MPlayer is a movie player which runs on numerous systems. It plays the majority MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT , NuppelVideo, RoQ, PVA 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.

An additional great 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, SDL, VESA and some low level card-specific. Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in full screen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.

MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice huge antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

Supported Input Formats:

• (S)VCD (Super Video CD)
• CDRwin's .bin image file
• DVD, including encrypted DVD
• MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB)
• RIFF AVI file format
• ASF/WMV/WMA format
• QT/MOV/MP4 format
• RealAudio/RealVideo format
• Ogg/OGM files
• Matroska
• NUT
• NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video)
• VIVO format
• FLI format
• NuppelVideo format
• yuv4mpeg format
• FILM (.cpk) format
• RoQ format
• PVA format
• streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP
• TV grabbing

Important video codecs:

• MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
• MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
• Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
• Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
• RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
• RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
• Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs
• DV video
• 3ivx
• Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
• Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
• VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
• MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
• FLI/FLC
• HuffYUV
• various old simple RLE-like formats