BSD Ports

multimedia/mplayer 1.5.0.20240928_1 DragonFly

High performance media player supporting many formats

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
audio, multimedia
Package size
1043.3 KiB, 3334.1 KiB installed

Description

MPlayer is a multimedia player and encoder suite which runs on many platforms. It plays a terrific number of different file formats and codecs including popular DivX, XviD, H.264 streams as well as DVD and SVCDs along with many popular audio codecs. On the i386 platform it also supports some Windows DLL codec families which allow playing of e.g. QuickTime movies.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlymultimedia/mplayer1.5.0.20240928_1
FreeBSDmultimedia/mplayer1.5.0.20260404_1
OpenBSDx11/mplayer20251123p6
NetBSDmultimedia/mplayer1.5.0.38680nb2
MidnightBSDmultimedia/mplayer${MPLAYER_PORT_VERSION}.${MPLAYER_SNAPSHOT_DATE:S/-//g}_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install mplayer

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/multimedia/mplayer && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 29

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

MPlayer's comprehensive documentation covers many topics like
output devices, video encoding, repairing broken files etc.
It is auto-generated daily and can be found on the project
homepage in the documentation section:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/documentation.html

MPlayer's system-wide configuration dir is

/usr/local/etc/mplayer

If you want to install configuration files into this location
in order to change mplayer's default settings for all users on
your system, you find some examples in

/usr/local/share/mplayer/examples/etc