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MPlayer is the oh-so-popular movie player for Linux. MPlayer has support for pretty much every video and audio format out there and is hence very versatile, even though most people use it for viewing videos.

Contents 1 Installation 2 Additional installation tips 2.1 More codecs 2.2 Frontends/GUIs 2.3 Browser integration 2.3.1 Firefox 2.3.2 Konqueror 3 Usage 3.1 Configuration 3.2 Watching streamed video 3.3 Keybindings 4 External links

[edit] Installation

Type pacman -S mplayer in a shell as root. Done.

[edit] Additional installation tips

[edit] More codecs

To get the most out of MPlayer, you should really consider installing the codecs package, which adds support for Windows codecs, Real9 and QuickTime (.mov). Type pacman -S codecs and you're all set.

[edit] Frontends/GUIs

There are quite a few GUIs for MPlayer. The mplayer package includes the default gmplayer which is skinnable (extra/mplayer-skins).

• Qt: smplayer is in the extra repository. The smplayer-themes package provides themes for it.
• Gtk+: pymp and gnome-mplayer are in the AUR and community repos, respectively.

[edit] Browser integration

If you want to let MPlayer control video viewing in your favorite web browser, try one of the following:

[edit] Firefox

pacman -S mplayer-plugin

[edit] Konqueror

pacman -S kmplayer (also provides a complete frontend to MPlayer.)

[edit] Usage

[edit] Configuration

System-wide configuration is located in /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, whereas the user-local settings are stored in ~/.mplayer/config.

[edit] Watching streamed video

If you want to play a video stream (e.g *.asx link) use mplayer -playlist linktostream.asx to play the stream as these are playlists of streams and won't be playable omitting the -playlist option.

[edit] Keybindings

This is a list of the most basic MPlayer keys.

Key	Description
p	Toggle pause/play.
Space	Toggle pause/play.
Left	Seek backward ten seconds.
Right	Seek forward ten seconds.
Down	Seek backward one minute.
Up	Seek forward one minute.
<	Go back in the playlist.
>	Go forward in the playlist.
m	Mute the sound.
0	Volume up.
9	Volume down.
f	Toggle fullscreen mode.
o	Toggle OSD state.
j	Toggle subtitle visibility.
I	Show filename.
1, 2	Adjust contrast.
3, 4	Adjust brightness.

[edit] External links

• Official MPlayer website