It allows the newer Nvidia video cards to decode the video without using much CPU. There are several ways to speed up the playback of 1080 H.264 files in MPlayer.įirst is to use the newly added VDPAU output. To activate the menu and to get nice OSD & subtitle font, put these lines in your ~/.mplayer/conf file: MPlayer is in the main Debian repository.

Feel free to add your own tips and tricks and examples are also welcome.ġ.In all instance, the console/terminal prompt # refer to 'root' usage and $ refer to normal usage.Ģ.I use apt-get in all instances of package management but feel free to use your own such as aptitude or synaptic. This HOW-TO explains how to setup MPlayer on your Debian system. Please consulate the MPlayer documentations at mplayerhq website for features, supported input formats, supported video & audio codecs, and supported video & audio output devices. If you are either not comfortable with CLI or need features like DVD navigational menus I would suggest you use SMplayer which is available in the Debian repository. MPlayer by itself is a command-line tool (CLI), however there is a graphical frontend called gmplayer that come by default with at least one skin theme (mplayer-skin-blue). It can play media such as DVD, VCD, CD, DVB, web-stream, and in any containers such as SMplayer, KMplayer, MythTV, Kaffeine, etc.

MPlayer is a high quality media player with feature rich options that can play almost every known media files.

Smplayer file menu