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MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, like Windows, MAC...). It plays most DVD, VCD, MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files. Mencoder is a converter that supports many input video formats. Command line tools but several frontend/GUIs available like SMPlayer available.
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Latest version: N/A (October 08, 2007) Download sites: Download from author site Windows Mac OS Linux More information and other downloads: Download MPlayer frontend/GUI for Windows Download MPUI here - A mplayer frontend/GUI for Windows. Download rulesPlayer here, another GUI for mplayer. Download AutoMen here, a very simple gui for Mencoder Download EncodeDar here, another frontend/gui for Mencoder. Download WinMEnc here, WinMEnc is the free GUI frontend of mencoder. Download LinCoder, a java frontend mencoder. More mirrors with OPTIMIZED mplayer and mencoder command line builds: Download Kovensky's MPlayer and Mencoder builds here Download Pahl's MPlayer and Mencoder builds here Download Sherpay's MPlayer and Mencoder builds here Sections/Browse similar tools: Linux video tools, MacOS video tools, Video Encoders, Video Players Alert me! when this software has been updated. |
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Converting VHS to DVD under Linux HOWTO - Read View all guides with guide description here How To Convert iPod Video to Divx using mencoder - Read How to convert MKV to AVI or OGM to AVI using mencoder - Read How to convert MOV files created by a Kodak digital camera - Read How to Convert Quicktime MOV HD Video Files to MPEG-2 - Read Quick and easy DVD + VCD creation under Linux - Read Acronyms / Also Known As: Mencoder, MPUI, Automen, EncodeDar, WinMEnc
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I found this tool to be quite effective in my setup. I use MythTV to record programs and encode them to DVD complaint MPEG2's or XviD AVI's. I have been using it for more than a year consistantly without any problem. The previous poster's message that it takes hours to compile does not happen on my computer. On my computer it takes only 5-7 minutes to compile. I like this program.
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A decent player IF you can compile it, and that's a huge IF! Too many oddball dependencies, and many of the optional features are not available even with the proper dependencies. Last time I compiled it successfully, was an older version under Fedora Core 2 and with the GUI. It took 9 hours straight. That is not a misprint, and not just the compile time either - half of it was debugging it's cryptic errors. This latest version doesn't seem to want to compile at all - I gave up after 3 hours on FC4 and settled on compiling the commandline-only version. By the way, the current version is not compatible at all under FC5, though I suppose it will eventually be supported - no commandline OR GUI version! On top of it all, the GUI interface is minimal at best and (at least the older version) doesn't seem to support playlists, or at least making multiple selections. It's one strong suit is that it works with many codecs - but, supposedly, so do other players. Personally, I consider MPlayer a last resort to be used only if you can't get one of the other players to work and if you MUST have multimedia capability on Linux.
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MPlayer will play just about anything you throw at it -- but it takes a little getting used to, especially if you've never worked with a command line before. Once installed and set up (which entails getting the font right for subtitles and getting various playback options set in a prefs file) I found I could control playback of files and DVDs very precisely. It'll do exactly what you want -- once you get into the groove of it.
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I was able to save a .rm file that I could get with any other tool. See [url]http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1421324#1421324[/url].
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Download windows gui from here http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php file http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/gui/mplayer-gui-rtm-cvs-20051031.zip Plays mp4 files like a dream (among other things)
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the BEST, i use it exclusively for playing oggs, encoding mpg's etc...
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