Mplayer installing

Some of the famous media players based on MPlayer are:. The main reason behind the popularity of MPlayer is its support for a wide range of video files. Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. You can install it from the software center of your distribution or use the package manager of your distribution. In Ubuntu, MPlayer is available from the universe repository.

So make sure that you have enabled universe repository. Remember that MPlayer is essentially a command line tool. You have to start it from the terminal like this:. They are generally stable and recommended. If you have issues with them report it, or use Subversion directly to get a more up-to-date or previous version, or wait for the next snapshot, it might be fixed by then.

The Subversion snapshots are working directories complete with Subversion metadata the result of 'svn checkout'. The source snapshots are bare sources without Subversion metadata the result of 'svn export'. The latest MPlayer release is 1. We recommend to always use the latest SVN to get the all the new features and bugfixes, especially if the release date above looks old. The previous MPlayer release is 1. Use this version if you need compatibility with FFmpeg 2.

We keep the old releases and ancient releases of MPlayer, in case anybody is interested. You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following command to get the latest sources:. Windows XP and Vista have built-in helper applications for this. You need to Unzip the file to a location in your "Program File" directory technically, it doesn't matter where you install the files, but it is good practiceto put them all software in the 'Program Files' directory.

Do this by right-clicking on the file and choosing "Extract All". Highlight the 'Program Files' folder similar to how I have done it in the example above. Dowload all-yyyymmdd. Download a codecs such as all If there is no video or mplayer crashes when playing. Eric is a systems guy.