MPlayer is a very good multimedia program, offering huge opportunities both when playing and when encoding video. It can even play these files on the elevator which would be run after this requirements is not large, even a low hardware can watch the video (using the appropriate parameters in the launch path). When you get to know its capabilities to every movie we see on Linux.

At the beginning we need to download a few things:

    1. w32codec - (Codecs with Win *)
    2. MPlayer - (preferably in the latest version)
    3. Skins - (if you want to use the image overlay - gui)
    4. Font - (font, together with the basic skin also available on my website in the download)

Everything can be found at: www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html

Getting started:

You log in to your root
Unpacks a package of codecs (w32codec), change the name on the win32 folder and moving to / usr / lib.
Now, unpacks program, we start from the command. / Configure
There are many options, typically command:. / Configure - language = en - enable-gui (if we have a compiler yet, add 2.96 - disable-gcc-checking)
If you do everything about make and make install.


MPlayer encoded in addition to films by very popularego divX-a, can play many other file types such as QuickTime, RealPlayer, xanim to play this format you need to download these libraries from the Internet, unpacks and moving it to eg / usr/lib/win32 , it happens, however, that mplayer will not see these libraries for this purpose should be indicated to him "by hand" the path to these files. To this end, we add to the standard path:
- with-xanimlibdir = / usr/lib/win32 - with-reallibdir = / usr/lib/win32 - enable-qtx-codecs

Before adding the above options, wyedytujmy file / etc / ld.so.conf and dopiszmy where the path / usr/lib/win32, when you save to make ldconfig

If it's while watching the movie subtitles are placed in a panorama, you will need this library for SDL.

If someone has a Slack, there is a greater problem (SDL can be found in a single package on the second disc (slack 8.1) in 9.0 is the first), while users Redhatów and have a small problem Mandraków package for SDL is scattered on all the plates in each distribution . Terrible mess. So all you install is called SDL, and immediately after that player.

How to start?
When you do the command: mplayer, the program creates a directory in your home directory. Mplayer in the config file where we can add gui = yes if you want to use the image overlay. Copy the program from the directory / files mplayer-0.90/etc input.conf codecs.conf and to your home directory / home / adam / .mplayer

To overlay work to the directory / usr / local / share / mplayer / Skin copy basic skin called default, if you want to use the font to the font directory, copy the font folder, for example, Arial-28

Using overlays to any graphic arts. I do not recommend it, because then the program does not see a SDL is a hugger-mugger, if we depend on the subtitles in the panorama.