Mplayer

From openSUSE

MPlayer is an opensource multimedia engine available for Linux and UNIX systems. Some Linux applications use MPlayer for their multimedia playback capability's, such as the LiVeS video editing software. MPlayer can play a very wide variety of video and audio files as well as a wide variety of network protocols. There are frontends like SMPlayer available for MPlayer.

Getting MPlayer

The YaST way:

• Add the Packman repositories in YaST
• Type in mplayer in the Search text field
• Tick the box and click on the Accept button

The Other way:

• Click here (open in a new tab)
• Click the the One Click Install button

Features

• plays CDs, DVDs, Video CDs
• supports 3GP, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM and RealMedia video container formats.
• supports Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora and WMV video formats.
• supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, FLAC, Intel Music Coder, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Musepack, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis and WMA audio formats.
• supports AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, Sami, SRT, SubViewer, VOBsub and VPlayer subtitle formats.
• supports BMP, JPEG, PCX, PTX, TGA, TIFF, SGI and Sun Raster image formats.
• supports RTP, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, MMS, Netstream (mpst://) and SMB network protocols.

See Also

• MPlayer commands for VDPAU
• Find out the aspect ratio of my video