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MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

Mplayer installation becomes very easy for debian users we have a mplayer packages for debian.
If you want to install mplayer in debian sarge,etch and sid follow this procedure

Install Mplayer in debian sarge

First you need to edit you /etc/apt/sources.list file

#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following source list and save the file.

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main

or

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

Now you need to run the following command for update your source list

#apt-get update

Install Mplayer

#apt-get install mplayer

This will install all the required packages and after installation you need to logout and login back with your login to access mplayer.This is located under applications—>sound&video—>MPlayer

Install Mplayer in debian etch

First you need to edit you /etc/apt/sources.list file

#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following source list and save the file.

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

or

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

Now you need to run the following command for update your source list

#apt-get update

Install Mplayer

#apt-get install mplayer

This will install all the required packages and after installation you need to logout and login back with your login to access mplayer.Mplayer is located under applications—>sound&video—>MPlayer

Install Mplayer in debian sid

First you need to edit you /etc/apt/sources.list file

#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following source list and save the file.

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main

Now you need to run the following command for update your source list

#apt-get update

Install Mplayer

#apt-get install mplayer

This will install all the required packages and after installation you need to logout and login back with your login to access mplayer.

Mplayeris located under applications—>sound&video—>MPlayer

Once you open mplayer you should see the following screen

If you are using amd64(only for debian stable version) and you want to install mplayer you need to add the following source list to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ sarge main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main

or

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

If you want to install libdvdcss and w32 codecs check here

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