autoq 6' means 'deblock horizontal only luminance, and
    automatically switch vertical deblocking on/off depending on available 
    cpu time'
.TP
.B \-pp <quality> (see \-npp option too!)
Apply postprocess filter on decoded image

Value given by -pp is sent to the codec, if the codec has built-in postprocess
filter (newer win32 DShow DLLs, divx4linux) otherwise the external postprocess
filter plugin (-vop pp) is auto-loaded and used.
Note, that you can use the built-in and external pp at the
same time, use -pp to set internal pp, and -vop pp=value to set up the external!

The valid range of -pp value for built-in pp filters vary on codecs, mostly
0-6, where 0=disable 6=slowest/best.

For the external pp filter, this is the numerical mode to use postprocessing. The '\-npp' option described
above has the same effects but with letters. To have several filters at the
same time, simply add the hexadecimal values.

.I EXAMPLE:
The following values are known to give good results:
    \-pp 0x20000 <=> \-npp lb (deinterlacing \- for DVD/MPEG2 playback e.g.)
    \-pp 0x7f    <=> \-npp hb,vb,dr,al (deblocking filter - for DivX)
.TP
.B \-ssf <mode> (BETA CODE)
Specifies SwScaler parameters. Available options are:

    lgb=[0..100]   gaussian blur filter (luma) 
    cgb=[0..100]   gaussian blur filter (chroma)
    ls=[0..100]    sharpen filter (luma)
    cs=[0..100]    sharpen filter (chroma)
    cvs=x          chroma vertival shifting
    chs=x          chroma horizontal shifting
.TP
.B \-stereo <mode>
Select type of MP2/MP3 stereo output.

    Stereo          0
    Left channel    1
    Right channel   2
.TP
.B \-sws <software\ scaler\ type>
This option sets the quality (and speed, respectively) of the software scaler,
with the \-zoom option. For example with x11 or other outputs which lack
hardware acceleration. Possible settings are:

    0   fast bilinear (default)
    1   bilinear
    2   bicubic (best quality)
    3   ?
    4   nearest neighbor (bad quality)
    5   area averageing scaling support
.TP
.B \-vc <codec name>
Force usage of a specific video codec, according to its name in codecs.conf,
for example:

    \-vc divx       use VFW DivX codec
    \-vc divxds     use DirectShow DivX codec
    \-vc ffdivx     use libavcodec's DivX codec
    \-vc ffmpeg12   use libavcodec's MPEG1/2 codec
    \-vc divx4      use ProjectMayo's DivX codec

See '\-vc help' for FULL list!
.TP
.B \-vfm <1\-12> (OBSOLETE)
Force usage of a specific codec FAMILY, and FALLBACK to default if failed.
For example:

    \-vfm 2         use VFW (Win32) codecs
    \-vfm 3         use OpenDivX/DivX4 codec (YV12)
                   (same as \-vc odivx but fallback)
    \-vfm 4         use DirectShow (Win32) codecs
    \-vfm 5         use libavcodec codecs
    \-vfm 7         use DivX4 codec (YUY2)
                   (same as \-vc divx4 but fallback)
    \-vfm 10        use XAnim codecs

See \-vc help for FULL list!

.I NOTE:
If libdivxdecore support was compiled in, then type 3 and 7 now contains
just the same DivX4 codec, but different APIs to reach it. For difference
between them and when to use which, check the DivX4 section in the
documentation.
.TP
.B \-vop <plugin3[=options], plugin2, plugin1, ...>
Activate coma separated list of video filters (see documentation!).
Available plugins are:

 crop[=w:h:x:y]     cropping
 expand[=w:h:x:y:o] expanding and OSD
 flip               flips upside-down
 mirror             horizontal mirroring
 rotate[=direction] rotate image
 scale[=w:h]        software scaling
 yuy2               YV12/I420 \-> YUY2
 rgb2bgr[=swap]     RGB 24/32 <\-> BGR 24/32
 palette            RGB/BGR 8 \-> 15/16/24/32 bpp
 format[=fourcc]    restrict colorspace
 pp[=flags]         postprocessing (see \-pp)
 lavc[=quality:fps] YV12\->MPEG1 (libavcodec)
 fame               YV12\->MPEG1 (libfame)

.I parameters:
.br
 w,h     destination width/height
         value   : w/h = value
         \-1      : w/h = original (default)
         0       : w/h = scaled (aspect) w/h
         \-value  : w/h = original+value
 x,y     x/y position of the sub-image
         value   : x/y = value
         \-1      : x/y = center image (default)
 o       en/disable OSD/SUB rendering
         0       : disabled (default)
         1       : enabled

.TP
.B \-x <x> (MPLAYER only)
Scale image to x width (if sw/hw scaling available). Disables aspect calcs.
.TP
.B \-xy <x>
    x<=8   Scale image by factor <x>
    x>8    Set width to <x> and calculate height to keep correct aspect ratio
.TP
.B \-y <y> (MPLAYER only)
Scale image to y height (if sw/hw scaling available). Disables aspect calcs.
.TP
.B \-zoom
Allow software scaling, where available. Could be used to force scaling with -vop scale
(-vop scale will IGNORE options -x/-y/-xy/-fs/-aspect without -zoom)


.SH "OSD/SUB OPTIONS"
.I NOTE:
See -vop expand too.
.TP
.B \-dumpmpsub (MPLAYER only)
Convert the given subtitle (specified with the \-sub switch) to MPlayer's
subtitle format, MPsub. Creates a dump.mpsub file in current directory.
.TP
.B \-ifo <vobsub\ ifo\ file>
Indicate the file that will be used to load palette and frame size for VOBSUB
subtitles.
.TP
.B \-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
.TP
.B \-font <path\ to\ font.desc\ file>
Search for the OSD/SUB fonts in an alternative directory (default:
~/.mplayer/font/font.desc). For example:

    \-font ~/.mplayer/arial\-14/font.desc
.TP
.B \-noautosub
Turns off automatic subtitles
.TP
.B \-osdlevel <0\-2> (MPLAYER only)
Specifies which mode the OSD should start in (0: none, 1: seek, 2: seek+timer)
(default = 2)
.TP
.B \-sid <id>
Turns on DVD subtitle displaying. Also, you MUST specify a number which
corresponds to a DVD subtitle language (0\-31). For the list of available
subtitles, use with the \-v switch and look at the output.
.br
.I NOTE:
Use \-slang to define the subtitle language by name.
.TP
.B \-slang <subtitle\ language>
See the \-sid option, but this one needs a two\-letter parameter, a country code.
Like: \-slang hu,en will always select hungarian or if it's non existant then
english subtitles, if there are any. For the list of available subtitles, use
with the \-v switch and look at the output.
.TP
.B \-sub <subtitle\ file>
Use/display this subtitle file
.TP
.B \-subcp\ codepage
If your system supports iconv(3), you can use this option to
specify codepage of the subtitle. Examples:

    \-subcp   latin2
    \-subcp   cp1250
.TP
.B \-sub\-demuxer <number> (BETA CODE)
Force subtitle demuxer type for \-subfile.
.TP
.B \-subdelay <sec>
Delays subtitles by <sec> seconds. Can be negative.
.TP
.B \-subfps <rate>
Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)
(ONLY for frame\-based SUB files, i.e. NOT MicroDVD format!)
(default: the same fps as the movie)
.TP
.B \-subfile <filename> (BETA CODE)
Currently useless. Same as \-audiofile, but for subtitle streams. (OggDS?)
.TP
.B \-subpos <0 \- 100> (usefull with -vop expand)
Specify the position of subtitles on screen
.TP
.B \-unicode
Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UNICODE.
.TP
.B \-utf8
Tells MPlayer to handle the subtitle file as UTF8.
.TP
.B \-vobsub <vobsub\ file\ without\ extention>
Specify the VobSub files that are to be used for subtitle. This is
the full pathname without extensions, i.e. without the ".idx", ".ifo"
or ".sub".
.TP
.B \-vobsubid <vobsub\ subtitle\ id>
Specify the VobSub subtitle id. Valid values range from 0 to 31.


.SH "AUDIO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-abs <value>  (OBSOLETE)
Override audio driver/card buffer size detection, -ao oss only
.TP
.B \-ao <driver>[:<device>]
Select audio output driver and optionaly device. "device" is valid with
SDL too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:esd).
If using OSS, you can specify which sound device to use like this:

    \-ao oss:/dev/dsp1     (replaces the old \-dsp option)

You can get the list of available drivers executing
.I mplayer \-ao help
.TP
.B \-aofile <filename>
Filename for \-ao pcm.
.TP
.B \-aop <plugin1:plugin2:...>
Specify audio plugin(s) and their options (see documentation!!).
Available sub\-options are:

    list=[plugins]  comma separated list of plugins
                    (resample, format, surround, format, volume, extrastereo, volnorm)
    delay=<sec>     example plugin, don't 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, defaults to 1 (extrastereo plugin only)
    softclip        compressor/"soft\-clipping" capabilities (volume plugin only)
.TP
.B \-channels <n>
Select number of audio output channels to be used

    Stereo         2
    Surround       4
    Full 5.1       6

Currently this option is only honoured for AC3 audio, and/or the surround plugin.
.TP
.B \-delay <secs>
Audio delay in seconds (may be +/\- float value)
.TP
.B \-mixer <device>
This option will tell MPlayer to use a different device for mixing than
/dev/mixer.
.TP
.B \-nowaveheader  (-ao pcm only)
Don't include wave header. Used for RAW PCM.


.SH "VIDEO OUTPUT OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-aa*
Used for \-vo aa. You can get a list and an explanation of available options executing
.I mplayer \-aahelp
.TP
.B \-blue_intensity <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust intensity of blue component of video signal (default 0).
.TP
.B \-bpp <depth>
Use different color depth than autodetect. Not all \-vo drivers support
it (fbdev, dga2, svga, vesa).
.TP
.B \-brightness <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust brightness of video output (default 0). It changes intensity of 
RGB components of video signal from black to white screen.
.TP
.B \-contrast <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust contrast of video output (default 0). Works in similar manner as brightness.
.TP
.B \-display <name>
Specify the hostname and display number of the X server you want
to display on. For example: \-display xtest.localdomain:0
.TP
.B \-double
Enables doublebuffering. Fixes flicker by storing two frames in memory, and
displaying one while decoding another. Can effect OSD. Needs twice the memory
than a single buffer, so it won't work on cards with very few video memory.
.TP
.B \-dr
Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs)
(default is off).
.TP
.B \-fb <device> (FBdev or DirectFB only)
Specifies the framebuffer device to use. By default it uses /dev/fb0.
.TP
.B \-fbmode <modename> (FBdev only)
Change videomode to the one that is labelled as <modename> in /etc/fb.modes.
.br
.I NOTE:
VESA framebuffer doesn't support mode changing.
.TP
.B \-fbmodeconfig <filename> (FBdev only)
Use this config file instead of the default /etc/fb.modes.
Only valid for the fbdev driver.
.TP
.B \-forcexv (SDL only)
Force using XVideo
.TP
.B \-fs
Fullscreen playing (centers movie, and makes black
bands around it). Toggle it with the 'f' key (not all video
outputs support it).
.TP
.B \-fsmode <mode>
This option workarounds some problems when using specific windowmanagers and
fullscreen mode. If you experience fullscreen problems, try changing this
value between 0 and 7.

    \-fsmode 0      new method
    \-fsmode 1      ICCCWM patch
                   (for KDE2/icewm)
    \-fsmode 2      old method
    \-fsmode 3      ICCCWM patch
                   plus Motif method
.TP
.B \-green_intensity <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust intensity of green component of video signal (default 0).
.TP
.B \-hue <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust hue of video signal (default 0). You can get colored negative
of image with this option.
.TP
.B \-jpeg <sub\-options> 
Specify options for the JPEG output (-vo jpeg), separated by ":" (see documentation!).
Available sub\-options are [no]progressiv, [no]baseline, 
optimize, smooth, quality and outdir.
.TP
.B \-monitor_dotclock <dotclock\ (or\ pixelclock) range>  (FBdev only)
Look into etc/example.conf for further information and in DOCS/video.html.
.TP
.B \-monitor_hfreq <horizontal frequency range>  (FBdev only)
.TP
.B \-monitor_vfreq <vertical frequency range>  (FBdev only)
.TP
.B \-monitoraspect <ratio>
Set aspect ratio of your screen. Examples:

    \-monitoraspect 4:3  or 1.3333
    \-monitoraspect 16:9 or 1.7777
.TP
.B \-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 libavcodec codecs.
.TP
.B \-red_intensity <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust intensity of red component of video signal (default 0).
.TP
.B \-saturation <\-1000\ \-\ 1000>
Adjust saturation of video output (default 0). You can get grayscale output 
with this option.
.TP
.B \-rootwin
Play movie in the root window (desktop background) instead of opening
a new one. Works only with x11, xv, xmga, xvidix drivers.
.TP
.B \-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.
.TP
.B \-vm
Try to change to a better video mode. dga, x11/xv (XF86VidMode) and sdl
output drivers support it.
.TP
.B \-vo <driver>[:<device>]
Select video output driver and optinally device. "device" is valid with
SDL and GGI too, it means sub\-driver then (for example: \-vo sdl:aalib).

You can get the list of available drivers executing
.I mplayer \-vo help
.TP
.B \-vsync
Enables VBI for vesa
.TP
.B \-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)
.TP
.B \-xineramascreen <screen\ number>
In Xinerama configurations (i.e. a single desktop that spans across multiple
displays) this option tells MPlayer which screen to display movie on. Range 0 \- ...
.TP
.B \-z <0\-9>
Specifies compression level for PNG output (-vo png)
    0   no compression
    9   max compression
.TP
.B \-zr*
Used for \-vo zr. You can get a list and an explanation of available options executing
.I mplayer \-zrhelp


.SH "PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-autoq <quality> (use with -vop pp!)
Dynamically changes the level of postprocess, depending on spare CPU time
available. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you
can use some big number. You may not use together with \-pp but it's ok with
\-npp!
.TP
.B \-benchmark
Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end.
Used in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only video codec.
.TP
.B \-dapsync (OBSOLETE)
Use alternative A/V sync method.
.TP
.B \-framedrop (see \-hardframedrop option too!)
Frame dropping: decode all (except B) frames, video may skip. Usefull for playback on slow VGA card/bus.
.TP
.B \-gui (BETA CODE)
Start MPlayer in GUI mode.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show short summary of options
.TP
.B \-hardframedrop
More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image disortion!
.TP
.B \-input <commands>
This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system.
Relative path are relative to $HOME/.mplayer.

    conf=<file>    read alternative input.conf.
                   If given without pathname,
                   $HOME/.mplayer is assumed.
    ar\-delay       delay in msec before we start
                   to autorepeat a key
                   (0 to disable)
    ar\-rate        how many keypress/second when
                   we autorepeat
    keylist        prints all keys that can be
                   bound to
    cmdlist        prints all commands that can
                   be bound
    js\-dev         specifies the joystick device
                   to use
                   (default is /dev/input/js0)

.I NOTE:
Autorepeat is currently only supported by joysticks
.TP
.B \-lircconf <config\ file>
Specifies a configfile for LIRC (see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/.lircrc
.TP
.B \-loop <num>
Loops movie playback <num> times. 0 means forever
.TP
.B \-nojoystick
Turns off joystick support. Default is on, if compiled in
.TP
.B \-nolirc
Turns off lirc support
.TP
.B \-nortc
Turns off usage of /dev/rtc (real-time clock)
.TP
.B \-playlist <file>
Play files according to this filelist (1 file/row or Winamp or ASX format).
.TP
.B \-quiet
Display less output, status messages.
.TP
.B \-skin <skin\ directory> (BETA CODE)
Load skin from this directory (WITHOUT path name!). For example '\-skin fittyfene' tries these:

    /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/fittyfene
    ~/.mplayer/Skin/fittyfene
.TP
.B \-slave
This option switches on slave mode. This is intended for use
of MPlayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard
events, MPlayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin.
See section
.B SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL
For the syntax.
.TP
.B \-softsleep
Uses high quality software timers. Efficient as the RTC, doesn't need root,
but requires more CPU.
.TP
.B \-sstep <sec>
Specifies seconds between displayed frames. Usefull for slideshows.
.TP
.B \-use-stdin


.SH "ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)"
.TP
.B \-divx4opts <options>
If encoding to DivX4, you can specify its parameters here, like:

  -divx4opts br=1800:deinterlace:key=250

Available options:

  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
                     (don't use, 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
.TP
.B \-endpos <time|byte\ position>
Stop encoding at given time or byte position. Can be specified in many ways :

    -endpos 56       encode only 56 seconds
    -endpos 01:10:00 encode only 1 hours
    -endpos 100mb    encode only 100 mbytes

Can be used in conjuction with -ss or -sb!
.br
.I NOTE:
Byte position won't be accurate, as it can only stop at
a frame boundary.
.TP
.B \-ffourcc <fourcc>
Can be used to override the video fourcc of the output file. For example -ffourcc
div3 will have the output file contain "div3" as video fourcc.
.TP
.B \-include <config\ file>
Specify config file to be parsed after the default
.TP
.B \-lameopts <options>
If encoding to MP3 with libmp3lame, you can specify its parameters here, like:

  -lameopts br=192:cbr

Available options:

    help            get help
    vbr=<value>     variable bitrate method
                      0=cbr
                      1=mt
                      2=rh(default)
                      3=abr
                      4=mtrh
    abr             average bitrate
    cbr             constant bitrate
    br=<value>      specify bitrate in
                    kbit <0-1024>
                    (only for CBR and ABR)
    q=<value>       Quality
                    (0-highest, 9-low)
                    (for VBR)
    aq=<value>      ?
    ratio=<value>   compression ratio <1-100>
    vol=<value>     set audio input gain <0-10>
    mode=<value>    0=stereo
                    1=joint-stereo
                    2=dualchannel
                    3=mono
                    (default: auto)
    padding=<value> 0=no
                    1=all
                    2=adjust
.TP
.B \-lavcopts <options>
If encoding with a codec from libavcodec, you can specify its parameters here,
like:

  -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=1800:vhq:keyint=250

Available options:

  help             get help

  vcodec=<value>   use the specified codec :
                     mjpeg - Motion JPEG
                     h263 - H263
                     h263p - H263 Plus
                     mpeg4 - DivX 4/5
                     msmpeg4 - DivX 3
                     rv10 - an old RealVideo codec
                     mpeg1video - MPEG1 video :)
                   There's no default, you must
                   specify it.

  vbitrate=<value> specify bitrate in
                   kbit <4-16000> or
                   bit  <16001-24000000>
                   (warning: 1kbit = 1000 bits)
                   default = 800k

  vratetol=<value> approximated *filesize* tolerance
                   in kbits.
                   (warning: 1kbit = 1000 bits)
                   default = 1024*8 kbits = 1MByte

  keyint=<value>    interval between keyframes
                   (specify in frames, >300 are not
                   recommended)
                   default = 250 (one key frame every
                   ten seconds in a 25fps movie)

  vhq              high quality mode, macro blocks
                   will be encoded multiple times and
                   the smallest will be used.
                   default = HQ disabled

  vme=<0\-5>      motion estimation method :
                     0 - no ME at all
                     1 - ME_FULL
                     2 - ME_LOG
                     3 - ME_PHODS
                     4 - ME_EPZS
                     5 - ME_X1
                   EPZS usually gives best results,
                   but you can try X1 too. FULL is
                   very slow and the others are
                   experimental.
                   default = EPZS

  vqcomp=<value>   if the value is set to 1.0, the
                   quantizer will stay nearly
                   constant (high motion scenes will
                   look bad). If it's 0.0, the
                   quantizer will be changed
                   to make all frames approximately
                   equally sized (low motion scenes
                   will look bad).
                   default = 0.5

  vqblur=<0\-1>    blurs the quantizer graph over
                   time.
                      0.0 : no blur
                      1.0 : average all past
                            quantizers
                   default = 0.5

  vqscale=<2\-31>  gives each frame the same
                   quantizer (selects fixed
                   quantizer mode).
                   default = 0 (fixed quantizer
                   mode disabled)

  vrc_strategy=<0\-2>
                   different strategies to
                   decide which frames should get
                   which quantizer.
                   default = 2

  v4mv             4 motion vectors per macroblock,
                   may gives you slightly better
                   quality, can only be used in HQ
                   mode and is buggy with B frames
                   currently.
                   default = disabled

  vpass=<1/2>      select internal first pass
                   or second pass of 2-pass mode.
                   default = 0 (1-pass mode)

The next 3 options apply only to I & P frames :

  vqmin=<1\-31>    minimum quantizer,
                   default = 3

  vqmax=<1\-31>    maximum quantizer
                   default = 15

  vqdiff=<1\-31>   quantizer difference.
                   Limits the maximum quantizer
                   difference between frames.
                   default = 3

The following options apply only to B frames :

  vmax_b_frames=<0\-4>
                   maximum number of frames
                   between each I/P frame.
                   default = 0 (B-frames generation
                   disabled)

  vb_strategy=<value>
                   strategy to choose between
                   I/P/B frames :
                     0 allways use max B
                     1 avoid B frames in high
                       motion / scene change (can
                       lead to filesize miss
                       prediction)
                   default = 0

  vb_qfactor=<value>
                   quantizer factor between b
                   and i/p frames (larger means
                   higher quantizer for b frames)
                   default = 2.0

  vb_qfactor=<value>
                   quantizer factor between b
                   and i/p frames (larger means
                   higher quantizer for b frames)
                   default = 2.0

In fixed quantizer mode you can use those options :
  vqscale, vmax_b_frames, vhq, vme, keyint

You can use the following options only in pass 1 of 2-pass mode or in 1-pass mode :
  vqblur, vqdiff

You can use the following options only in pass 2 of 2-pass mode :
  vrc_strategy, vb_strategy

All other options can be used in all modes.
.TP
.B \-noskip
Don't skip frames
.TP
.B \-o <filename>
Outputs to the given filename, instead of the default 'test.avi'.
.TP
.B \-oac <codec name>
Encode with the given codec (codec names are from codecs.conf,
use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs).
Examples:

  -oac copy      no encoding, just streamcopy
  -oac pcm       encode to uncompressed PCM
  -oac mp3lame   encode to MP3 (using Lame)
.TP
.B \-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.
.TP
.B \-ovc <codec name>
Encode with the given codec (codec names are from codecs.conf, 
use -ovc help to get a list of available codecs).
Examples:

  -ovc copy      no encoding, just streamcopy
  -ovc divx4     encode to DivX4/DivX5 or XviD
  -ovc rawrgb    encode to uncompressed RGB24
  -ovc lavc      encode with a libavcodec codec
.TP
.B \-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.
NOTE: for libavcodec 2-pass use -lavcopts vpass=1/2 instead of -pass 1/2
.TP
.B \-passlogfile <filename>
When encoding in 2pass mode, MEncoder dumps first pass' informations
to the given file instead of the default divx2pass.log.
.TP
.B \-skiplimit <value>
Maximal skipable frames after non-skipped one 
(-noskiplimit for unlimited number)
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Enable verbose output (more \-v means more verbosity)


.SH "KEYBOARD CONTROL"
.I 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).
.B See documentation!
.br
.I NOTE:
The default config file for the input system is 
$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf but it can be overrided 
using the -input conf option.
.br
.I NOTE:
These keys may/may not work, depending on your video output driver.
.TP
.B general control
<\-  and  \->     seek backward/forward  10 seconds
.br
up and down     seek backward/forward   1 minute
.br
pgup and pgdown seek backward/forward  10 minutes
.br
< and >		 backward/forward in playlist
.br
HOME and END    go to next/previous playtree entry in 
                the parent list
.br
INS and DEL     go to next/previous alternative source (asx playlist only)
.br
p / SPACE       pause movie (press any key)
.br
q / ESC         stop playing and quit program
.br
+ and \-         adjust audio delay by +/\- 0.1 second
.br
/ and *         decrease/increase volume
.br
f               toggle fullscreen
.br
o               toggle OSD: none / seek / seek+timer
.br
d               toggle frame dropping
.br
z and x         adjust subtitle delay by +/\- 0.1 second
.br
r and t         adjust subtitle position

(The following keys are valid only when using \-vo xv or \-vo [vesa|fbdev]:vidix
or \-vo xvidix or \-vc divxds (slow).)

1 and 2         adjust contrast
.br
3 and 4         adjust brightness
.br
5 and 6         adjust hue
.br
7 and 8         adjust saturation
.TP
.B GUI keyboard control
, and .         previous / next file
.br
gray \- and +    decrease/increase volume
.br
ENTER           start playing
.br
s               stop playing
.br
a               about
.br
l               load file
.br
b               skin browser
.br
e               toggle equalizer
.br
p               toggle playlist
.TP
.B TV input control
h and l         select previous/next channel
.br
n               change norm
.br
b               change channel list
.TP
.B DVDNAV input control
K,J,H,L         browse up/down/left/right
.br
M               jump to main menu
.br
S               select


.SH "SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL"
If the \-slave switch is given, playback is controlled by a 
line\-based protocol. If the new input is enabled (default)
each line must contain one command otherwise one of the 
following tokens:
.TP
.B Commands
.br
.br
seek <value> [type=<0/1>]
                Seek to some place in the movie.
                Type 0 is a relative seek of +/-
                <value> seconds. Type 1 seek to
                <value> % in the movie.

audio_delay <value>
                Adjust the audio delay of val seconds

quit            Quit MPlayer

pause           Pause/unpause the playback

grap_frames     Somebody know ?

pt_step <value> [force=<value>]
                Go to next/prev entry in playtree. 

pt_up_step <value> [force=<value>]
                Like pt_step but it jump to next/prev 
                in the parent list.

alt_src_step <value>
                When more than one source is available
                it select the next/previous one (only 
                supported 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 <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
brightness <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
hue <value> [abs=<value>]
.br
saturation <value> [abs=<value>]
                Set/Adjust video paramters.
                <value> range from -100 to 100.

frame_drop [type=<value>]
                Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.

sub_pos <value> Adjust subtitles position.

vo_fullscreen   Switch fullscreen mode.

tv_step_channel <dir>
                Select next/previous tv channel.

tv_step_norm    Change TV norm.

tv_step_chanlist 
                Change channel list.

gui_loadfile   
.br
gui_loadsubtitle
.br
gui_about
.br
gui_play
.br
gui_stop
                GUI actions


.SH "FILES"
.BR /etc/mplayer.conf\ \ \ \ \ 
System\-wide settings
.br
.BR ~/.mplayer/config\ \ \ \ \ 
User settings
.br
.BR ~/.mplayer/input.conf\ 
Input bindings. See '\-input keylist' for full keylist!
.br
.BR ~/.mplayer/font/\ \ \ \ \ \ 
Font directory. There must be a font.desc file and files with .RAW extension.
.br

.I Subtitles
(utf/UTF/sub/SUB/srt/SRT/smi/SMI/rt/RT/txt/TXT/ssa/SSA)
.br
Sub files are searched in this priority (for example /mnt/movie/movie.avi):
.br
    /mnt/cdrom/movie.sub
.br
    ~/.mplayer/sub/movie.sub 
.br
    ~/.mplayer/default.sub


.SH "EXAMPLES"
.TP
.B Quickstart DVD playing
mplayer \-dvd 1
.TP
.B Play only chapters 5, 6, 7
mplayer \-dvd 1 \-chapter 5\-7
.TP
.B Multiangle DVD playing
mplayer \-dvd 1 \-dvdangle 2
.TP
.B Playing from a different DVD device
mplayer \-dvd 1 \-dvd\-device /dev/dvd2
.TP
.B Old style DVD (VOB) playing
mplayer \-dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_4.VOB
.TP
.B Stream from HTTP
mplayer http://mplayer.hq/example.avi
.TP
.B Convert subtitle to MPsub (to ./dump.mpsub)
mplayer dummy.avi \-sub source.sub \-dumpmpsub
.TP
.B Input from standard V4L
mplayer \-tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 \-vc rawi420 \-vo xv
.TP
.B Encoding DVD title #2, only selected chapters
mencoder -dvd 2 -chapter 10-15 -o title2.avi
.TP
.B Encoding DVD title #2, resizing to 640x480
mencoder -dvd 2 -vop scale=640:480 -o title2.avi
.TP
.B Encoding DVD title #2, resizing to 512xHHH (keep aspect ratio)
mencoder -dvd 2 -vop scale -zoom -xy 512 -o title2.avi
.TP
.B The same, but with libavcodec family, MPEG4 (Divx5) compression
mencoder -dvd 2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1800
.TP
.B Encoding all *.jpg files in the current dir
mencoder \*.jpg -mf on:fps=25 -o output.avi
.TP
.B Encoding from tuner (see documentation!)
mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -o tv.avi
.TP
.B Encoding from a pipe
rar p test-SVCD.rar | mencoder -divx4opts br=800 -ofps 24 -pass 1 -- -
.TP
.B Encoding multiple *.vob files
cat *.vob | mencoder <options> -


.SH "BUGS"
Probably. PLEASE, double-check the documentation (especially bugreports.html),
the FAQ and the mail archive before!

Send your complete bugreports to the MPlayer-users mailing list at
<mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu>. We love complete bugreports :)


.SH "AUTHORS"
Check documentation!

MPlayer is (C) 2000\-2002
.I Arpad Gereoffy <sendmail@to.mplayer\-users>

This manpage is written and maintained by
.I Gabucino <sendmail@to.mplayer\-users>.

(Patches done by
.I Jonas Jermann <sendmail@to.mplayer\-users>
)


.SH "STANDARD DISCLAIMER"
Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inaccuracies that could
be damaging to your system or your eye. Proceed with caution, and although
this is highly unlikely, the author doesn't take any responsibility for that!
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