MPlayer FAQ

This page will attempt to answer all of the frequent questions we get in the #mplayer irc channel on irc.freenode.net.

Official MPlayer Frequently asked Questions: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html

MPlayer FAQ by relaxed: http://johnvansickle.com/faq

Questions from #mplayer channel:

Hi,I amlooking for a way to automatically convert ogg to mp3 I must give a directory and have everything in converted is it possible to achievve such a thing with mplayer ?

• use aconvert found in mplayer source TOOLS/aconvert .

anyone know how to play mp4 files with sound? i can only see video but no audio

• check mplayer output for helpful messages.
• Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available. Enable it at compilation.
• your mplayer was not compiled with faad support. recompile it after installing libfaad package.

Hi, im using a Mplayer windows gui. is there a way to make subtitles smaller? mpui its named

• subfont-text-scale=3 in config

What exactly is the name of the fonts mplayer wants? It can not find that CID whatever here. Or a package name I can request?

• symlink any ttf font to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or use -font /dir/file.ttf

Hi folks, is there a way to "tell" mplayer (not gmplayer) not to exit when a file has been played and then wait for some new input? via a fifo or whatever

• http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt
• mplayer -input=/fifo

Anyway to dump a dvd audio stream really fast?

• mplayer -dumpaudio dvd:// -speed 90 -vc null -vo null -benchmark

i have a corrupt file that mplayer plays, how do i get a new "clean" version of the audio?

• mplayer file -ao pcm

X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events

• Option "LinearAlloc" "8192" in my xorg.conf is what I need

i have a widescreen lcd monitor and everything is stretched, help!

• use -monitoraspect 16:10 or -monitorpixelaspect 1.125

how do I set the video window to double size when running mplayer from command line? cannot find it in man file...

• mplayer -xy 2

How to setup XvMC ?

• Get xmvc dev lib (libxvmc-dev) and compile MPlayer with --enable-xvmc
• Point /etc/X11/XvMCConfig to your /lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.* , for example : echo "libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.9742" > /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
• mplayer -vc ffmpeg12mc yourmovie.mpeg2
• NB : works only with mpeg2 and mpeg.

How to include mplayer in a java application or program or library?

• http://jajuk.cvs.sourceforge.net/jajuk/jajuk/src/org/jajuk/players/MPlayerPlayerImpl.java?view=log

How to set video as wallpaper ?

• mplayer -rootwin yourmovie (Only works with the x11, xv, xmga, xvidix, quartz, macosx and directx video output drivers.)
• Gnome : gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool false (to disable background)

having adjusted the hue/contrast previously, what's an easy way to set them all back to neutral?

• use xvattr
• rpm packages at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xvattr/