CD-DVD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.23, by Dr. Herong Yang
Downloading and Installing MPlayer
This section provides a tutorial on how to download and install MPlayer to play movies and other audio and video files.
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). MPlayer plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies with MPlayer.
Here is how to download and install MPlayer:
1. Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/.
2. Click the "download" menu link.
3. Click and HTTP site in the "MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows" download line. You can select the next line for the GUI version.
4. Save the downloaded file to C:\temp\MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip
5. Unzip the downloaded file and move the output directory to C:\local\mplayer.
6. Run MPlayer command without any arguments to see the help information:
C:\>\local\mplayer\mplayer MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Usage: MPlayer [options] [url|path/]filename Basic options: (complete list in the man page) -vo <drv> select video output driver ('-vo help' for a list) -ao <drv> select audio output driver ('-ao help' for a list) dvd://<titleno> play DVD title from device instead of plain file -alang select audio language (by 2-char country code) -slang select subtitle language (by 2-char country code) -ss <position> seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position -nosound do not play sound -fs fullscreen playback -x <x> -y <y> set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom) -sub <file> specify subtitle file to use -playlist <file> specify playlist file -vid x -aid y select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play -fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate -pp <quality> enable postprocessing filter -framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines) ...
Table of Contents
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format
DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format
TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs
IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool
►Downloading and Installing MPlayer
Playing DVD VOB Files with MPlayer
Playing VCD DAT Files with MPlayer
Playing MPEG Video Files with MPlayer
Playing MP3 Music Files with MPlayer
Playing WAV Music Files with MPlayer
Playing WMA Music Files with MPlayer
vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files
mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files