BSD Ports

multimedia/mplayer 1.5.0.20260404_1 FreeBSD

High performance media player supporting many formats

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
4734268765
License
GPLv2
Categories
multimedia, audio
Package size
1071.7 KiB, 3099.0 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
FreeBSDmultimedia/mplayer1.5.0.20260404_1
OpenBSDx11/mplayer20251123p6
NetBSDmultimedia/mplayer1.5.0.38680nb2
DragonFlymultimedia/mplayer1.5.0.20240928_1
MidnightBSDmultimedia/mplayer${MPLAYER_PORT_VERSION}.${MPLAYER_SNAPSHOT_DATE:S/-//g}_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install mplayer

From the ports tree:

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

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	mplayer>0:multimedia/mplayer

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest1.5.0.20260404_11.5.0.20260404_1-1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20260404_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.5.0.20260404_11.5.0.20260404_1n/a1.5.0.20240928_21.5.0.20260404_1
FreeBSD:15:latest1.5.0.20260404_11.5.0.20260404_1n/a1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.5.0.20260404_11.5.0.20260404_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest1.5.0.20260404_11.5.0.20260404_1n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

Dependencies

The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 111

The first 100 are listed.

Run dependencies 107

The first 100 are listed.

Configuration

Options name: multimedia_mplayer

OptionDefaultDescription
AALIBoffAAlib graphics library support
AMR_NBoffAMR Narrow Band audio support (opencore)
AMR_WBoffAMR Wide Band audio support (opencore)
ASSonSubtitles rendering via libass
BLURAYoffBluRay support
CACAofflibcaca graphics library support
CDIOoffCDIO support via libcdio
DVoffQuasar DV video codec support (libdv)
DVDNAVonDVD navigation features support
ENCAoffCharset conversion via enca
FONTCONFIGonX11 font configuration support
FRIBIDIonBidirectional text support via GNU FriBidi
GIFoffGIF image format support
GNUTLSonSSL/TLS support via GnuTLS
GSMoffGSM codec support
GUIoffGUI (Graphical User Interface) support
IPV6offIPv6 protocol support
JACKoffJACK audio server support
JPEGoffJPEG image format support
LADSPAoffLADSPA audio plugins support
LIBMNGoffMNG animated images support via libmng
LIRCoffInfrared remote control support
LZOoffExternal liblzo support
NASoffNetwork Audio System support
NLSoffNative Language Support
OPENALoffAudio support via OpenAL
OPENGLon2D/3D rendering support via OpenGL
OPENJPEGoffJPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG
OPUSoffOpus audio codec support
PULSEAUDIOoffPulseAudio sound server support
SDLoffSimple Direct Media Layer support
SKINSonInstall skins for GUI
SMBoffSMB network protocol support
SNDIOoffSndio audio support
SPEEXoffSpeex audio format support
SVGALIBoffSVGA graphics support
V4LoffVideo 4 Linux support
VDPAUoffVDPAU (GPU video acceleration) support
VPXoffVP8/VP9 video codec support
X11onX11 (graphics) support
X11DGAonX11 DGA video driver support
X11VMonX11 VidMode support
XINERAMAonX11 Xinerama extension support
XVIDEOonX11 Video extension library support
USES
iconv pkgconfig
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

Files

Manual pages 2
  • gmplayer(1)
  • mplayer(1)
pkg-plist 9
  • bin/mplayer
  • share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz
  • bin/gmplayer
  • share/man/man1/gmplayer.1.gz
  • share/pixmaps/mplayer.png
  • share/mplayer/examples/etc/example.conf
  • share/mplayer/examples/etc/input.conf
  • share/mplayer/examples/etc/menu.conf
  • share/mplayer/examples/etc/dvb-menu.conf
distinfo 2
FileSizeSHA256
mplayer-1.5.0.20250816.tar.xz5.216196e+06418c4f58d1b62a3eafd6b493b017369613d8b01f01d88bc7b916f5d17f9efadb
mplayer-1.5.0.20250816-20260404.patch.xz5480e6fcce3b6f4ac12279e0ddd53ee4d27158f13cd48508e98d5a4ae7deb63d7063

Commit history 1

DateCommitCreditsLog message
4734268765 Vladimir Druzenko multimedia/mencoder: Fix build with FFmpeg9
PR: 297355, 297361 Approved by: blanket Sponsored by: UNIS Labs