Mplayer Basics

Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Compile flags

$ emerge -pv media-video//mplayer

USE="X aac¹ alsa amr ass cdparanoia² color-console dga directfb dts dv³ dvd dvdnav enca encode fbcon ggi gif gtk i8x0 ipv6 jpeg lzo mmx mmxext mp3⁴ openal opengl png quicktime⁵ rar⁶ real rtc speex sse sse2 theora truetype twolame unicode vorbis win32codecs x264⁷ xinerama xv xvid xvmc -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -doc -dvb -esd -ivtv -jack -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -matrox -musepack -nas -nls -nvidia -oss -radio -samba -sdl -svga -tga -v4l -v4l2 -xanim"

Size

$ qsize mplayer

media-video/mplayer-9999-r14: 167 files, 28 non-files, 15369.525 KB

Available Drivers

Audio

$ mplayer -ao help

CPLAYER: MPlayer dev-SVN-r22429 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPUDETECT: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5)
  CPLAYER: CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
  CPLAYER: Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
 AUDIOOUT: Available audio output drivers:
   GLOBAL:      alsa    ALSA-0.9.x-1.x audio output
   GLOBAL:      openal  OpenAL audio output
   GLOBAL:      mpegpes Mpeg-PES audio output
   GLOBAL:      null    Null audio output
   GLOBAL:      pcm     RAW PCM/WAVE file writer audio output
   GLOBAL: 
 CODECCFG: 107 audio & 227 video codecs

Video

$ mplayer -vo help

CPLAYER: MPlayer dev-SVN-r22429 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPUDETECT: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5)
  CPLAYER: CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
  CPLAYER: Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
  CPLAYER: Available video output drivers:
   GLOBAL:      xv      X11/Xv
   GLOBAL:      x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
   GLOBAL:      xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
   GLOBAL:      gl      X11 (OpenGL)
   GLOBAL:      gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
   GLOBAL:      dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
   GLOBAL:      ggi     General Graphics Interface (GGI) output
   GLOBAL:      fbdev   Framebuffer Device
   GLOBAL:      fbdev2  Framebuffer Device
   GLOBAL:      null    Null video output
   GLOBAL:      xvmc    XVideo Motion Compensation
   GLOBAL:      mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
   GLOBAL:      yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
   GLOBAL:      png     PNG file
   GLOBAL:      jpeg    JPEG file
   GLOBAL:      gif89a  animated GIF output
   GLOBAL:      pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
   GLOBAL:      md5sum  md5sum of each frame
   GLOBAL: 
 CODECCFG: 107 audio & 227 video codecs

Footnotes

1. media-libs/faac

2. media-sound/cdparanoia

3. media-libs/libdv (> 0.9.5)

4. media-sound/lame

5. media-libss/libquicktime

6. configure: enable rar unrarlib

7. media-libs/x264-svn (> 20061014)