Provided by: mplayer2_2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2_amd64 
NAME
mplayer2 - movie player
SYNOPSIS
mplayer [options] [file|URL|playlist|-]
mplayer [options] file1 [specific options] [file2] [specific options]
mplayer [options] {group of files and options} [group-specific options]
mplayer [br]://[title][/device] [options]
mplayer [dvd|dvdnav]://[title|[start_title]-end_title][/device] [options]
mplayer vcd://track[/device]
mplayer tv://[channel][/input_id] [options]
mplayer radio://[channel|frequency][/capture] [options]
mplayer pvr:// [options]
mplayer dvb://[card_number@]channel [options]
mplayer mf://[filemask|@listfile] [-mf options] [options]
mplayer [cdda|cddb]://track[-endtrack][:speed][/device] [options]
mplayer cue://file[:track] [options]
mplayer [file|mms[t]|http|http_proxy|rt[s]p|ftp|udp|unsv|icyx|noicyx|smb]:// [user:pass@]URL[:port] [options]
mplayer sdp://file [options]
mplayer mpst://host[:port]/URL [options]
mplayer tivo://host/[list|llist|fsid] [options]
DESCRIPTION
mplayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other platforms and CPU architectures, see the
documentation). It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle
types. Special input URL types are available to read input from a variety of sources other than disk
files. Depending on platform, a variety of different video and audio output methods are supported.
Usage examples to get you started quickly can be found at the end of this man page.
INTERACTIVE CONTROL
MPlayer has a fully configurable, command-driven control layer which allows you to control MPlayer using
keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote control (with LIRC). The sections below describe the default
bindings. Bindings can be freely reconfigured in the input.conf configuration file.
Key input works in either video playback window or terminal window. Modifier keys (Alt, Ctrl and Meta,
plus Shift for combinations with non-printable characters like Shift+RIGHT) may work only partially or
not at all depending on the platform and input method. For example, terminal input does not support
modifiers at all, while Linux video outputs using X support arbitrary modifier combinations.
keyboard control
LEFT and RIGHT
Seek backward/forward 10 seconds. These keys will only seek to video keyframes, so the actual step
may be more than 10 seconds.
UP and DOWN
Seek forward/backward 1 minute.
PGUP and PGDWN
Seek forward/backward 10 minutes.
Shift+LEFT and Shift+RIGHT
Seek backward/forward exactly 1 second using precise seeking (see option --hr-seek for details).
Shift+UP and Shift+DOWN
Seek forward/backward exactly 5 seconds using precise seeking (see option --hr-seek for details).
[ and ]
Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.
{ and }
Halve/double current playback speed.
BACKSPACE
Reset playback speed to normal.
< and >
Go backward/forward in the playlist.
ENTER Go forward in the playlist, even over the end.
HOME and END
next/previous playtree entry in the parent list
INS and DEL (ASX playlist only)
next/previous alternative source.
p / SPACE
Pause (pressing again unpauses).
. Step forward. Pressing once will pause movie, every consecutive press will play one frame and then
go into pause mode again.
q / ESC
Stop playing and quit.
U Stop playing (and quit if --idle is not used).
+ and -
Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
/ and *
Decrease/increase volume.
9 and 0
Decrease/increase volume.
( and )
Adjust audio balance in favor of left/right channel.
m Mute sound.
_ Cycle through the available video tracks.
# Cycle through the available audio tracks.
TAB (MPEG-TS and libavformat only)
Cycle through the available programs.
f Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs).
T Toggle stay-on-top (see also --ontop).
w and e
Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.
o Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time.
d Toggle frame dropping states: none / skip display / skip decoding (see --framedrop and
--hardframedrop).
v Toggle subtitle visibility.
j and J
Cycle through the available subtitles.
F Toggle displaying "forced subtitles".
a Toggle subtitle alignment: top / middle / bottom.
x and z
Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
V Toggle subtitle VSFilter aspect compatibility mode. See --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat for more
info.
C (--capture only)
Start/stop capturing the primary stream.
r and t
Move subtitles up/down.
i (--edlout mode only)
Set start or end of an EDL skip and write it out to the given file.
s Take a screenshot. The file will contain the original video image only, without extra elements
like separate subtitles or OSD content.
S Start/stop taking video-only screenshots of every new frame drawn.
Alt+s Take a screenshot of the current player window contents. The file will contain the current
contents of the player window: video will be scaled to the current window size, and any subtitle
or OSD elements will be included.
Alt+S Start/stop taking screenshots of the player window for every new frame drawn.
I Show filename on the OSD.
P Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD.
! and @
Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter.
D (--vo=vdpau, --vf=yadif, --vf=kerndeint only)
Activate/deactivate deinterlacer.
A Cycle through the available DVD angles.
c Change YUV colorspace.
(The following keys are valid only when using a video output that supports the corresponding adjustment,
the software equalizer (--vf=eq or --vf=eq2) or hue filter (--vf=hue).)
1 and 2
Adjust contrast.
3 and 4
Adjust brightness.
5 and 6
Adjust hue.
7 and 8
Adjust saturation.
(The following keys are valid only when using the corevideo video output driver.)
command + 0
Resize movie window to half its original size.
command + 1
Resize movie window to its original size.
command + 2
Resize movie window to double its original size.
command + f
Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs).
command + [ and command + ]
Set movie window alpha.
(The following keys are valid only when using the sdl video output driver.)
c Cycle through available fullscreen modes.
n Restore original mode.
(The following keys are valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia keys.)
PAUSE Pause.
STOP Stop playing and quit.
PREVIOUS and NEXT
Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
(The following keys are only valid if you compiled with TV or DVB input support and will take precedence
over the keys defined above.)
h and k
Select previous/next channel.
n Change norm.
u Change channel list.
(The following keys are only valid if you compiled with dvdnav support: They are used to navigate the
menus.)
keypad 8
Select button up.
keypad 2
Select button down.
keypad 4
Select button left.
keypad 6
Select button right.
keypad 5
Return to main menu.
keypad 7
Return to nearest menu (the order of preference is: chapter->title->root).
keypad ENTER
Confirm choice.
(The following keys are used for controlling TV teletext. The data may come from either an analog TV
source or an MPEG transport stream.)
X Switch teletext on/off.
Q and W
Go to next/prev teletext page.
mouse control
button 3 and button 4
Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
button 5 and button 6
Decrease/increase volume.
joystick control
left and right
Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
up and down
Seek forward/backward 1 minute.
button 1
Pause.
button 2
Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time.
button 3 and button 4
Decrease/increase volume.
USAGE
Every flag option has a no-flag counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the --fs option is --no-fs. --fs=yes is
same as --fs, --fs=no is the same as --no-fs.
If an option is marked as (XXX only), it will only work in combination with the XXX option or if XXX is
compiled in.
NOTE: The suboption parser (used for example for --ao=pcm suboptions)
supports a special kind of string-escaping intended for use with external
GUIs.
It has the following format:
%n%string_of_length_n
EXAMPLES:
mplayer --ao pcm:file=%10%C:test.wav test.avi
Or in a script:
mplayer --ao pcm:file=%`expr length "$NAME"`%"$NAME" test.avi
CONFIGURATION FILES
You can put all of the options in configuration files which will be read every time MPlayer is run. The
system-wide configuration file 'mplayer.conf' is in your configuration directory (e.g. /etc/mplayer or
/usr/local/etc/mplayer), the user specific one is ~/.mplayer/config. User specific options override
system-wide options and options given on the command line override either. The syntax of the
configuration files is option=<value>, everything after a # is considered a comment. Options that work
without values can be enabled by setting them to yes or 1 or true and disabled by setting them to no or 0
or false. Even suboptions can be specified in this way.
You can also write file-specific configuration files. If you wish to have a configuration file for a file
called 'movie.avi', create a file named 'movie.avi.conf' with the file-specific options in it and put it
in ~/.mplayer/. You can also put the configuration file in the same directory as the file to be played,
as long as you give the --use-filedir-conf option (either on the command line or in your global config
file). If a file-specific configuration file is found in the same directory, no file-specific
configuration is loaded from ~/.mplayer. In addition, the --use-filedir-conf option enables
directory-specific configuration files. For this, MPlayer first tries to load a mplayer.conf from the
same directory as the file played and then tries to load any file-specific configuration.
EXAMPLE MPLAYER CONFIGURATION FILE:
# Use gl3 video output by default.
vo=gl3
# I love practicing handstands while watching videos.
flip=yes
# Decode multiple files from PNG,
# start with mf://filemask
mf=type=png:fps=25
# Eerie negative images are cool.
vf=eq2=1.0:-0.8
PROFILES
To ease working with different configurations profiles can be defined in the configuration files. A
profile starts with its name between square brackets, e.g. [my-profile]. All following options will be
part of the profile. A description (shown by --profile=help) can be defined with the profile-desc option.
To end the profile, start another one or use the profile name default to continue with normal options.
EXAMPLE MPLAYER PROFILE:
[protocol.dvd]
profile-desc="profile for dvd:// streams"
vf=pp=hb/vb/dr/al/fd
alang=en
[protocol.dvdnav]
profile-desc="profile for dvdnav:// streams"
profile=protocol.dvd
mouse-movements=yes
nocache=yes
[extension.flv]
profile-desc="profile for .flv files"
flip=yes
OPTIONS
--a52drc=<level>
Select the Dynamic Range Compression level for AC-3 audio streams. <level> is a float value
ranging from 0 to 1, where 0 means no compression and 1 (which is the default) means full
compression (make loud passages more silent and vice versa). Values up to 2 are also accepted, but
are purely experimental. This option only shows an effect if the AC-3 stream contains the required
range compression information.
--abs=<value>
(--ao=oss only) (OBSOLETE) Override audio driver/card buffer size detection.
--ac=<[-\|+]codec1,[-\|+]codec2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of audio codecs to be used, according to their codec name in codecs.conf.
Use a '-' before the codec name to omit it. Use a '+' before the codec name to force it, this
will likely crash! If the list has a trailing ',' MPlayer will fall back on codecs not contained
in the list.
NOTE: See --ac=help for a full list of available codecs.
EXAMPLE:
--ac=mp3acm
Force the l3codeca.acm MP3 codec.
--ac=mad,
Try libmad first, then fall back on others.
--ac=hwac3,a52,
Try hardware AC-3 passthrough, software AC-3, then others.
--ac=hwdts,
Try hardware DTS passthrough, then fall back on others.
--ac=-ffmp3,
Skip FFmpeg's MP3 decoder.
--adapter=<value>
Set the graphics card that will receive the image. You can get a list of available cards when you
run this option with -v. Currently only works with the directx video output driver.
--af=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
Specify a list of audio filters to apply to the audio stream. See 'Audio Filters`_ for details and
descriptions of the available filters. The option variants --af-add, --af-pre, --af-del and
--af-clr exist to modify a previously specified list, but you shouldn't need these for typical
use.
--af-adv=<force=(0-7):list=(filters)>
See also --af. Specify advanced audio filter options:
force=<0-7>
Forces the insertion of audio filters to one of the following:
0 Use completely automatic filter insertion (currently identical to 1).
1 Optimize for accuracy (default).
2 Optimize for speed. Warning: Some features in the audio filters may silently fail,
and the sound quality may drop.
3 Use no automatic insertion of filters and no optimization. Warning: It may be
possible to crash MPlayer using this setting.
4 Use automatic insertion of filters according to 0 above, but use floating point
processing when possible.
5 Use automatic insertion of filters according to 1 above, but use floating point
processing when possible.
6 Use automatic insertion of filters according to 2 above, but use floating point
processing when possible.
7 Use no automatic insertion of filters according to 3 above, and use floating point
processing when possible.
list=<filters>
Same as --af.
--afm=<driver1,driver2,...>
Specify a priority list of audio codec families to be used, according to their codec name in
codecs.conf. Falls back on the default codecs if none of the given codec families work.
NOTE: See --afm=help for a full list of available codec families.
EXAMPLE:
--afm=ffmpeg
Try FFmpeg's libavcodec codecs first.
--afm=acm,dshow
Try Win32 codecs first.
--aid=<ID>
Select audio channel (MPEG: 0-31, AVI/OGM: 1-99, ASF/RM: 0-127, VOB(AC-3): 128-159, VOB(LPCM):
160-191, MPEG-TS 17-8190). MPlayer prints the available audio IDs when run in verbose (-v) mode.
When playing an MPEG-TS stream, MPlayer will use the first program (if present) with the chosen
audio stream. See also --alang.
--alang=<languagecode[,languagecode,...]>
Specify a priority list of audio languages to use. Different container formats employ different
language codes. DVDs use ISO 639-1 two letter language codes, Matroska, MPEG-TS and NUT use ISO
639-2 three letter language codes while OGM uses a free-form identifier. MPlayer prints the
available languages when run in verbose (-v) mode. See also --aid.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer dvd://1 --alang=hu,en
Chooses the Hungarian language track on a DVD and falls back on English if Hungarian is not
available.
mplayer --alang=jpn example.mkv
Plays a Matroska file in Japanese.
--ao=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of audio output drivers to be used. For interactive use you'd normally
specify a single one to use, but in configuration files specifying a list of fallbacks may make
sense. See Audio Output Drivers for details and descriptions of available drivers.
--ar, --no-ar
Enable/disable AppleIR remote support. Enabled by default.
--aspect=<ratio>
Override movie aspect ratio, in case aspect information is incorrect or missing in the file being
played. See also --noaspect.
EXAMPLE:
• --aspect=4:3 or --aspect=1.3333
• --aspect=16:9 or --aspect=1.7777
--ass, --no-ass
Use libass to render all text subtitles. This enables support for the native styling of SSA/ASS
subtitles, and also support for some styling features in other subtitle formats by conversion to
ASS markup. Enabled by default if the player was compiled with libass support.
NOTE: Some of the other subtitle options were written for the old non-libass subtitle rendering
system and may not work the same way or at all with libass rendering enabled.
--ass-border-color=<value>
Sets the border (outline) color for text subtitles. The color format is RRGGBBAA.
--ass-bottom-margin=<value>
Adds a black band at the bottom of the frame. The SSA/ASS renderer can place subtitles there (with
--ass-use-margins).
--ass-color=<value>
Sets the color for text subtitles. The color format is RRGGBBAA.
--ass-font-scale=<value>
Set the scale coefficient to be used for fonts in the SSA/ASS renderer.
--ass-force-style=<[Style.]Param=Value[,...]>
Override some style or script info parameters.
EXAMPLE:
• --ass-force-style=FontName=Arial,Default.Bold=1
• --ass-force-style=PlayResY=768
--ass-hinting=<type>
Set hinting type. <type> can be:
0 no hinting
1 FreeType autohinter, light mode
2 FreeType autohinter, normal mode
3 font native hinter
0-3 + 4
The same, but hinting will only be performed if the OSD is rendered at screen resolution
and will therefore not be scaled.
The default value is 0 (no hinting).
--ass-line-spacing=<value>
Set line spacing value for SSA/ASS renderer.
--ass-styles=<filename>
Load all SSA/ASS styles found in the specified file and use them for rendering text subtitles. The
syntax of the file is exactly like the [V4 Styles] / [V4+ Styles] section of SSA/ASS.
--ass-top-margin=<value>
Adds a black band at the top of the frame. The SSA/ASS renderer can place toptitles there (with
--ass-use-margins).
--ass-use-margins
Enables placing toptitles and subtitles in black borders when they are available.
--ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat
Stretch SSA/ASS subtitles when playing anamorphic videos for compatibility with traditional
VSFilter behavior. This switch has no effect when the video is stored with square pixels.
The renderer historically most commonly used for the SSA/ASS subtitle formats, VSFilter, had
questionable behavior that resulted in subtitles being stretched too if the video was stored in
anamorphic format that required scaling for display. This behavior is usually undesirable and
newer VSFilter versions may behave differently. However, many existing scripts compensate for the
stretching by modifying things in the opposite direction. Thus if such scripts are displayed
"correctly" they will not appear as intended. This switch enables emulation of the old VSFilter
behavior (undesirable but expected by many existing scripts).
Enabled by default.
--audio-demuxer=<[+]name>
Force audio demuxer type when using --audiofile. Use a '+' before the name to force it, this will
skip some checks! Give the demuxer name as printed by --audio-demuxer=help. --audio-demuxer=audio
forces MP3.
--audiofile=<filename>
Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) while viewing a movie.
--audiofile-cache=<kBytes>
Enables caching for the stream used by --audiofile, using the specified amount of memory.
--ausid=<ID>
Select audio substream channel. Currently the valid range is 0x55..0x75 and applies only to
MPEG-TS when handled by the native demuxer (not by libavformat). The format type may not be
correctly identified because of how this information (or lack thereof) is embedded in the stream,
but it will demux correctly the audio streams when multiple substreams are present. MPlayer prints
the available substream IDs when run with --identify. See also --alang.
--autoq=<quality>
Used with --vf=[s]pp. Dynamically changes the level of postprocessing depending on the available
spare CPU time. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you can use some
big number. You have to use --vf=[s]pp without parameters in order for this to work.
--autosub, --no-autosub
Load additional subtitle files matching the video filename. Enabled by default. See also
--sub-fuzziness.
--autosync=<factor>
Gradually adjusts the A/V sync based on audio delay measurements. Specifying --autosync=0, the
default, will cause frame timing to be based entirely on audio delay measurements. Specifying
--autosync=1 will do the same, but will subtly change the A/V correction algorithm. An uneven
video framerate in a movie which plays fine with --nosound can often be helped by setting this to
an integer value greater than 1. The higher the value, the closer the timing will be to --nosound.
Try --autosync=30 to smooth out problems with sound drivers which do not implement a perfect audio
delay measurement. With this value, if large A/V sync offsets occur, they will only take about 1
or 2 seconds to settle out. This delay in reaction time to sudden A/V offsets should be the only
side-effect of turning this option on, for all sound drivers.
--bandwidth=<Bytes>
Specify the maximum bandwidth for network streaming (for servers that are able to send content in
different bitrates). Useful if you want to watch live streamed media behind a slow connection.
With Real RTSP streaming, it is also used to set the maximum delivery bandwidth allowing faster
cache filling and stream dumping.
--benchmark
Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end of playback. Use in combination
with --nosound and --vo=null for benchmarking only the video codec.
NOTE: With this option MPlayer will also ignore frame duration when playing only video (you can
think of that as infinite fps).
--bluray-angle=<ID>
Some Blu-ray discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles. Here you can tell
MPlayer which angles to use (default: 1).
--bluray-chapter=<ID>
(Blu-ray only) Tells MPlayer which Blu-ray chapter to start the current title from (default: 1).
--bluray-device=<path>
(Blu-ray only) Specify the Blu-ray disc location. Must be a directory with Blu-ray structure.
--border, --no-border
Play movie with window border and decorations. Since this is on by default, use --no-border to
disable the standard window decorations.
--bpp=<depth>
Override the autodetected color depth. Only supported by the fbdev, dga, svga, vesa video output
drivers.
--brightness=<-100-100>
Adjust the brightness of the video signal (default: 0). Not supported by all video output drivers.
--cache=<kBytes>
Enable caching of the input stream (if not already enabled) and set the size of the cache in
kilobytes. Caching is enabled by default (with a default cache size) for network streams. May be
useful when playing files from slow media, but can also have negative effects, especially with
file formats that require a lot of seeking, such as mp4. See also --nocache.
--cache-min=<percentage>
Playback will start when the cache has been filled up to <percentage> of the total.
--cache-seek-min=<percentage>
If a seek is to be made to a position within <percentage> of the cache size from the current
position, MPlayer will wait for the cache to be filled to this position rather than performing a
stream seek (default: 50).
--capture
Allows capturing the primary stream (not additional audio tracks or other kind of streams) into
the file specified by --dumpfile or by default. If this option is given, capturing can be started
and stopped by pressing the key bound to this function (see section Interactive Control). Same as
for --dumpstream, this will likely not produce usable results for anything else than MPEG streams.
Note that, due to cache latencies, captured data may begin and end somewhat delayed compared to
what you see displayed.
--cdda=<option1:option2>
This option can be used to tune the CD Audio reading feature of MPlayer.
Available options are:
speed=<value>
Set CD spin speed.
paranoia=<0-2>
Set paranoia level. Values other than 0 seem to break playback of anything but the first
track.
0 disable checking (default)
1 overlap checking only
2 full data correction and verification
generic-dev=<value>
Use specified generic SCSI device.
sector-size=<value>
Set atomic read size.
overlap=<value>
Force minimum overlap search during verification to <value> sectors.
toc-bias
Assume that the beginning offset of track 1 as reported in the TOC will be addressed as LBA
0. Some Toshiba drives need this for getting track boundaries correct.
toc-offset=<value>
Add <value> sectors to the values reported when addressing tracks. May be negative.
(no)skip
(Never) accept imperfect data reconstruction.
--cdrom-device=<path>
Specify the CD-ROM device (default: /dev/cdrom).
--channels=<number>
Request the number of playback channels (default: 2). MPlayer asks the decoder to decode the audio
into as many channels as specified. Then it is up to the decoder to fulfill the requirement. This
is usually only important when playing videos with AC-3 audio (like DVDs). In that case liba52
does the decoding by default and correctly downmixes the audio into the requested number of
channels. To directly control the number of output channels independently of how many channels are
decoded, use the channels filter (--af=channels).
NOTE: This option is honored by codecs (AC-3 only), filters (surround) and audio output drivers
(OSS at least).
Available options are:
2 stereo
4 surround
6 full 5.1
8 full 7.1
--chapter=<start[-end]>
Specify which chapter to start playing at. Optionally specify which chapter to end playing at
(default: 1).
--chapter-merge-threshold=<number>
Threshold for merging almost consecutive ordered chapter parts in milliseconds (default: 100).
Some Matroska files with ordered chapters have inaccurate chapter end timestamps, causing a small
gap between the end of one chapter and the start of the next one when they should match. If the
end of one playback part is less than the given threshold away from the start of the next one then
keep playing video normally over the chapter change instead of doing a seek.
--codecpath=<dir>
Specify a directory for binary codecs.
--codecs-file=<filename>
Override the standard search path and use the specified file instead of the builtin codecs.conf.
--colorkey=<number>
Changes the colorkey to an RGB value of your choice. 0x000000 is black and 0xffffff is white. Only
supported by the xv (see --vo=xv:ck) and directx video output drivers. See also --nocolorkey.
--colormatrix=<colorspace>
Controls the YUV to RGB color space conversion when playing video. There are various standards.
Normally, BT.601 should be used for SD video, and BT.709 for HD video. (This is done by default.)
Using incorrect color space results in slightly under or over saturated and shifted colors.
The color space conversion is additionally influenced by the related options
--colormatrix-input-range and --colormatrix-output-range.
These options are not always supported. Different video outputs provide varying degrees of
support. The gl and vdpau video output drivers usually offer full support. The xv output can set
the color space if the system video driver supports it, but not input and output levels. The scale
video filter can configure color space and input levels, but only if the output format is RGB (if
the video output driver supports RGB output, you can force this with -vf scale,format=rgba).
If this option is set to auto (which is the default), the video's color space flag will be used.
If that flag is unset, the color space will be selected automatically. This is done using a simple
heuristic that attempts to distinguish SD and HD video. If the video is larger than 1279x576
pixels, BT.709 (HD) will be used; otherwise BT.601 (SD) is selected.
Available color spaces are:
auto automatic selection (default)
BT.601 ITU-R BT.601 (SD)
BT.709 ITU-R BT.709 (HD)
SMPTE-240M
SMPTE-240M
sd alias for BT.601
hd alias for BT.709
0 compatibility alias for auto (do not use)
1 compatibility alias for BT.601 (do not use)
2 compatibility alias for BT.709 (do not use)
3 compatibility alias for SMPTE-240M (do not use)
--colormatrix-input-range=<color-range>
YUV color levels used with YUV to RGB conversion. This option is only necessary when playing
broken files, which don't follow standard color levels or which are flagged wrong. If the video
doesn't specify its color range, it is assumed to be limited range.
The same limitations as with --colormatrix apply.
Available color ranges are:
auto automatic selection (normally limited range) (default)
limited
limited range (16-235 for luma, 16-240 for chroma)
full full range (0-255 for both luma and chroma)
--colormatrix-output-range=<color-range>
RGB color levels used with YUV to RGB conversion. Normally, output devices such as PC monitors use
full range color levels. However, some TVs and video monitors expect studio level RGB. Providing
full range output to a device expecting studio level input results in crushed blacks and whites,
the reverse in dim grey blacks and dim whites.
The same limitations as with --colormatrix apply.
Available color ranges are:
auto automatic selection (equals to full range) (default)
limited
limited range (16-235 per component), studio levels
full full range (0-255 per component), PC levels
--consolecontrols, --no-consolecontrols
--no-consolecontrols prevents the player from reading key events from standard input. Useful when
reading data from standard input. This is automatically enabled when - is found on the command
line. There are situations where you have to set it manually, e.g. if you open /dev/stdin (or the
equivalent on your system), use stdin in a playlist or intend to read from stdin later on via the
loadfile or loadlist slave commands.
--contrast=<-100-100>
Adjust the contrast of the video signal (default: 0). Not supported by all video output drivers.
--cookies, --no-cookies
(network only) Support cookies when making HTTP requests. Disabled by default.
--cookies-file=<filename>
(network only) Read HTTP cookies from <filename> (default: ~/.mozilla/ and ~/.netscape/) and skip
reading from default locations. The file is assumed to be in Netscape format.
--correct-pts, --no-correct-pts
Switches MPlayer to a mode where timestamps for video frames are calculated differently and video
filters which add new frames or modify timestamps of existing ones are supported. Now enabled
automatically for most common file formats. The more accurate timestamps can be visible for
example when playing subtitles timed to scene changes with the --ass option. Without --correct-pts
the subtitle timing will typically be off by some frames. This option does not work correctly with
some demuxers and codecs.
--crash-debug
DEBUG CODE. Automatically attaches gdb upon crash or SIGTRAP. Support must be compiled in by
configuring with --enable-crash-debug.
--cursor-autohide-delay=<number>
Make mouse cursor automatically hide after given number of milliseconds. A value of -1 will
disable cursor autohide. A value of -2 means the cursor will stay hidden. Supported by video
output drivers which use X11 or OS X Cocoa.
--delay=<sec>
audio delay in seconds (positive or negative float value). Negative values delay the audio, and
positive values delay the video.
--demuxer=<[+]name>
Force demuxer type. Use a '+' before the name to force it, this will skip some checks! Give the
demuxer name as printed by --demuxer=help.
--display=<name>
(X11 only) Specify the hostname and display number of the X server you want to display on.
EXAMPLE:
--display=xtest.localdomain:0
--double, --no-double
Double buffering. The option to disable this exists mostly for debugging purposes and should not
normally be used.
--doubleclick-time
Time in milliseconds to recognize two consecutive button presses as a double-click (default: 300).
Set to 0 to let your windowing system decide what a double-click is (--vo=directx only).
--dr Turns on direct rendering (not supported by all codecs and video outputs)
WARNING: May cause OSD/SUB corruption!
--dumpaudio
Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with MPEG/AC-3, in most other cases the
resulting file will not be playable). If you give more than one of --dumpaudio, --dumpvideo,
--dumpstream on the command line only the last one will work.
--dumpfile=<filename>
Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together with --dumpaudio / --dumpvideo
/ --dumpstream / --capture.
--dumpjacosub
Convert the given subtitle (specified with the --sub option) to the time-based JACOsub subtitle
format. Creates a dumpsub.js file in the current directory.
--dumpmicrodvdsub
Convert the given subtitle (specified with the --sub option) to the MicroDVD subtitle format.
Creates a dumpsub.sub file in the current directory.
--dumpmpsub
Convert the given subtitle (specified with the --sub option) to MPlayer's subtitle format, MPsub.
Creates a dump.mpsub file in the current directory.
--dumpsami
Convert the given subtitle (specified with the --sub option) to the time-based SAMI subtitle
format. Creates a dumpsub.smi file in the current directory.
--dumpsrtsub
Convert the given subtitle (specified with the --sub option) to the time-based SubViewer (SRT)
subtitle format. Creates a dumpsub.srt file in the current directory.
NOTE: Some broken hardware players choke on SRT subtitle files with Unix line endings. If you are
unlucky enough to have such a box, pass your subtitle files through unix2dos or a similar program
to replace Unix line endings with DOS/Windows line endings.
--dumpstream
Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump. Useful when ripping from DVD or network. If you give more
than one of --dumpaudio, --dumpvideo, --dumpstream on the command line only the last one will
work.
--dumpsub
BETA CODE. Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams. Also see the --dump*sub options.
--dumpvideo
Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable). If you give more than one of
--dumpaudio, --dumpvideo, --dumpstream on the command line only the last one will work.
--dvbin=<options>
Pass the following parameters to the DVB input module, in order to override the default ones:
card=<1-4>
Specifies using card number 1-4 (default: 1).
file=<filename>
Instructs MPlayer to read the channels list from <filename>. Default is
~/.mplayer/channels.conf.{sat,ter,cbl,atsc} (based on your card type) or
~/.mplayer/channels.conf as a last resort.
timeout=<1-30>
Maximum number of seconds to wait when trying to tune a frequency before giving up
(default: 30).
--dvd-device=<path>
Specify the DVD device or .iso filename (default: /dev/dvd). You can also specify a directory that
contains files previously copied directly from a DVD (with e.g. vobcopy).
--dvd-speed=<speed>
Try to limit DVD speed (default: 0, no change). DVD base speed is 1385 kB/s, so a 8x drive can
read at speeds up to 11080 kB/s. Slower speeds make the drive more quiet. For watching DVDs 2700
kB/s should be quiet and fast enough. MPlayer resets the speed to the drive default value on
close. Values of at least 100 mean speed in kB/s. Values less than 100 mean multiples of 1385
kB/s, i.e. --dvd-speed=8 selects 11080 kB/s.
NOTE: You need write access to the DVD device to change the speed.
--dvdangle=<ID>
Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles. Here you can tell MPlayer
which angles to use (default: 1).
--edition=<ID>
(Matroska files only) Specify the edition (set of chapters) to use, where 0 is the first. If set
to -1 (the default), MPlayer will choose the first edition declared as a default, or if there is
no default, the first edition defined.
--edlout=<filename>
Creates a new file and writes edit decision list (EDL) records to it. During playback, the user
hits 'i' to mark the start or end of a skip block. This provides a starting point from which the
user can fine-tune EDL entries later. See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html for
details.
--embeddedfonts, --no-embeddedfonts
Use fonts embedded in Matroska container files and ASS scripts (default: enabled). These fonts can
be used for SSA/ASS subtitle rendering (--ass option).
--endpos=<[[hh:]mm:]ss[.ms]>
Stop at given time.
NOTE: When used in conjunction with --ss option, --endpos time will shift forward by seconds
specified with --ss.
EXAMPLE:
--endpos=56
Stop at 56 seconds.
--endpos=01:10:00
Stop at 1 hour 10 minutes.
--ss=10 --endpos=56
Stop at 1 minute 6 seconds.
--extbased, --no-extbased
Enabled by default. Disables extension-based demuxer selection. By default, when the file type
(demuxer) cannot be detected reliably (the file has no header or it is not reliable enough), the
filename extension is used to select the demuxer. Always falls back on content-based demuxer
selection.
--ffactor=<number>
Resample the font alphamap. Can be:
0 plain white fonts
0.75 very narrow black outline (default)
1 narrow black outline
10 bold black outline
--field-dominance=<-1-1>
Set first field for interlaced content. Useful for deinterlacers that double the framerate:
--vf=tfields=1, --vf=yadif=1 and --vo=vdpau:deint.
-1 auto (default): If the decoder does not export the appropriate information, it falls back
to 0 (top field first).
0 top field first
1 bottom field first
--fixed-vo, --no-fixed-vo
--fixed-vo enforces a fixed video system for multiple files (one (un)initialization for all
files). Therefore only one window will be opened for all files. Now enabled by default, use
--no-fixed-vo to disable and create a new window whenever the video stream changes. Some of the
older drivers may not be fixed-vo compliant.
--flip Flip image upside-down.
--font=<pattern-or-filename>
Specify font to use for OSD and for subtitles that do not themselves specify a particular font.
See also --subfont. The argument is a fontconfig pattern and the default is sans.
EXAMPLE:
• --font='Bitstream Vera Sans'
• --font='Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Bold'
--force-window-position
Forcefully move MPlayer's video output window to default location whenever there is a change in
video parameters, video stream or file. This used to be the default behavior. Currently only
affects X11 VOs.
--forcedsubsonly
Display only forced subtitles for the DVD subtitle stream selected by e.g. --slang.
--forceidx
Force index rebuilding. Useful for files with broken index (A/V desync, etc). This will enable
seeking in files where seeking was not possible.
NOTE: This option only works if the underlying media supports seeking (i.e. not with stdin, pipe,
etc).
--format=<format>
Select the sample format used for output from the audio filter layer to the sound card. The values
that <format> can adopt are listed below in the description of the format audio filter.
--fps=<float>
Override video framerate. Useful if the original value is wrong or missing.
--framedrop
Skip displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems. Video filters are not applied to
such frames. For B-frames even decoding is skipped completely. May produce unwatchably choppy
output. See also --hardframedrop.
--frames=<number>
Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
--fs Fullscreen playback (centers movie, and paints black bands around it).
--fsmode-dontuse=<0-31>
OBSOLETE, use the --fs option. Try this option if you still experience fullscreen problems.
--fstype=<type1,type2,...>
(X11 only) Specify a priority list of fullscreen modes to be used. You can negate the modes by
prefixing them with '-'. If you experience problems like the fullscreen window being covered by
other windows try using a different order.
NOTE: See --fstype=help for a full list of available modes.
The available types are:
above Use the _NETWM_STATE_ABOVE hint if available.
below Use the _NETWM_STATE_BELOW hint if available.
fullscreen
Use the _NETWM_STATE_FULLSCREEN hint if available.
layer Use the _WIN_LAYER hint with the default layer.
layer=<0...15>
Use the _WIN_LAYER hint with the given layer number.
netwm Force NETWM style.
none Clear the list of modes; you can add modes to enable afterward.
stays_on_top
Use _NETWM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP hint if available.
EXAMPLE:
--fstype=layer,stays_on_top,above,fullscreen
Default order, will be used as a fallback if incorrect or unsupported modes are specified.
--fstype=fullscreen
Fixes fullscreen switching on OpenBox 1.x.
--gamma=<-100-100>
Adjust the gamma of the video signal (default: 0). Not supported by all video output drivers.
--gapless-audio
Try to play consecutive audio files with no silence or disruption at the point of file change.
This feature is implemented in a simple manner and relies on audio output device buffering to
continue playback while moving from one file to another. If playback of the new file starts
slowly, for example because it's played from a remote network location or because you have
specified cache settings that require time for the initial cache fill, then the buffered audio may
run out before playback of the new file can start.
NOTE: The audio device is opened using parameters chosen according to the first file played and is
then kept open for gapless playback. This means that if the first file for example has a low
samplerate then the following files may get resampled to the same low samplerate, resulting in
reduced sound quality. If you play files with different parameters, consider using options such as
--srate and --format to explicitly select what the shared output format will be.
--geometry=<x[%][:y[%]]>, --geometry=<[WxH][+-x+-y]>
Adjust where the output is on the screen initially. The x and y specifications are in pixels
measured from the top-left of the screen to the top-left of the image being displayed, however if
a percentage sign is given after the argument it turns the value into a percentage of the screen
size in that direction. It also supports the standard X11 --geometry option format, in which e.g.
+10-50 means "place 10 pixels from the left border and 50 pixels from the lower border" and
"--20+-10" means "place 20 pixels beyond the right and 10 pixels beyond the top border". If an
external window is specified using the --wid option, then the x and y coordinates are relative to
the top-left corner of the window rather than the screen. The coordinates are relative to the
screen given with --xineramascreen for the video output drivers that fully support
--xineramascreen (direct3d, gl, vdpau, x11, xv, corevideo).
NOTE: May not be supported by some of the older VO drivers.
NOTE (OSX): On Mac OSX the origin of the screen coordinate system is located at the the
bottom-left corner. For instance, 0:0 will place the window at the bottom-left of the screen.
EXAMPLE:
50:40 Places the window at x=50, y=40.
50%:50%
Places the window in the middle of the screen.
100% Places the window at the middle of the right edge of the screen.
100%:100%
Places the window at the bottom right corner of the screen.
--grabpointer, --no-grabpointer
--no-grabpointer tells the player to not grab the mouse pointer after a video mode change (--vm).
Useful for multihead setups.
--hardframedrop
More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image distortion!
--heartbeat-cmd
Command that is executed every 30 seconds during playback via system() - i.e. using the shell.
NOTE: mplayer uses this command without any checking, it is your responsibility to ensure it does
not cause security problems (e.g. make sure to use full paths if "." is in your path like on
Windows). It also only works when playing video (i.e. not with --novideo but works with -vo=null).
This can be "misused" to disable screensavers that do not support the proper X API (see also
--stop-xscreensaver). If you think this is too complicated, ask the author of the screensaver
program to support the proper X APIs.
EXAMPLE for xscreensaver: mplayer --heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate" file
EXAMPLE for GNOME screensaver: mplayer --heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p" file
--help Show short summary of options and key bindings.
--hr-mp3-seek
Only affects the internal audio demuxer, which is not used by default for mp3 files any more. The
equivalent functionality is always enabled with the now default libavformat demuxer for mp3.
Hi-res MP3 seeking. Enabled when playing from an external MP3 file, as we need to seek to the
very exact position to keep A/V sync. Can be slow especially when seeking backwards since it has
to rewind to the beginning to find an exact frame position.
--hr-seek=<off|absolute|always>
Select when to use precise seeks that are not limited to keyframes. Such seeks require decoding
video from the previous keyframe up to the target position and so can take some time depending on
decoding performance. For some video formats precise seeks are disabled. This option selects the
default choice to use for seeks; it's possible to explicitly override that default in the
definition of key bindings and in slave mode commands.
off Never use precise seeks.
absolute
Use precise seeks if the seek is to an absolute position in the file, such as a chapter
seek, but not for relative seeks like the default behavior of arrow keys (default).
always Use precise seeks whenever possible.
--hr-seek-demuxer-offset=<seconds>
This option exists to work around failures to do precise seeks (as in --hr-seek) caused by bugs or
limitations in the demuxers for some file formats. Some demuxers fail to seek to a keyframe before
the given target position, going to a later position instead. The value of this option is
subtracted from the time stamp given to the demuxer. Thus if you set this option to 1.5 and try to
do a precise seek to 60 seconds, the demuxer is told to seek to time 58.5, which hopefully reduces
the chance that it erroneously goes to some time later than 60 seconds. The downside of setting
this option is that precise seeks become slower, as video between the earlier demuxer position and
the real target may be unnecessarily decoded.
--http-header-fields=<field1,field2>
Set custom HTTP fields when accessing HTTP stream.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --http-header-fields='Field1: value1','Field2: value2' http://localhost:1234
Will generate HTTP request:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost:1234
User-Agent: MPlayer
Icy-MetaData: 1
Field1: value1
Field2: value2
Connection: close
--hue=<-100-100>
Adjust the hue of the video signal (default: 0). You can get a colored negative of the image with
this option. Not supported by all video output drivers.
--identify
Shorthand for --msglevel=identify=4. Show file parameters in an easily parseable format. Also
prints more detailed information about subtitle and audio track languages and IDs. In some cases
you can get more information by using --msglevel=identify=6. For example, for a DVD or Blu-ray it
will list the chapters and time length of each title, as well as a disk ID. Combine this with
--frames=0 to suppress all video output. The wrapper script TOOLS/midentify.sh suppresses the
other MPlayer output and (hopefully) shellescapes the filenames.
--idle Makes MPlayer wait idly instead of quitting when there is no file to play. Mostly useful in slave
mode where MPlayer can be controlled through input commands (see also --slave).
--idx Rebuilds index of files if no index was found, allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incomplete
downloads, or badly created files. Now this is done automatically by the demuxers used for most
video formats, meaning that this switch has no effect in the typical case. See also --forceidx.
NOTE: This option only works if the underlying media supports seeking (i.e. not with stdin, pipe,
etc).
--ifo=<file>
Indicate the VOBsub IFO file that will be used to load palette and frame size for VOBsub
subtitles.
--ignore-start
Ignore the specified starting time for streams in AVI files. This nullifies stream delays.
--include=<configuration-file>
Specify configuration file to be parsed after the default ones.
--initial-audio-sync, --no-initial-audio-sync
When starting a video file or after events such as seeking MPlayer will by default modify the
audio stream to make it start from the same timestamp as video, by either inserting silence at the
start or cutting away the first samples. Disabling this option makes the player behave like older
MPlayer versions did: video and audio are both started immediately even if their start timestamps
differ, and then video timing is gradually adjusted if necessary to reach correct synchronization
later.
--input=<commands>
This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system.
NOTE: Autorepeat is currently only supported by joysticks.
Available commands are:
conf=<filename>
Specify input configuration file other than the default ~/.mplayer/input.conf.
~/.mplayer/<filename> is assumed if no full path is given.
ar-dev=<device>
Device to be used for Apple IR Remote (default is autodetected, Linux only).
ar-delay
Delay in milliseconds before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable).
ar-rate
Number of key presses to generate per second on autorepeat.
(no)default-bindings
Use the key bindings that MPlayer ships with by default.
keylist
Prints all keys that can be bound to commands.
cmdlist
Prints all commands that can be bound to keys.
js-dev Specifies the joystick device to use (default: /dev/input/js0).
file=<filename>
Read commands from the given file. Mostly useful with a FIFO. See also --slave.
NOTE: When the given file is a FIFO MPlayer opens both ends so you can do several echo
"seek 10" > mp_pipe and the pipe will stay valid.
--ipv4-only-proxy
Skip any HTTP proxy for IPv6 addresses. It will still be used for IPv4 connections.
--joystick, --no-joystick
Enable/disable joystick support. Enabled by default.
--keepaspect, --no-keepaspect
Keep window aspect ratio when resizing windows. Enabled by default. By default MPlayer tries to
keep the correct video aspect ratio by instructing the window manager to maintain window aspect
when resizing, and by adding black bars if the window manager nevertheless allows window shape to
change. --no-keepaspect disables window manager aspect hints and scales the video to completely
fill the window without regard for aspect ratio.
--key-fifo-size=<2-65000>
Specify the size of the FIFO that buffers key events (default: 7). If it is too small some events
may be lost. The main disadvantage of setting it to a very large value is that if you hold down a
key triggering some particularly slow command then the player may be unresponsive while it
processes all the queued commands.
--lavdopts=<option1:option2:...>
Specify libavcodec decoding parameters. Separate multiple options with a colon.
EXAMPLE: --lavdopts=gray:skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref
Available options are:
bitexact
Only use bit-exact algorithms in all decoding steps (for codec testing).
bug=<value>
Manually work around encoder bugs.
0 nothing
1 autodetect bugs (default)
2 (msmpeg4v3): some old lavc generated msmpeg4v3 files (no autodetection)
4 (mpeg4): Xvid interlacing bug (autodetected if fourcc==XVIX)
8 (mpeg4): UMP4 (autodetected if fourcc==UMP4)
16 (mpeg4): padding bug (autodetected)
32 (mpeg4): illegal vlc bug (autodetected per fourcc)
64 (mpeg4): Xvid and DivX qpel bug (autodetected per fourcc/version)
128 (mpeg4): old standard qpel (autodetected per fourcc/version)
256 (mpeg4): another qpel bug (autodetected per fourcc/version)
512 (mpeg4): direct-qpel-blocksize bug (autodetected per fourcc/version)
1024 (mpeg4): edge padding bug (autodetected per fourcc/version)
debug=<value>
Display debugging information.
0 disabled
1 picture info
2 rate control
4 bitstream
8 macroblock (MB) type
16 per-block quantization parameter (QP)
32 motion vector
0x0040 motion vector visualization (use --no-slices)
0x0080 macroblock (MB) skip
0x0100 startcode
0x0200 PTS
0x0400 error resilience
0x0800 memory management control operations (H.264)
0x1000 bugs
0x2000 Visualize quantization parameter (QP), lower QP are tinted greener.
0x4000 Visualize block types.
ec=<value>
Set error concealment strategy.
1 Use strong deblock filter for damaged MBs.
2 iterative motion vector (MV) search (slow)
3 all (default)
fast (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 only)
Enable optimizations which do not comply to the specification and might potentially cause
problems, like simpler dequantization, simpler motion compensation, assuming use of the
default quantization matrix, assuming YUV 4:2:0 and skipping a few checks to detect damaged
bitstreams.
gray grayscale only decoding (a bit faster than with color)
idct=<0-99>
For best decoding quality use the same IDCT algorithm for decoding and encoding. This may
come at a price in accuracy, though.
lowres=<number>[,<w>]
Decode at lower resolutions. Low resolution decoding is not supported by all codecs, and it
will often result in ugly artifacts. This is not a bug, but a side effect of not decoding
at full resolution.
0 disabled
1 1/2 resolution
2 1/4 resolution
3 1/8 resolution
If <w> is specified lowres decoding will be used only if the width of the video is major
than or equal to <w>.
o=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]
Pass AVOptions to libavcodec decoder. Note, a patch to make the o= unneeded and pass all
unknown options through the AVOption system is welcome. A full list of AVOptions can be
found in the FFmpeg manual.
EXAMPLE: o=debug=pict
sb=<number> (MPEG-2 only)
Skip the given number of macroblock rows at the bottom.
st=<number> (MPEG-2 only)
Skip the given number of macroblock rows at the top.
skiploopfilter=<skipvalue> (H.264 only)
Skips the loop filter (AKA deblocking) during H.264 decoding. Since the filtered frame is
supposed to be used as reference for decoding dependent frames this has a worse effect on
quality than not doing deblocking on e.g. MPEG-2 video. But at least for high bitrate HDTV
this provides a big speedup with no visible quality loss.
<skipvalue> can be one of the following:
none Never skip.
default
Skip useless processing steps (e.g. 0 size packets in AVI).
nonref Skip frames that are not referenced (i.e. not used for decoding other frames, the
error cannot "build up").
bidir Skip B-Frames.
nonkey Skip all frames except keyframes.
all Skip all frames.
skipidct=<skipvalue> (MPEG-1/2 only)
Skips the IDCT step. This degrades quality a lot of in almost all cases (see skiploopfilter
for available skip values).
skipframe=<skipvalue>
Skips decoding of frames completely. Big speedup, but jerky motion and sometimes bad
artifacts (see skiploopfilter for available skip values).
threads=<0-16>
Number of threads to use for decoding. Whether threading is actually supported depends on
codec. 0 means autodetect number of cores on the machine and use that, up to the maximum of
16. (default: 0)
vismv=<value>
Visualize motion vectors.
0 disabled
1 Visualize forward predicted MVs of P-frames.
2 Visualize forward predicted MVs of B-frames.
4 Visualize backward predicted MVs of B-frames.
vstats Prints some statistics and stores them in ./vstats_*.log.
--lavfdopts=<option1:option2:...>
Specify parameters for libavformat demuxers (--demuxer=lavf). Separate multiple options with a
colon.
Available suboptions are:
analyzeduration=<value>
Maximum length in seconds to analyze the stream properties.
format=<value>
Force a specific libavformat demuxer.
o=<key>=<value>[,<key>=<value>[,...]]
Pass AVOptions to libavformat demuxer.
Note, a patch to make the o= unneeded and pass all unknown options through the AVOption
system is welcome. A full list of AVOptions can be found in the FFmpeg manual. Note that
some options may conflict with MPlayer options.
EXAMPLE: o=fflags=+ignidx
probesize=<value>
Maximum amount of data to probe during the detection phase. In the case of MPEG-TS this
value identifies the maximum number of TS packets to scan.
cryptokey=<hexstring>
Encryption key the demuxer should use. This is the raw binary data of the key converted to
a hexadecimal string.
--lirc, --no-lirc
Enable/disable LIRC support. Enabled by default.
--lircconf=<filename>
(LIRC only) Specifies a configuration file for LIRC (default: ~/.lircrc).
--list-options
Prints all available options.
--list-properties
Print a list of the available properties.
--loadidx=<filename>
The file from which to read the video index data saved by --saveidx. This index will be used for
seeking, overriding any index data contained in the AVI itself. MPlayer will not prevent you from
loading an index file generated from a different AVI, but this is sure to cause unfavorable
results.
NOTE: This option is obsolete now that MPlayer has OpenDML support.
--loop=<number>
Loops movie playback <number> times. 0 means forever.
--mc=<seconds/frame>
Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds)
--mf=<option1:option2:...>
Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files.
Available options are:
w=<value>
input file width (default: autodetect)
h=<value>
input file height (default: autodetect)
fps=<value>
output fps (default: 25)
type=<value>
input file type (available: jpeg, png, tga, sgi)
--mixer=<device>
Use a mixer device different from the default /dev/mixer. For ALSA this is the mixer name.
--mixer-channel=<name[,index]>
(--ao=oss and --ao=alsa only) This option will tell MPlayer to use a different channel for
controlling volume than the default PCM. Options for OSS include vol, pcm, line. For a complete
list of options look for SOUND_DEVICE_NAMES in /usr/include/linux/soundcard.h. For ALSA you can
use the names e.g. alsamixer displays, like Master, Line, PCM.
NOTE: ALSA mixer channel names followed by a number must be specified in the <name,number> format,
i.e. a channel labeled 'PCM 1' in alsamixer must be converted to PCM,1.
--monitoraspect=<ratio>
Set the aspect ratio of your monitor or TV screen. A value of 0 disables a previous setting (e.g.
in the config file). Overrides the --monitorpixelaspect setting if enabled. See also
--monitorpixelaspect and --aspect.
EXAMPLE:
• --monitoraspect=4:3 or --monitoraspect=1.3333
• --monitoraspect=16:9 or --monitoraspect=1.7777
--monitorpixelaspect=<ratio>
Set the aspect of a single pixel of your monitor or TV screen (default: 1). A value of 1 means
square pixels (correct for (almost?) all LCDs). See also --monitoraspect and --aspect.
--mouse-movements
Permit MPlayer to receive pointer events reported by the video output driver. Necessary to select
the buttons in DVD menus. Supported for X11-based VOs (x11, xv, etc) and the gl, direct3d and
corevideo VOs.
--mouseinput, --no-mouseinput
Enabled by default. Disable mouse button press/release input (mozplayerxp's context menu relies on
this option).
--msgcharset=<charset>
Convert console messages to the specified character set (default: autodetect). Text will be in the
encoding specified with the --charset configure option. Set this to "noconv" to disable conversion
(for e.g. iconv problems).
NOTE: The option takes effect after command line parsing has finished. The MPLAYER_CHARSET
environment variable can help you get rid of the first lines of garbled output.
--msgcolor
Enable colorful console output on terminals that support ANSI color.
--msglevel=<module1=level1:module2=level2:...>
Control verbosity directly for each module. The all module changes the verbosity of all the
modules not explicitly specified on the command line.
See --msglevel=help for a list of all modules.
NOTE: Some messages are printed before the command line is parsed and are therefore not affected
by --msglevel. To control these messages you have to use the MPLAYER_VERBOSE environment variable;
see its description below for details.
Available levels:
-1 complete silence
0 fatal messages only
1 error messages
2 warning messages
3 short hints
4 informational messages
5 status messages (default)
6 verbose messages
7 debug level 2
8 debug level 3
9 debug level 4
--msgmodule
Prepend module name in front of each console message.
--name Set the window class name for X11-based video output methods.
--ni (Internal AVI demuxer which is not used by default only) Force usage of non-interleaved AVI parser
(fixes playback of some bad AVI files).
--noaspect
Ignore aspect ratio information from video file and assume the video has square pixels. See also
--aspect.
--nobps
(Internal AVI demuxer which is not used by default only) Do not use average byte/second value for
A-V sync. Helps with some AVI files with broken header.
--nocache
Turn off input stream caching. See --cache.
--nocolorkey
Disables colorkeying. Only supported by the xv (see --vo=xv:ck) and directx video output drivers.
--noconfig=<options>
Do not parse selected configuration files.
NOTE: If --include or --use-filedir-conf options are specified at the command line, they will be
honoured.
Available options are:
all all configuration files
system system configuration file
user user configuration file
--noidx
Do not use index present in the file even if one is present.
--nosound
Do not play sound. Useful for benchmarking.
--nosub
Disables any otherwise auto-selected internal subtitles (as e.g. the Matroska/mkv demuxer
supports). Use --no-autosub to disable the loading of external subtitle files.
--novideo
Do not play video. With some demuxers this may not work. In those cases you can try --vc=null
--vo=null instead; but --vc=null is always unreliable.
--ontop
Makes the player window stay on top of other windows. Supported by video output drivers which use
X11, except SDL, as well as directx and corevideo.
--ordered-chapters, --no-ordered-chapters
Enabled by default. Disable support for Matroska ordered chapters. MPlayer will not load or
search for video segments from other files, and will also ignore any chapter order specified for
the main file.
--osd-duration=<time>
Set the duration of the OSD messages in ms (default: 1000).
--osd-fractions=<0-2>
Set how fractions of seconds of the current timestamp are printed on the OSD:
0 Do not display fractions (default).
1 Show the first two decimals.
2 Show approximate frame count within current second. This frame count is not accurate but
only an approximation. For variable fps, the approximation is known to be far off the
correct frame count.
--osdlevel=<0-3>
Specifies which mode the OSD should start in.
0 subtitles only
1 volume + seek (default)
2 volume + seek + timer + percentage
3 volume + seek + timer + percentage + total time
--overlapsub
Allows the next subtitle to be displayed while the current one is still visible (default is to
enable the support only for specific formats).
--panscan=<0.0-1.0>
Enables pan-and-scan functionality (cropping the sides of e.g. a 16:9 movie to make it fit a 4:3
display without black bands). The range controls how much of the image is cropped. May not work
with all video output drivers.
NOTE: Values between -1 and 0 are allowed as well, but highly experimental and may crash or worse.
Use at your own risk!
--panscanrange=<-19.0-99.0>
(experimental) Change the range of the pan-and-scan functionality (default: 1). Positive values
mean multiples of the default range. Negative numbers mean you can zoom in up to a factor of
--panscanrange=+1. E.g. --panscanrange=-3 allows a zoom factor of up to 4. This feature is
experimental. Do not report bugs unless you are using --vo=gl.
--passwd=<password>
Used with some network protocols. Specify password for HTTP authentication. See also --user.
--playing-msg=<string>
Print out a string before starting playback. The following expansions are supported:
${NAME}
Expand to the value of the property NAME.
?(NAME:TEXT)
Expand TEXT only if the property NAME is available.
?(!NAME:TEXT)
Expand TEXT only if the property NAME is not available.
--playlist=<filename>
Play files according to a playlist file (ASX, Winamp, SMIL, or one-file-per-line format).
WARNING: The way MPlayer parses and uses playlist files is not safe against maliciously
constructed files. Such files may trigger harmful actions. This has been the case for all MPlayer
versions, but unfortunately this fact was not well documented earlier, and some people have even
misguidedly recommended use of --playlist with untrusted sources. Do NOT use --playlist with
random internet sources or files you don't trust!
NOTE: This option is considered an entry so options found after it will apply only to the elements
of this playlist.
FIXME: This needs to be clarified and documented thoroughly.
--pp=<quality>
This option only works when decoding video with Win32 DirectShow DLLs with internal postprocessing
routines. See also --vf=pp. Set the DLL postprocess level. The valid range of --pp values varies
by codec, it is mostly 0-6, where 0=disable, 6=slowest/best.
--pphelp
Show a summary about the available postprocess filters and their usage. See also --vf=pp.
--prefer-ipv4
Use IPv4 on network connections. Falls back on IPv6 automatically.
--prefer-ipv6
Use IPv6 on network connections. Falls back on IPv4 automatically.
--priority=<prio>
(Windows only.) Set process priority for MPlayer according to the predefined priorities available
under Windows.
Possible values of <prio>: idle|belownormal|normal|abovenormal|high|realtime
WARNING: Using realtime priority can cause system lockup.
--profile=<profile1,profile2,...>
Use the given profile(s), --profile=help displays a list of the defined profiles.
--psprobe=<bytecount>
When playing an MPEG-PS or MPEG-PES streams, this option lets you specify how many bytes in the
stream you want MPlayer to scan in order to identify the video codec used. This option is needed
to play EVO or VDR files containing H.264 streams.
--pts-association-mode=<auto|decode|sort>
Select the method used to determine which container packet timestamp corresponds to a particular
output frame from the video decoder. Normally you shouldn't need to change this option.
auto Try to pick a working mode from the ones below automatically (default)
decoder
Use decoder reordering functionality.
sort Maintain a buffer of unused pts values and use the lowest value for the frame.
--pvr=<option1:option2:...>
This option tunes various encoding properties of the PVR capture module. It has to be used with
any hardware MPEG encoder based card supported by the V4L2 driver. The Hauppauge WinTV
PVR-150/250/350/500 and all IVTV based cards are known as PVR capture cards. Be aware that only
Linux 2.6.18 kernel and above is able to handle MPEG stream through V4L2 layer. For hardware
capture of an MPEG stream and watching it with MPlayer, use pvr:// as a movie URL.
Available options are:
aspect=<0-3>
Specify input aspect ratio:
0 1:1
1 4:3 (default)
2 16:9
3 2.21:1
arate=<32000-48000>
Specify encoding audio rate (default: 48000 Hz, available: 32000, 44100 and 48000 Hz).
alayer=<1-3>
Specify MPEG audio layer encoding (default: 2).
abitrate=<32-448>
Specify audio encoding bitrate in kbps (default: 384).
amode=<value>
Specify audio encoding mode. Available preset values are 'stereo', 'joint_stereo', 'dual'
and 'mono' (default: stereo).
vbitrate=<value>
Specify average video bitrate encoding in Mbps (default: 6).
vmode=<value>
Specify video encoding mode:
vbr Variable BitRate (default)
cbr Constant BitRate
vpeak=<value>
Specify peak video bitrate encoding in Mbps (only useful for VBR encoding, default: 9.6).
fmt=<value>
Choose an MPEG format for encoding:
ps MPEG-2 Program Stream (default)
ts MPEG-2 Transport Stream
mpeg1 MPEG-1 System Stream
vcd Video CD compatible stream
svcd Super Video CD compatible stream
dvd DVD compatible stream
--quiet
Make console output less verbose; in particular, prevents the status line (i.e. A: 0.7 V: 0.6 A-V:
0.068 ...) from being displayed. Particularly useful on slow terminals or broken ones which do not
properly handle carriage return (i.e. \r).
--quvi-format=<format>
When mplayer2 is given a video streaming site URL to play, and libquvi is used to translate that
into the address of the actual video file, this option affects which video format is chosen in
case there are several alternatives for the original URL. The value is passed directly to libquvi.
Available values depend on the site and video. According to libquvi documentation, the only values
that are guaranteed to be available are "default" (usually lowest quality) and "best". Defaults to
"best".
--radio=<option1:option2:...>
These options set various parameters of the radio capture module. For listening to radio with
MPlayer use radio://<frequency> (if channels option is not given) or radio://<channel_number> (if
channels option is given) as a movie URL. You can see allowed frequency range by running MPlayer
with -v. To start the grabbing subsystem, use radio://<frequency or channel>/capture. If the
capture keyword is not given you can listen to radio using the line-in cable only. Using capture
to listen is not recommended due to synchronization problems, which makes this process
uncomfortable.
Available options are:
device=<value>
Radio device to use (default: /dev/radio0 for Linux and /dev/tuner0 for *BSD).
driver=<value>
Radio driver to use (default: v4l2 if available, otherwise v4l). Currently, v4l and v4l2
drivers are supported.
volume=<0..100>
sound volume for radio device (default 100)
freq_min=<value> (*BSD BT848 only)
minimum allowed frequency (default: 87.50)
freq_max=<value> (*BSD BT848 only)
maximum allowed frequency (default: 108.00)
channels=<frequency>-<name>,<frequency>-<name>,...
Set channel list. Use _ for spaces in names (or play with quoting ;-). The channel names
will then be written using OSD and the slave commands radio_step_channel and
radio_set_channel will be usable for a remote control (see LIRC). If given, number in movie
URL will be treated as channel position in channel list.
EXAMPLE: radio://1, radio://104.4, radio_set_channel 1
adevice=<value> (radio capture only)
Name of device to capture sound from. Without such a name capture will be disabled, even if
the capture keyword appears in the URL. For ALSA devices use it in the form
hw=<card>.<device>. If the device name contains a '=', the module will use ALSA to capture,
otherwise OSS.
arate=<value> (radio capture only)
Rate in samples per second (default: 44100).
NOTE: When using audio capture set also --rawaudio=rate=<value> option with the same value
as arate. If you have problems with sound speed (runs too quickly), try to play with
different rate values (e.g. 48000, 44100, 32000,...).
achannels=<value> (radio capture only)
Number of audio channels to capture.
--rawaudio=<option1:option2:...>
This option lets you play raw audio files. You have to use --demuxer=rawaudio as well. It may also
be used to play audio CDs which are not 44kHz 16-bit stereo. For playing raw AC-3 streams use
--rawaudio=format=0x2000 --demuxer=rawaudio.
Available options are:
channels=<value>
number of channels
rate=<value>
rate in samples per second
samplesize=<value>
sample size in bytes
bitrate=<value>
bitrate for rawaudio files
format=<value>
fourcc in hex
--rawvideo=<option1:option2:...>
This option lets you play raw video files. You have to use --demuxer=rawvideo as well.
Available options are:
fps=<value>
rate in frames per second (default: 25.0)
sqcif|qcif|cif|4cif|pal|ntsc
set standard image size
w=<value>
image width in pixels
h=<value>
image height in pixels
i420|yv12|yuy2|y8
set colorspace
format=<value>
colorspace (fourcc) in hex or string constant. Use --rawvideo=format=help for a list of
possible strings.
size=<value>
frame size in Bytes
EXAMPLE:
• mplayer foreman.qcif --demuxer=rawvideo --rawvideo=qcif Play the famous "foreman" sample video.
• mplayer sample-720x576.yuv --demuxer=rawvideo --rawvideo=w=720:h=576 Play a raw YUV sample.
--really-quiet
Display even less output and status messages than with --quiet.
--referrer=<string>
Specify a referrer path or URL for HTTP requests.
--refreshrate=<Hz>
Set the monitor refreshrate in Hz. Currently only supported by --vo=directx combined with the --vm
option.
--reuse-socket
(udp:// only) Allows a socket to be reused by other processes as soon as it is closed.
--rootwin
Play movie in the root window (desktop background). Desktop background images may cover the movie
window, though. May not work with all video output drivers.
--rtc Turns on usage of the Linux RTC (realtime clock - /dev/rtc) as timing mechanism. This wakes up the
process every 1/1024 seconds to check the current time. Useless with modern Linux kernels
configured for desktop use as they already wake up the process with similar accuracy when using
normal timed sleep.
--rtc-device=<device>
Use the specified device for RTC timing.
--rtsp-destination
Used with rtsp:// URLs to force the destination IP address to be bound. This option may be useful
with some RTSP server which do not send RTP packets to the right interface. If the connection to
the RTSP server fails, use -v to see which IP address MPlayer tries to bind to and try to force it
to one assigned to your computer instead.
--rtsp-port
Used with rtsp:// URLs to force the client's port number. This option may be useful if you are
behind a router and want to forward the RTSP stream from the server to a specific client.
--rtsp-stream-over-http
(LIVE555 only) Used with http:// URLs to specify that the resulting incoming RTP and RTCP packets
be streamed over HTTP.
--rtsp-stream-over-tcp
(LIVE555 and NEMESI only) Used with rtsp:// URLs to specify that the resulting incoming RTP and
RTCP packets be streamed over TCP (using the same TCP connection as RTSP). This option may be
useful if you have a broken internet connection that does not pass incoming UDP packets (see
http://www.live555.com/mplayer/).
--saturation=<-100-100>
Adjust the saturation of the video signal (default: 0). You can get grayscale output with this
option. Not supported by all video output drivers.
--saveidx=<filename>
Force index rebuilding and dump the index to <filename>. Currently this only works with AVI files.
NOTE: This option is obsolete now that MPlayer has OpenDML support.
--sb=<n>
Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CD-ROM images or VOB files with junk at the
beginning. See also --ss.
--screenh=<pixels>
Specify the screen height for video output drivers which do not know the screen resolution like
x11 and TV-out.
--screenw=<pixels>
Specify the screen width for video output drivers which do not know the screen resolution like x11
and TV-out.
--show-profile=<profile>
Show the description and content of a profile.
--shuffle
Play files in random order.
--sid=<ID>
Display the subtitle stream specified by <ID> (0-31). MPlayer prints the available subtitle IDs
when run in verbose (-v) mode. If you cannot select one of the subtitles on a DVD, try --vobsubid.
See also --slang, --vobsubid, --nosub.
--slang=<languagecode[,languagecode,...]>
Specify a priority list of subtitle languages to use. Different container formats employ different
language codes. DVDs use ISO 639-1 two letter language codes, Matroska uses ISO 639-2 three letter
language codes while OGM uses a free-form identifier. MPlayer prints the available languages when
run in verbose (-v) mode. See also --sid.
EXAMPLE:
• mplayer dvd://1 --slang=hu,en chooses the Hungarian subtitle track on a DVD and falls back on
English if Hungarian is not available.
• mplayer --slang=jpn example.mkv plays a Matroska file with Japanese subtitles.
--slave
Switches on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend for other programs. Instead of
intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read commands separated by a newline (n) from stdin.
See also --input, suboption file.
NOTE: See DOCS/tech/slave.txt for a description of slave commands. Also, this is not intended to
disable other inputs, e.g. via the video window. If you want to do that, use something like
--input=nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null.
--slices, --no-slices
Drawing video by 16-pixel height slices/bands, instead draws the whole frame in a single run. May
be faster or slower, depending on video card and available cache. It has effect only with
libavcodec codecs. Enabled by default if applicable; usually disabled when threading is used.
--softsleep
Time frames by repeatedly checking the current time instead of asking the kernel to wake up
MPlayer at the correct time. Useful if your kernel timing is imprecise and you cannot use the RTC
either. Comes at the price of higher CPU consumption.
--softvol
Force the use of the software mixer, instead of using the sound card mixer.
--softvol-max=<10.0-10000.0>
Set the maximum amplification level in percent (default: 110). A value of 200 will allow you to
adjust the volume up to a maximum of double the current level. With values below 100 the initial
volume (which is 100%) will be above the maximum, which e.g. the OSD cannot display correctly.
--speed=<0.01-100>
Slow down or speed up playback by the factor given as parameter.
--spuaa=<mode>
Antialiasing/scaling mode for DVD/VOBsub. A value of 16 may be added to <mode> in order to force
scaling even when original and scaled frame size already match. This can be employed to e.g.
smooth subtitles with gaussian blur. Available modes are:
0 none (fastest, very ugly)
1 approximate (broken?)
2 full (slow)
3 bilinear (default, fast and not too bad)
4 uses swscaler gaussian blur (looks very good)
--spualign=<-1-2>
Specify how SPU (DVD/VOBsub) subtitles should be aligned.
-1 Original position
0 Align at top (original behavior, default).
1 Align at center.
2 Align at bottom.
--spugauss=<0.0-3.0>
Variance parameter of gaussian used by --spuaa=4. Higher means more blur (default: 1.0).
--srate=<Hz>
Select the output sample rate to be used (of course sound cards have limits on this). If the
sample frequency selected is different from that of the current media, the resample or
lavcresample audio filter will be inserted into the audio filter layer to compensate for the
difference. The type of resampling can be controlled by the --af-adv option.
--ss=<time>
Seek to given time position.
EXAMPLE:
--ss=56
Seeks to 56 seconds.
--ss=01:10:00
Seeks to 1 hour 10 min.
--ssf=<mode>
Specifies software scaler parameters.
lgb=<0-100>
gaussian blur filter (luma)
cgb=<0-100>
gaussian blur filter (chroma)
ls=<-100-100>
sharpen filter (luma)
cs=<-100-100>
sharpen filter (chroma)
chs=<h>
chroma horizontal shifting
cvs=<v>
chroma vertical shifting
EXAMPLE: --vf=scale=-ssf=lgb=3.0
--sstep=<sec>
Skip <sec> seconds after every frame. Since MPlayer will only seek to the next keyframe unless you
use --hr-seek this may be inexact.
--stereo=<mode>
Select type of MP2/MP3 stereo output.
0 stereo
1 left channel
2 right channel
--stop-xscreensaver
(X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver
supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreenSaver API please use --heartbeat-cmd instead.
--sub=<subtitlefile1,subtitlefile2,...>
Use/display these subtitle files. Only one file can be displayed at the same time.
--sub-bg-alpha=<0-255>
Specify the alpha channel value for subtitles and OSD backgrounds. Big values mean more
transparency. 0 means completely transparent.
--sub-bg-color=<0-255>
Specify the color value for subtitles and OSD backgrounds. Currently subtitles are grayscale so
this value is equivalent to the intensity of the color. 255 means white and 0 black.
--sub-demuxer=<[+]name>
Force subtitle demuxer type for --subfile. Using a '+' before the name will force it, this will
skip some checks! Give the demuxer name as printed by --sub-demuxer=help.
--sub-fuzziness=<mode>
Adjust matching fuzziness when searching for subtitles:
0 exact match
1 Load all subs containing movie name.
2 Load all subs in the current and --sub-paths directories.
--sub-no-text-pp
Disables any kind of text post processing done after loading the subtitles. Used for debug
purposes.
--sub-paths=<path1:path2:...>
Specify extra directories where to search for subtitles matching the video. Multiple directories
can be separated by ":" (";" on Windows). Paths can be relative or absolute. Relative paths are
interpreted relative to video file directory.
EXAMPLE: Assuming that /path/to/movie/movie.avi is played and --sub-paths=sub:subtitles:/tmp/subs
is specified, MPlayer searches for subtitle files in these directories:
• /path/to/movie/
• /path/to/movie/sub/
• /path/to/movie/subtitles/
• /tmp/subs/
• ~/.mplayer/sub/
--subalign=<0-2>
Specify which edge of the subtitles should be aligned at the height given by --subpos.
0 Align subtitle top edge (original behavior).
1 Align subtitle center.
2 Align subtitle bottom edge (default).
--subcc=<1-4>
Display DVD Closed Caption (CC) subtitles from the specified channel. These are not the VOB
subtitles, these are special ASCII subtitles for the hearing impaired encoded in the VOB userdata
stream on most region 1 DVDs. CC subtitles have not been spotted on DVDs from other regions so
far.
--subcp=<codepage>
If your system supports iconv(3), you can use this option to specify the subtitle codepage.
EXAMPLE: - --subcp=latin2 - --subcp=cp1250
If the player was compiled with ENCA support you can use special syntax to use that.
--subcp=enca:<language>:<fallback codepage>
You can specify your language using a two letter language code to make ENCA detect the codepage
automatically. If unsure, enter anything and watch mplayer -v output for available languages.
Fallback codepage specifies the codepage to use, when autodetection fails.
EXAMPLE:
• --subcp=enca:cs:latin2 guess the encoding, assuming the subtitles are Czech, fall back on latin
2, if the detection fails.
• --subcp=enca:pl:cp1250 guess the encoding for Polish, fall back on cp1250.
--subdelay=<sec>
Delays subtitles by <sec> seconds. Can be negative.
--subfile=<filename>
(BETA CODE) Currently useless. Same as --audiofile, but for subtitle streams (OggDS?).
--subfont=<pattern-or-filename>
Sets the subtitle font (see --font). If no --subfont is given, --font is used for subtitles too.
--subfont-autoscale=<0-3>
Sets the autoscale mode.
NOTE: 0 means that text scale and OSD scale are font heights in points.
The mode can be:
0 no autoscale
1 proportional to movie height
2 proportional to movie width
3 proportional to movie diagonal (default)
--subfont-blur=<0-8>
Sets the font blur radius (default: 2).
--subfont-encoding=<value>
Sets the font encoding. When set to 'unicode', all the glyphs from the font file will be rendered
and unicode will be used (default: unicode).
--subfont-osd-scale=<0-100>
Sets the autoscale coefficient of the OSD elements (default: 4).
--subfont-outline=<0-8>
Sets the font outline thickness (default: 2).
--subfont-text-scale=<0-100>
Sets the subtitle text autoscale coefficient as percentage of the screen size (default: 3.5).
--subfps=<rate>
Specify the framerate of the subtitle file (default: movie fps).
NOTE: <rate> > movie fps speeds the subtitles up for frame-based subtitle files and slows them
down for time-based ones.
--subpos=<0-100>
Specify the position of subtitles on the screen. The value is the vertical position of the
subtitle in % of the screen height. Can be useful with --vf=expand.
--subwidth=<10-100>
Specify the maximum width of subtitles on the screen. Useful for TV-out. The value is the width
of the subtitle in % of the screen width.
--sws=<n>
Specify the software scaler algorithm to be used with the --zoom option. This affects video output
drivers which lack hardware acceleration, e.g. x11. See also --vf=scale and --zoom.
Available types are:
0 fast bilinear
1 bilinear
2 bicubic (good quality) (default)
3 experimental
4 nearest neighbor (bad quality)
5 area
6 luma bicubic / chroma bilinear
7 gauss
8 sincR
9 lanczos
10 natural bicubic spline
NOTE: Some --sws options are tunable. The description of the scale video filter has further
information.
--term-osd, --no-term-osd
Display OSD messages on the console when no video output is available. Enabled by default.
--term-osd-esc=<string>
Specify the escape sequence to use before writing an OSD message on the console. The escape
sequence should move the pointer to the beginning of the line used for the OSD and clear it
(default: ^[[A\r^[[K).
--title
Set the window title. Supported by X11-based video output drivers. See also --use-filename-title.
--tskeepbroken
Tells MPlayer not to discard TS packets reported as broken in the stream. Sometimes needed to
play corrupted MPEG-TS files.
--tsprobe=<bytecount>
When playing an MPEG-TS stream, this option lets you specify how many bytes in the stream you want
MPlayer to search for the desired audio and video IDs.
--tsprog=<1-65534>
When playing an MPEG-TS stream, you can specify with this option which program (if present) you
want to play. Can be used with --vid and --aid.
--tv=<option1:option2:...>
This option tunes various properties of the TV capture module. For watching TV with MPlayer, use
tv:// or tv://<channel_number> or even tv://<channel_name> (see option channels for channel_name
below) as a movie URL. You can also use tv:///<input_id> to start watching a movie from a
composite or S-Video input (see option input for details).
Available options are:
noaudio
no sound
automute=<0-255> (v4l and v4l2 only)
If signal strength reported by device is less than this value, audio and video will be
muted. In most cases automute=100 will be enough. Default is 0 (automute disabled).
driver=<value>
See --tv=driver=help for a list of compiled-in TV input drivers. available: dummy, v4l,
v4l2, bsdbt848 (default: autodetect)
device=<value>
Specify TV device (default: /dev/video0). NOTE: For the bsdbt848 driver you can provide
both bktr and tuner device names separating them with a comma, tuner after bktr (e.g. --tv
device=/dev/bktr1,/dev/tuner1).
input=<value>
Specify input (default: 0 (TV), see console output for available inputs).
freq=<value>
Specify the frequency to set the tuner to (e.g. 511.250). Not compatible with the channels
parameter.
outfmt=<value>
Specify the output format of the tuner with a preset value supported by the V4L driver
(yv12, rgb32, rgb24, rgb16, rgb15, uyvy, yuy2, i420) or an arbitrary format given as hex
value. Try outfmt=help for a list of all available formats.
width=<value>
output window width
height=<value>
output window height
fps=<value>
framerate at which to capture video (frames per second)
buffersize=<value>
maximum size of the capture buffer in megabytes (default: dynamical)
norm=<value>
For bsdbt848 and v4l, PAL, SECAM, NTSC are available. For v4l2, see the console output for
a list of all available norms, also see the normid option below.
normid=<value> (v4l2 only)
Sets the TV norm to the given numeric ID. The TV norm depends on the capture card. See the
console output for a list of available TV norms.
channel=<value>
Set tuner to <value> channel.
chanlist=<value>
available: argentina, australia, china-bcast, europe-east, europe-west, france, ireland,
italy, japan-bcast, japan-cable, newzealand, russia, southafrica, us-bcast, us-cable,
us-cable-hrc
channels=<chan>-<name>[=<norm>],<chan>-<name>[=<norm>],...
Set names for channels.
NOTE: If <chan> is an integer greater than 1000, it will be treated as frequency (in kHz)
rather than channel name from frequency table. Use _ for spaces in names (or play with
quoting ;-). The channel names will then be written using OSD, and the slave commands
tv_step_channel, tv_set_channel and tv_last_channel will be usable for a remote control
(see LIRC). Not compatible with the frequency parameter.
NOTE: The channel number will then be the position in the 'channels' list, beginning with
1.
EXAMPLE: tv://1, tv://TV1, tv_set_channel 1, tv_set_channel TV1
[brightness|contrast|hue|saturation]=<-100-100>
Set the image equalizer on the card.
audiorate=<value>
Set input audio sample rate.
forceaudio
Capture audio even if there are no audio sources reported by v4l.
alsa Capture from ALSA.
amode=<0-3>
Choose an audio mode:
0 mono
1 stereo
2 language 1
3 language 2
forcechan=<1-2>
By default, the count of recorded audio channels is determined automatically by querying
the audio mode from the TV card. This option allows forcing stereo/mono recording
regardless of the amode option and the values returned by v4l. This can be used for
troubleshooting when the TV card is unable to report the current audio mode.
adevice=<value>
Set an audio device. <value> should be /dev/xxx for OSS and a hardware ID for ALSA. You
must replace any ':' by a '.' in the hardware ID for ALSA.
audioid=<value>
Choose an audio output of the capture card, if it has more than one.
[volume|bass|treble|balance]=<0-65535> (v4l1)
[volume|bass|treble|balance]=<0-100> (v4l2)
These options set parameters of the mixer on the video capture card. They will have no
effect, if your card does not have one. For v4l2 50 maps to the default value of the
control, as reported by the driver.
gain=<0-100> (v4l2)
Set gain control for video devices (usually webcams) to the desired value and switch off
automatic control. A value of 0 enables automatic control. If this option is omitted, gain
control will not be modified.
immediatemode=<bool>
A value of 0 means capture and buffer audio and video together. A value of 1 (default)
means to do video capture only and let the audio go through a loopback cable from the TV
card to the sound card.
mjpeg Use hardware MJPEG compression (if the card supports it). When using this option, you do
not need to specify the width and height of the output window, because MPlayer will
determine it automatically from the decimation value (see below).
decimation=<1|2|4>
choose the size of the picture that will be compressed by hardware MJPEG compression:
1 full size
• 704x576 PAL
• 704x480 NTSC
2 medium size
• 352x288 PAL
• 352x240 NTSC
4 small size
• 176x144 PAL
• 176x120 NTSC
quality=<0-100>
Choose the quality of the JPEG compression (< 60 recommended for full size).
tdevice=<value>
Specify TV teletext device (example: /dev/vbi0) (default: none).
tformat=<format>
Specify TV teletext display format (default: 0):
0 opaque
1 transparent
2 opaque with inverted colors
3 transparent with inverted colors
tpage=<100-899>
Specify initial TV teletext page number (default: 100).
tlang=<-1-127>
Specify default teletext language code (default: 0), which will be used as primary language
until a type 28 packet is received. Useful when the teletext system uses a non-latin
character set, but language codes are not transmitted via teletext type 28 packets for some
reason. To see a list of supported language codes set this option to -1.
hidden_video_renderer (dshow only)
Terminate stream with video renderer instead of Null renderer (default: off). Will help if
video freezes but audio does not.
NOTE: May not work with --vo=directx and --vf=crop combination.
hidden_vp_renderer (dshow only)
Terminate VideoPort pin stream with video renderer instead of removing it from the graph
(default: off). Useful if your card has a VideoPort pin and video is choppy.
NOTE: May not work with --vo=directx and --vf=crop combination.
system_clock (dshow only)
Use the system clock as sync source instead of the default graph clock (usually the clock
from one of the live sources in graph).
normalize_audio_chunks (dshow only)
Create audio chunks with a time length equal to video frame time length (default: off).
Some audio cards create audio chunks about 0.5s in size, resulting in choppy video when
using immediatemode=0.
--tvscan=<option1:option2:...>
Tune the TV channel scanner. MPlayer will also print value for "-tv channels=" option, including
existing and just found channels.
Available suboptions are:
autostart
Begin channel scanning immediately after startup (default: disabled).
period=<0.1-2.0>
Specify delay in seconds before switching to next channel (default: 0.5). Lower values will
cause faster scanning, but can detect inactive TV channels as active.
threshold=<1-100>
Threshold value for the signal strength (in percent), as reported by the device (default:
50). A signal strength higher than this value will indicate that the currently scanning
channel is active.
--unrarexec=<filename>
Specify the path to the unrar executable so MPlayer can use it to access rar-compressed VOBsub
files (default: not set, so the feature is off). The path must include the executable's filename,
i.e. /usr/local/bin/unrar. Not supported on MingW.
--use-filedir-conf
Look for a file-specific configuration file in the same directory as the file that is being
played.
WARNING: May be dangerous if playing from untrusted media.
--use-filename-title
Set the window title using the media filename, when not set with --title. Supported by X11-based
video output drivers. See also --title.
--user=<username>
Used with some network protocols. Specify username for HTTP authentication. See also --passwd.
--user-agent=<string>
Use <string> as user agent for HTTP streaming.
-v Increment verbosity level, one level for each -v found on the command line.
--vc=<[-\|+]codec1,[-\|+]codec2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of video codecs to be used, according to their codec name in codecs.conf.
Use a '-' before the codec name to omit it. Use a '+' before the codec name to force it, this
will likely crash! If the list has a trailing ',' MPlayer will fall back on codecs not contained
in the list.
NOTE: See --vc=help for a full list of available codecs.
EXAMPLE:
--vc=divx
Force Win32/VfW DivX codec, no fallback.
--vc=-divxds,-divx,
Skip Win32 DivX codecs.
--vc=ffh264vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,
Try VDPAU decoding of H.264 or VC-1, then anything else.
--vf=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
Specify a list of video filters to apply to the video stream. See Video Filters for details and
descriptions of the available filters. The option variants --vf-add, --vf-pre, --vf-del and
--vf-clr exist to modify a previously specified list, but you shouldn't need these for typical
use.
--vfm=<driver1,driver2,...>
Specify a priority list of video codec families to be used, according to their names in
codecs.conf. Falls back on the default codecs if none of the given codec families work.
NOTE: See --vfm=help for a full list of available codec families.
EXAMPLE:
--vfm=ffmpeg,dshow,vfw
Try the libavcodec, then Directshow, then VfW codecs and fall back on others, if they do
not work.
--vfm=xanim
Try XAnim codecs first.
--vid=<ID>
Select video channel (MPG: 0-15, ASF: 0-255, MPEG-TS: 17-8190). When playing an MPEG-TS stream,
MPlayer will use the first program (if present) with the chosen video stream.
--vivo=<suboption>
(DEBUG CODE) Force audio parameters for the VIVO demuxer (for debugging purposes). FIXME:
Document this.
--vm Try to change to a different video mode. Supported by the x11, xv, sdl and directx video output
drivers. If used with the directx video output driver the --screenw, --screenh, --bpp and
--refreshrate options can be used to set the new display mode.
--vo=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of video output drivers to be used. For interactive use you'd normally
specify a single one to use, but in configuration files specifying a list of fallbacks may make
sense. See Video Output Drivers for details and descriptions of available drivers.
--vobsub=<file>
Specify a VOBsub file to use for subtitles. Has to be the full pathname without extension, i.e.
without the .idx, .ifo or .sub.
--vobsubid=<0-31>
Specify the VOBsub subtitle ID.
--volstep=<0-100>
Set the step size of mixer volume changes in percent of the whole range (default: 3).
--volume=<-1-100>
Set the startup volume in the mixer, either hardware or software (if used with --softvol). A value
of -1 (the default) will not change the volume. See also --af=volume.
--vsync
Enables VBI for the vesa, dfbmga and svga video output drivers.
--wid=<ID>
(X11, OpenGL and DirectX only) This tells MPlayer to attach to an existing window. Useful to embed
MPlayer in a browser (e.g. the plugger extension). Earlier this option always filled the given
window completely, thus aspect scaling, panscan, etc were no longer handled by MPlayer but had to
be managed by the application that created the window. Now aspect is maintained by default. If
you don't want that use --no-keepaspect.
--x=<width>
Scale image to width <width> (if software/hardware scaling is available). Disables aspect
calculations.
--xineramascreen=<-2-...>
In Xinerama configurations (i.e. a single desktop that spans across multiple displays) this option
tells MPlayer which screen to display the movie on. A value of -2 means fullscreen across the
whole virtual display (in this case Xinerama information is completely ignored), -1 means
fullscreen on the display the window currently is on. The initial position set via the --geometry
option is relative to the specified screen. Will usually only work with --fstype=-fullscreen or
--fstype=none. This option is not suitable to only set the startup screen (because it will always
display on the given screen in fullscreen mode), --geometry is the best that is available for that
purpose currently. Supported by at least the direct3d, gl, x11, xv and corevideo video output
drivers.
--xvidopts=<option1:option2:...>
Specify additional parameters when decoding with Xvid.
NOTE: Since libavcodec is faster than Xvid you might want to use the libavcodec postprocessing
filter (--vf=pp) and decoder (--vfm=ffmpeg) instead.
Xvid's internal postprocessing filters:
deblock-chroma (see also --vf=pp)
chroma deblock filter
deblock-luma (see also --vf=pp)
luma deblock filter
dering-luma (see also --vf=pp)
luma deringing filter
dering-chroma (see also --vf=pp)
chroma deringing filter
filmeffect (see also --vf=noise)
Adds artificial film grain to the video. May increase perceived quality, while lowering
true quality.
rendering methods:
dr2 Activate direct rendering method 2.
nodr2 Deactivate direct rendering method 2.
--xy=<value>
value<=8
Scale image by factor <value>.
value>8
Set width to value and calculate height to keep correct aspect ratio.
--y=<height>
Scale image to height <height> (if software/hardware scaling is available). Disables aspect
calculations.
--zoom Allow software scaling, where available. This will allow scaling with output drivers (like x11)
that do not support hardware scaling where MPlayer disables scaling by default for performance
reasons.
AUDIO OUTPUT DRIVERS
Audio output drivers are interfaces to different audio output facilities. The syntax is:
--ao=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of audio output drivers to be used.
If the list has a trailing ',' MPlayer will fall back on drivers not contained in the list. Suboptions
are optional and can mostly be omitted.
NOTE: See --ao=help for a list of compiled-in audio output drivers.
EXAMPLE:
• --ao=alsa,oss, Try the ALSA driver, then the OSS driver, then others.
• --ao=alsa:noblock:device=hw=0.3 Sets noblock-mode and the device-name as first card, fourth device.
Available audio output drivers are:
alsa ALSA 0.9/1.x audio output driver
noblock
Sets noblock-mode.
device=<device>
Sets the device name. Replace any ',' with '.' and any ':' with '=' in the ALSA device
name. For hwac3 output via S/PDIF, use an "iec958" or "spdif" device, unless you really
know how to set it correctly.
oss OSS audio output driver
<dsp-device>
Sets the audio output device (default: /dev/dsp).
<mixer-device>
Sets the audio mixer device (default: /dev/mixer).
<mixer-channel>
Sets the audio mixer channel (default: pcm).
sdl (SDL only)
highly platform independent SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) library audio output driver
<driver>
Explicitly choose the SDL audio driver to use (default: let SDL choose).
jack audio output through JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
port=<name>
Connects to the ports with the given name (default: physical ports).
name=<client>
Client name that is passed to JACK (default: MPlayer [<PID>]). Useful if you want to have
certain connections established automatically.
(no-)estimate
Estimate the audio delay, supposed to make the video playback smoother (default: enabled).
(no-)autostart
Automatically start jackd if necessary (default: disabled). Note that this seems unreliable
and will spam stdout with server messages.
coreaudio (Mac OS X only)
native Mac OS X audio output driver
device_id=<id>
ID of output device to use (0 = default device)
help List all available output devices with their IDs.
openal Experimental OpenAL audio output driver
pulse PulseAudio audio output driver
[<host>][:<output sink>]
Specify the host and optionally output sink to use. An empty <host> string uses a local
connection, "localhost" uses network transfer (most likely not what you want).
portaudio
PortAudio audio output driver. This works on all platforms, and has extensive MS Windows support.
device Specify the subdevice to use. Giving help as device name lists all devices found by
PortAudio. Devices can be given as numeric values, starting from 1.
dsound (Windows only)
DirectX DirectSound audio output driver
device=<devicenum>
Sets the device number to use. Playing a file with -v will show a list of available
devices.
v4l2 (requires Linux 2.6.22+ kernel)
Audio output driver for V4L2 cards with hardware MPEG decoder.
null Produces no audio output but maintains video playback speed. Use --nosound for benchmarking.
pcm raw PCM/wave file writer audio output
(no-)waveheader
Include or do not include the wave header (default: included). When not included, raw PCM
will be generated.
file=<filename>
Write the sound to <filename> instead of the default audiodump.wav. If nowaveheader is
specified, the default is audiodump.pcm.
rsound audio output to an RSound daemon
host=<name/path>
Set the address of the server (default: localhost). Can be either a network hostname for
TCP connections or a Unix domain socket path starting with '/'.
port=<number>
Set the TCP port used for connecting to the server (default: 12345). Not used if
connecting to a Unix domain socket.
VIDEO OUTPUT DRIVERS
Video output drivers are interfaces to different video output facilities. The syntax is:
--vo=<driver1[:suboption1[=value]:...],driver2,...[,]>
Specify a priority list of video output drivers to be used.
If the list has a trailing ',' MPlayer will fall back on drivers not contained in the list. Suboptions
are optional and can mostly be omitted.
NOTE: See --vo=help for a list of compiled-in video output drivers.
EXAMPLE:
--vo=gl,xv,
Try the gl driver, then the Xv driver, then others.
--vo=directx:noaccel
Uses the DirectX driver with acceleration features turned off.
Available video output drivers are:
xv (X11 only)
Uses the XVideo extension to enable hardware accelerated playback. This is the most compatible VO
on X, but may be low quality, and has issues with OSD and subtitle display. For information about
what colorkey is used and how it is drawn run MPlayer with -v option and look out for the lines
tagged with [xv common] at the beginning.
adaptor=<number>
Select a specific XVideo adaptor (check xvinfo results).
port=<number>
Select a specific XVideo port.
ck=<cur|use|set>
Select the source from which the colorkey is taken (default: cur).
cur The default takes the colorkey currently set in Xv.
use Use but do not set the colorkey from MPlayer (use the --colorkey option to change
it).
set Same as use but also sets the supplied colorkey.
ck-method=<man|bg|auto>
Sets the colorkey drawing method (default: man).
man Draw the colorkey manually (reduces flicker in some cases).
bg Set the colorkey as window background.
auto Let Xv draw the colorkey.
x11 (X11 only)
Shared memory video output driver without hardware acceleration that works whenever X11 is
present.
vdpau (X11 only)
Uses the VDPAU interface to display and optionally also decode video. Hardware decoding is used
with --vc=ffmpeg12vdpau, --vc=ffwmv3vdpau, --vc=ffvc1vdpau, --vc=ffh264vdpau or --vc=ffodivxvdpau.
sharpen=<-1-1>
For positive values, apply a sharpening algorithm to the video, for negative values a
blurring algorithm (default: 0).
denoise=<0-1>
Apply a noise reduction algorithm to the video (default: 0, no noise reduction).
deint=<-4-4>
Select deinterlacing mode (default: -3). Positive values choose mode and enable
deinterlacing. Corresponding negative values select the same deinterlacing mode, but do not
enable deinterlacing on startup (useful in configuration files to specify what mode will be
enabled by the "D" key). All modes respect --field-dominance.
0 same as -3
1 Show only first field, similar to --vf=field.
2 Bob deinterlacing, similar to --vf=tfields=1.
3 motion adaptive temporal deinterlacing. May lead to A/V desync with slow video
hardware and/or high resolution.
4 motion adaptive temporal deinterlacing with edge-guided spatial interpolation. Needs
fast video hardware.
chroma-deint
Makes temporal deinterlacers operate both on luma and chroma (default). Use
no-chroma-deint to solely use luma and speed up advanced deinterlacing. Useful with slow
video memory.
pullup Try to apply inverse telecine, needs motion adaptive temporal deinterlacing.
hqscaling=<0-9>
0 Use default VDPAU scaling (default).
1-9 Apply high quality VDPAU scaling (needs capable hardware).
fps=<number>
Override autodetected display refresh rate value (the value is needed for framedrop to
allow video playback rates higher than display refresh rate, and for vsync-aware frame
timing adjustments). Default 0 means use autodetected value. A positive value is
interpreted as a refresh rate in Hz and overrides the autodetected value. A negative value
disables all timing adjustment and framedrop logic.
composite-detect
NVIDIA's current VDPAU implementation behaves somewhat differently under a compositing
window manager and does not give accurate frame timing information. With this option
enabled, the player tries to detect whether a compositing window manager is active. If one
is detected, the player disables timing adjustments as if the user had specified fps=-1 (as
they would be based on incorrect input). This means timing is somewhat less accurate than
without compositing, but with the composited mode behavior of the NVIDIA driver there is no
hard playback speed limit even without the disabled logic. Enabled by default, use
no-composite-detect to disable.
queuetime_windowed=<number> and queuetime_fs=<number>
Use VDPAU's presentation queue functionality to queue future video frame changes at most
this many milliseconds in advance (default: 50). See below for additional information.
output_surfaces=<2-15>
Allocate this many output surfaces to display video frames (default: 3). See below for
additional information.
Using the VDPAU frame queueing functionality controlled by the queuetime options makes MPlayer's
frame flip timing less sensitive to system CPU load and allows MPlayer to start decoding the next
frame(s) slightly earlier which can reduce jitter caused by individual slow-to-decode frames.
However the NVIDIA graphics drivers can make other window behavior such as window moves choppy if
VDPAU is using the blit queue (mainly happens if you have the composite extension enabled) and
this feature is active. If this happens on your system and it bothers you then you can set the
queuetime value to 0 to disable this feature. The settings to use in windowed and fullscreen mode
are separate because there should be less reason to disable this for fullscreen mode (as the
driver issue shouldn't affect the video itself).
You can queue more frames ahead by increasing the queuetime values and the output_surfaces count
(to ensure enough surfaces to buffer video for a certain time ahead you need at least as many
surfaces as the video has frames during that time, plus two). This could help make video smoother
in some cases. The main downsides are increased video RAM requirements for the surfaces and
laggier display response to user commands (display changes only become visible some time after
they're queued). The graphics driver implementation may also have limits on the length of maximum
queuing time or number of queued surfaces that work well or at all.
sdl (SDL only, buggy/outdated)
Highly platform independent SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) library video output driver. Since SDL
uses its own X11 layer, MPlayer X11 options do not have any effect on SDL. Note that it has
several minor bugs (--vm/--no-vm is mostly ignored, --fs behaves like --no-vm should, window is in
top-left corner when returning from fullscreen, panscan is not supported, ...).
driver=<driver>
Explicitly choose the SDL driver to use.
(no-)forcexv
Use XVideo through the sdl video output driver (default: forcexv).
(no-)hwaccel
Use hardware accelerated scaler (default: hwaccel).
direct3d (Windows only) (BETA CODE!)
Video output driver that uses the Direct3D interface (useful for Vista).
directx (Windows only)
Video output driver that uses the DirectX interface.
noaccel
Turns off hardware acceleration. Try this option if you have display problems.
corevideo (Mac OS X 10.6 and later)
Mac OS X CoreVideo video output driver. Uses the CoreVideo APIs to fill PixelBuffers and generate
OpenGL textures from them (useful as a fallback for vo_gl).
gl OpenGL video output driver, simple version. Video size must be smaller than the maximum texture
size of your OpenGL implementation. Intended to work even with the most basic OpenGL
implementations, but also makes use of newer extensions, which allow support for more colorspaces
and direct rendering. For optimal speed try adding the options --dr=-noslices
The code performs very few checks, so if a feature does not work, this might be because it is not
supported by your card/OpenGL implementation even if you do not get any error message. Use glxinfo
or a similar tool to display the supported OpenGL extensions.
(no-)ati-hack
ATI drivers may give a corrupted image when PBOs are used (when using --dr or force-pbo).
This option fixes this, at the expense of using a bit more memory.
(no-)force-pbo
Always uses PBOs to transfer textures even if this involves an extra copy. Currently this
gives a little extra speed with NVidia drivers and a lot more speed with ATI drivers. May
need --no-slices and the ati-hack suboption to work correctly.
(no-)scaled-osd
Changes the way the OSD behaves when the size of the window changes (default: disabled).
When enabled behaves more like the other video output drivers, which is better for
fixed-size fonts. Disabled looks much better with FreeType fonts and uses the borders in
fullscreen mode. Does not work correctly with ass subtitles (see --ass), you can instead
render them without OpenGL support via --vf=ass.
osdcolor=<0xAARRGGBB>
Color for OSD (default: 0x00ffffff, corresponds to non-transparent white).
rectangle=<0,1,2>
Select usage of rectangular textures which saves video RAM, but often is slower (default:
0).
0 Use power-of-two textures (default).
1 Use the GL_ARB_texture_rectangle extension.
2 Use the GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two extension. In some cases only supported in
software and thus very slow.
swapinterval=<n>
Minimum interval between two buffer swaps, counted in displayed frames (default: 1). 1 is
equivalent to enabling VSYNC, 0 to disabling VSYNC. Values below 0 will leave it at the
system default. This limits the framerate to (horizontal refresh rate / n). Requires
GLX_SGI_swap_control support to work. With some (most/all?) implementations this only
works in fullscreen mode.
ycbcr Use the GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture extension to convert YUV to RGB. In most cases this is
probably slower than doing software conversion to RGB.
yuv=<n>
Select the type of YUV to RGB conversion. The default is auto-detection deciding between
values 0 and 2.
0 Use software conversion. Compatible with all OpenGL versions. Provides brightness,
contrast and saturation control.
1 Same as 2. This used to use nVidia-specific extensions, which didn't provide any
advantages over using fragment programs, except possibly on very ancient graphic
cards. It produced a gray-ish output, which is why it has been removed.
2 Use a fragment program. Needs the GL_ARB_fragment_program extension and at least
three texture units. Provides brightness, contrast, saturation and hue control.
3 Use a fragment program using the POW instruction. Needs the GL_ARB_fragment_program
extension and at least three texture units. Provides brightness, contrast,
saturation, hue and gamma control. Gamma can also be set independently for red,
green and blue. Method 4 is usually faster.
4 Use a fragment program with additional lookup. Needs the GL_ARB_fragment_program
extension and at least four texture units. Provides brightness, contrast,
saturation, hue and gamma control. Gamma can also be set independently for red,
green and blue.
5 Use ATI-specific method (for older cards). This uses an ATI-specific extension
(GL_ATI_fragment_shader - not GL_ARB_fragment_shader!). At least three texture units
are needed. Provides saturation and hue control. This method is fast but inexact.
6 Use a 3D texture to do conversion via lookup. Needs the GL_ARB_fragment_program
extension and at least four texture units. Extremely slow (software emulation) on
some (all?) ATI cards since it uses a texture with border pixels. Provides
brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma control. Gamma can also be set
independently for red, green and blue. Speed depends more on GPU memory bandwidth
than other methods.
lscale=<n>
Select the scaling function to use for luminance scaling. Only valid for yuv modes 2, 3, 4
and 6.
0 Use simple linear filtering (default).
1 Use bicubic B-spline filtering (better quality). Needs one additional texture unit.
Older cards will not be able to handle this for chroma at least in fullscreen mode.
2 Use cubic filtering in horizontal, linear filtering in vertical direction. Works on
a few more cards than method 1.
3 Same as 1 but does not use a lookup texture. Might be faster on some cards.
4 Use experimental unsharp masking with 3x3 support and a default strength of 0.5 (see
filter-strength).
5 Use experimental unsharp masking with 5x5 support and a default strength of 0.5 (see
filter-strength).
cscale=<n>
Select the scaling function to use for chrominance scaling. For details see lscale.
filter-strength=<value>
Set the effect strength for the lscale/cscale filters that support it.
noise-strength=<value>
Set how much noise to add. 0 to disable (default), 1.0 for a level suitable for dithering
to 6 bit.
stereo=<value>
Select a method for stereo display. You may have to use --aspect to fix the aspect value.
Experimental, do not expect too much from it.
0 Normal 2D display
1 Convert side by side input to full-color red-cyan stereo.
2 Convert side by side input to full-color green-magenta stereo.
3 Convert side by side input to quadbuffered stereo. Only supported by very few OpenGL
cards.
The following options are only useful if writing your own fragment programs.
customprog=<filename>
Load a custom fragment program from <filename>. See TOOLS/edgedect.fp for an example.
customtex=<filename>
Load a custom "gamma ramp" texture from <filename>. This can be used in combination with
yuv=4 or with the customprog option.
(no-)customtlin
If enabled (default) use GL_LINEAR interpolation, otherwise use GL_NEAREST for customtex
texture.
(no-)customtrect
If enabled, use texture_rectangle for customtex texture. Default is disabled.
(no-)mipmapgen
If enabled, mipmaps for the video are automatically generated. This should be useful
together with the customprog and the TXB instruction to implement blur filters with a large
radius. For most OpenGL implementations this is very slow for any non-RGB formats. Default
is disabled.
Normally there is no reason to use the following options, they mostly exist for testing purposes.
(no-)glfinish
Call glFinish() before swapping buffers. Slower but in some cases more correct output
(default: disabled).
(no-)manyfmts
Enables support for more (RGB and BGR) color formats (default: enabled). Needs OpenGL
version >= 1.2.
slice-height=<0-...>
Number of lines copied to texture in one piece (default: 0). 0 for whole image.
NOTE: If YUV colorspace is used (see yuv suboption), special rules apply: If the decoder
uses slice rendering (see --no-slices), this setting has no effect, the size of the slices
as provided by the decoder is used. If the decoder does not use slice rendering, the
default is 16.
(no-)osd
Enable or disable support for OSD rendering via OpenGL (default: enabled). This option is
for testing; to disable the OSD use --osdlevel=0 instead.
backend=<sys>
auto auto-select (default)
cocoa Cocoa/OSX
win Win32/WGL
x11 X11/GLX
gl3 OpenGL video output driver, extended version. The requires an OpenGL 3 capable graphics driver.
(Note: this is only because of developer pedantry. The dependency on actual OpenGL 3 features is
rather low.)
It supports extended scaling methods, dithering and color management. It tries to use sane
defaults for good quality output.
Note that some cheaper LCDs do dithering that gravely interferes with vo_gl3's dithering.
Disabling dithering with dither-depth=-1 helps.
Sometimes you can achieve better quality or performance by changing the fbo-format sub-option to
rgb16f, rgb32f or rgb. (Known problems include Mesa/Intel not accepting rgb16, Mesa sometimes not
being compiled with float texture support, and some OSX setups being very slow with rgb16, but
fast with rgb32f.)
lscale=<filter>
Set the scaling filter. Possible choices:
bilinear bicubic_fast sharpen3 sharpen5 hanning hamming hermite quadric bicubic
kaiser catmull_rom mitchell spline16 spline36 gaussian sinc2 sinc3 sinc4 lanczos2
lanczos3 lanczos4 blackman2 blackman3 blackman4
bilinear
Bilinear hardware texture filtering (fastest, mid-quality).
lanczos2
Lanczos scaling with radius=2. Provides a good quality and speed. This is the
default.
lanczos3
Lanczos with radius=3.
bicubic_fast
Bicubic filter. Has a blurring effect on the image, even if no scaling is done.
sharpen3
Unsharp masking (sharpening) with radius=3 and a default strength of 0.5 (see
lparam1).
sharpen5
Unsharp masking (sharpening) with radius=5 and a default strength of 0.5 (see
lparam1).
mitchell
Mitchell-Netravali. The b and c parameters can be set with lparam1 and lparam2. Both
are set to 1/3 by default.
lparam1=<value>
Set filter parameters. Ignored if the filter is not tunable. These are unset by default,
and use the filter specific default if applicable.
lparam2=<value>
See lparam1.
stereo=<value>
Select a method for stereo display. You may have to use --aspect to fix the aspect value.
Experimental, do not expect too much from it.
0 Normal 2D display
1 Convert side by side input to full-color red-cyan stereo.
2 Convert side by side input to full-color green-magenta stereo.
3 Convert side by side input to quadbuffered stereo. Only supported by very few OpenGL
cards.
srgb Enable gamma-correct scaling by working in linear light. This makes use of sRGB textures
and framebuffers. This option forces the options 'indirect' and 'gamma'. NOTE: for YUV
colorspaces, gamma 2.2 is assumed. RGB input is always assumed to be in sRGB. This option
is not really useful, as gamma-correct scaling does not have much influence on typical
video playback.
pbo Enable use of PBOs. This is faster, but can sometimes lead to sporadic and temporary image
corruption.
dither-depth=<n>
Positive non-zero values select the target bit depth. Default: 0.
-1 Disable any dithering done by mplayer.
0 Automatic selection. If output bit depth can't be detected, 8 bits per component are
assumed.
8 Dither to 8 bit output.
Note that dithering will always be disabled if the bit depth of the video is lower or equal
to the detected dither-depth. If color management is enabled, input depth is assumed to be
16 bits, because the 3D LUT output is 16 bit wide.
Note that the depth of the connected video display device can not be detected. Often, LCD
panels will do dithering on their own, which conflicts with vo_gl3's dithering, and leads
to ugly output.
debug Check for OpenGL errors, i.e. call glGetError(). Also request a debug OpenGL context (which
does nothing with current graphics drivers as of this writing).
swapinterval=<n>
Interval in displayed frames between two buffer swaps. 1 is equivalent to enable VSYNC, 0
to disable VSYNC.
no-scale-sep
When using a separable scale filter for luma, usually two filter passes are done. This is
often faster. However, it forces conversion to RGB in an extra pass, so it can actually be
slower if used with fast filters on small screen resolutions. Using this options will make
rendering a single operation. Note that chroma scalers are always done as 1-pass filters.
cscale=<n>
As lscale but for chroma (2x slower with little visible effect). Note that with some
scaling filters, upscaling is always done in RGB. If chroma is not subsampled, this option
is ignored, and the luma scaler is used instead. Setting this option is often useless.
no-fancy-downscaling
When using convolution based filters, don't extend the filter size when downscaling. Trades
downscaling performance for reduced quality.
no-npot
Force use of power-of-2 texture sizes. For debugging only. Borders will be distorted due
to filtering.
glfinish
Call glFinish() before swapping buffers
backend=<sys>
auto auto-select (default)
cocoa Cocoa/OSX
win Win32/WGL
x11 X11/GLX
indirect
Do YUV conversion and scaling as separate passes. This will first render the video into a
video-sized RGB texture, and draw the result on screen. The luma scaler is used to scale
the RGB image when rendering to screen. The chroma scaler is used only on YUV conversion,
and only if the video uses chroma-subsampling. This mechanism is disabled on RGB input.
Specifying this option directly is generally useful for debugging only.
fbo-format=<fmt>
Selects the internal format of any FBO textures used. fmt can be one of: rgb, rgba, rgb8,
rgb16, rgb16f, rgb32f Default: rgb16.
gamma Always enable gamma control. (Disables delayed enabling.)
force-gl2
Create a legacy GL context. This will randomly malfunction if the proper extensions are not
supported.
icc-profile=<file>
Load an ICC profile and use it to transform linear RGB to screen output. Needs LittleCMS2
support compiled in.
icc-cache=<file>
Store and load the 3D LUT created from the ICC profile in this file. This can be used to
speed up loading, since LittleCMS2 can take a while to create the 3D LUT. Note that this
file contains an uncompressed LUT. Its size depends on the 3dlut-size, and can be very big.
icc-intent=<value>
0 perceptual
1 relative colorimetric
2 saturation
3 absolute colorimetric (default)
3dlut-size=<r>x<g>x<b>
Size of the 3D LUT generated from the ICC profile in each dimension. Default is 128x256x64.
Sizes must be a power of two, and 256 at most.
null Produces no video output. Useful for benchmarking.
caca Color ASCII art video output driver that works on a text console.
directfb
Play video using the DirectFB library.
(no-)input
Use the DirectFB instead of the MPlayer keyboard code (default: enabled).
buffermode=single|double|triple
Double and triple buffering give best results if you want to avoid tearing issues. Triple
buffering is more efficient than double buffering as it does not block MPlayer while
waiting for the vertical retrace. Single buffering should be avoided (default: single).
fieldparity=top|bottom
Control the output order for interlaced frames (default: disabled). Valid values are top =
top fields first, bottom = bottom fields first. This option does not have any effect on
progressive film material like most MPEG movies are. You need to enable this option if you
have tearing issues or unsmooth motions watching interlaced film material.
layer=N
Will force layer with ID N for playback (default: -1 - auto).
dfbopts=<list>
Specify a parameter list for DirectFB.
v4l2 (requires Linux 2.6.22+ kernel)
Video output driver for V4L2 compliant cards with built-in hardware MPEG decoder. See also the
lavc video filter.
<device>
Explicitly choose the MPEG decoder device name to use (default: /dev/video16).
<output>
Explicitly choose the TV-out output to be used for the video signal.
md5sum Calculate MD5 sums of each frame and write them to a file. Supports RGB24 and YV12 colorspaces.
Useful for debugging.
outfile=<value>
Specify the output filename (default: ./md5sums).
yuv4mpeg
Transforms the video stream into a sequence of uncompressed YUV 4:2:0 images and stores it in a
file (default: ./stream.yuv). The format is the same as the one employed by mjpegtools, so this is
useful if you want to process the video with the mjpegtools suite. It supports the YV12 format. If
your source file has a different format and is interlaced, make sure to use --vf=scale=::1 to
ensure the conversion uses interlaced mode. You can combine it with the --fixed-vo option to
concatenate files with the same dimensions and fps value.
interlaced
Write the output as interlaced frames, top field first.
interlaced_bf
Write the output as interlaced frames, bottom field first.
file=<filename>
Write the output to <filename> instead of the default stream.yuv.
NOTE: If you do not specify any option the output is progressive (i.e. not interlaced).
gif89a Output each frame into a single animated GIF file in the current directory. It supports only RGB
format with 24 bpp and the output is converted to 256 colors.
<fps> Float value to specify framerate (default: 5.0).
<output>
Specify the output filename (default: ./out.gif).
NOTE: You must specify the framerate before the filename or the framerate will be part of the
filename.
EXAMPLE: mplayer video.nut --vo=gif89a:fps=15:output=test.gif
jpeg Output each frame into a JPEG file in the current directory. Each file takes the frame number
padded with leading zeros as name.
[no]progressive
Specify standard or progressive JPEG (default: noprogressive).
[no]baseline
Specify use of baseline or not (default: baseline).
optimize=<0-100>
optimization factor (default: 100)
smooth=<0-100>
smooth factor (default: 0)
quality=<0-100>
quality factor (default: 75)
outdir=<dirname>
Specify the directory to save the JPEG files to (default: ./).
subdirs=<prefix>
Create numbered subdirectories with the specified prefix to save the files in instead of
the current directory.
maxfiles=<value> (subdirs only)
Maximum number of files to be saved per subdirectory. Must be equal to or larger than 1
(default: 1000).
pnm Output each frame into a PNM file in the current directory. Each file takes the frame number
padded with leading zeros as name. It supports PPM, PGM and PGMYUV files in both raw and ASCII
mode. See also pnm(5), ppm(5) and pgm(5).
ppm Write PPM files (default).
pgm Write PGM files.
pgmyuv Write PGMYUV files. PGMYUV is like PGM, but it also contains the U and V plane, appended at
the bottom of the picture.
raw Write PNM files in raw mode (default).
ascii Write PNM files in ASCII mode.
outdir=<dirname>
Specify the directory to save the PNM files to (default: ./).
subdirs=<prefix>
Create numbered subdirectories with the specified prefix to save the files in instead of
the current directory.
maxfiles=<value> (subdirs only)
Maximum number of files to be saved per subdirectory. Must be equal to or larger than 1
(default: 1000).
png Output each frame into a PNG file in the current directory. Each file takes the frame number
padded with leading zeros as name. 24bpp RGB and BGR formats are supported.
z=<0-9>
Specifies the compression level. 0 is no compression, 9 is maximum compression.
alpha Create PNG files with an alpha channel. Note that MPlayer in general does not support
alpha, so this will only be useful in some rare cases.
tga Output each frame into a Targa file in the current directory. Each file takes the frame number
padded with leading zeros as name. The purpose of this video output driver is to have a simple
lossless image writer to use without any external library. It supports the BGR[A] color format,
with 15, 24 and 32 bpp. You can force a particular format with the format video filter.
EXAMPLE: mplayer video.nut --vf=format=bgr15 --vo=tga
sharedbuffer (Mac OS X 10.6 and later)
Mac OS X headless video output designed to interact with GUIs. It copies image data to a shared
buffer so that the data can be read from a GUI and rendered.
It uses the same protocol as MPlayer's -vo corevideo:shared_buffer
buffer_name=<buffer_name>
Name of the shared buffer created with shm_open() as well as the name of the NSConnection
mplayer2 will try to open (default: mplayerosx).
AUDIO FILTERS
Audio filters allow you to modify the audio stream and its properties. The syntax is:
--af=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
Setup a chain of audio filters.
NOTE: To get a full list of available audio filters, see --af=help.
Audio filters are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the filter list.
--af-add=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
Appends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.
--af-pre=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
Prepends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.
--af-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
Deletes the filters at the given indexes. Index numbers start at 0, negative numbers address the
end of the list (-1 is the last).
--af-clr
Completely empties the filter list.
Available filters are:
resample[=srate[:sloppy[:type]]]
Changes the sample rate of the audio stream. Can be used if you have a fixed frequency sound card
or if you are stuck with an old sound card that is only capable of max 44.1kHz. This filter is
automatically enabled if necessary. It only supports 16-bit integer and float in native-endian
format as input.
<srate>
output sample frequency in Hz. The valid range for this parameter is 8000 to 192000. If the
input and output sample frequency are the same or if this parameter is omitted the filter
is automatically unloaded. A high sample frequency normally improves the audio quality,
especially when used in combination with other filters.
<sloppy>
Allow (1) or disallow (0) the output frequency to differ slightly from the frequency given
by <srate> (default: 1). Can be used if the startup of the playback is extremely slow.
<type> Select which resampling method to use.
0 linear interpolation (fast, poor quality especially when upsampling)
1 polyphase filterbank and integer processing
2 polyphase filterbank and floating point processing (slow, best quality)
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=resample=44100:0:0
would set the output frequency of the resample filter to 44100Hz using exact output
frequency scaling and linear interpolation.
lavcresample[=srate[:length[:linear[:count[:cutoff]]]]]
Changes the sample rate of the audio stream to an integer <srate> in Hz. It only supports the
16-bit native-endian format.
<srate>
the output sample rate
<length>
length of the filter with respect to the lower sampling rate (default: 16)
<linear>
if 1 then filters will be linearly interpolated between polyphase entries
<count>
log2 of the number of polyphase entries (..., 10->1024, 11->2048, 12->4096, ...) (default:
10->1024)
<cutoff>
cutoff frequency (0.0-1.0), default set depending upon filter length
lavcac3enc[=tospdif[:bitrate[:minchn]]]
Encode multi-channel audio to AC-3 at runtime using libavcodec. Supports 16-bit native-endian
input format, maximum 6 channels. The output is big-endian when outputting a raw AC-3 stream,
native-endian when outputting to S/PDIF. The output sample rate of this filter is same with the
input sample rate. When input sample rate is 48kHz, 44.1kHz, or 32kHz, this filter directly use
it. Otherwise a resampling filter is auto-inserted before this filter to make the input and output
sample rate be 48kHz. You need to specify --channels=N to make the decoder decode audio into
N-channel, then the filter can encode the N-channel input to AC-3.
<tospdif>
Output raw AC-3 stream if zero or not set, output to S/PDIF for passthrough when <tospdif>
is set non-zero.
<bitrate>
The bitrate to encode the AC-3 stream. Set it to either 384 or 384000 to get 384kbits.
Valid values: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320, 384, 448, 512,
576, 640.
Default bitrate is based on the input channel number:
1ch 96
2ch 192
3ch 224
4ch 384
5ch 448
6ch 448
<minchn>
If the input channel number is less than <minchn>, the filter will detach itself (default:
5).
sweep[=speed]
Produces a sine sweep.
<0.0-1.0>
Sine function delta, use very low values to hear the sweep.
sinesuppress[=freq:decay]
Remove a sine at the specified frequency. Useful to get rid of the 50/60Hz noise on low quality
audio equipment. It probably only works on mono input.
<freq> The frequency of the sine which should be removed (in Hz) (default: 50)
<decay>
Controls the adaptivity (a larger value will make the filter adapt to amplitude and phase
changes quicker, a smaller value will make the adaptation slower) (default: 0.0001).
Reasonable values are around 0.001.
bs2b[=option1:option2:...]
Bauer stereophonic to binaural transformation using libbs2b. Improves the headphone listening
experience by making the sound similar to that from loudspeakers, allowing each ear to hear both
channels and taking into account the distance difference and the head shadowing effect. It is
applicable only to 2 channel audio.
fcut=<300-1000>
Set cut frequency in Hz.
feed=<10-150>
Set feed level for low frequencies in 0.1*dB.
profile=<value>
Several profiles are available for convenience:
default
will be used if nothing else was specified (fcut=700, feed=45)
cmoy Chu Moy circuit implementation (fcut=700, feed=60)
jmeier Jan Meier circuit implementation (fcut=650, feed=95)
If fcut or feed options are specified together with a profile, they will be applied on top of the
selected profile.
hrtf[=flag]
Head-related transfer function: Converts multichannel audio to 2 channel output for headphones,
preserving the spatiality of the sound.
┌─────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
│Flag │ Meaning │
├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│m │ matrix decoding of the rear channel │
├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│s │ 2-channel matrix decoding │
└─────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘
│0 │ no matrix decoding (default) │
└─────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘
equalizer=[g1:g2:g3:...:g10]
10 octave band graphic equalizer, implemented using 10 IIR band pass filters. This means that it
works regardless of what type of audio is being played back. The center frequencies for the 10
bands are:
┌────┬────────────┐
│No. │ frequency │
├────┼────────────┤
│0 │ 31.25 Hz │
├────┼────────────┤
│1 │ 62.50 Hz │
├────┼────────────┤
│2 │ 125.00 Hz │
├────┼────────────┤
│3 │ 250.00 Hz │
├────┼────────────┤
│4 │ 500.00 Hz │
├────┼────────────┤
│5 │ 1.00 kHz │
├────┼────────────┤
│6 │ 2.00 kHz │
├────┼────────────┤
│7 │ 4.00 kHz │
├────┼────────────┤
│8 │ 8.00 kHz │
├────┼────────────┤
│9 │ 16.00 kHz │
└────┴────────────┘
If the sample rate of the sound being played is lower than the center frequency for a frequency
band, then that band will be disabled. A known bug with this filter is that the characteristics
for the uppermost band are not completely symmetric if the sample rate is close to the center
frequency of that band. This problem can be worked around by upsampling the sound using the
resample filter before it reaches this filter.
<g1>:<g2>:<g3>:...:<g10>
floating point numbers representing the gain in dB for each frequency band (-12-12)
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=equalizer=11:11:10:5:0:-12:0:5:12:12 media.avi
Would amplify the sound in the upper and lower frequency region while canceling it almost
completely around 1kHz.
channels=nch[:nr:from1:to1:from2:to2:from3:to3:...]
Can be used for adding, removing, routing and copying audio channels. If only <nch> is given the
default routing is used, it works as follows: If the number of output channels is bigger than the
number of input channels empty channels are inserted (except mixing from mono to stereo, then the
mono channel is repeated in both of the output channels). If the number of output channels is
smaller than the number of input channels the exceeding channels are truncated.
<nch> number of output channels (1-8)
<nr> number of routes (1-8)
<from1:to1:from2:to2:from3:to3:...>
Pairs of numbers between 0 and 7 that define where to route each channel.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=channels=4:4:0:1:1:0:2:2:3:3 media.avi
Would change the number of channels to 4 and set up 4 routes that swap channel 0 and
channel 1 and leave channel 2 and 3 intact. Observe that if media containing two channels
was played back, channels 2 and 3 would contain silence but 0 and 1 would still be swapped.
mplayer --af=channels=6:4:0:0:0:1:0:2:0:3 media.avi
Would change the number of channels to 6 and set up 4 routes that copy channel 0 to
channels 0 to 3. Channel 4 and 5 will contain silence.
format[=format]
Convert between different sample formats. Automatically enabled when needed by the sound card or
another filter. See also --format.
<format>
Sets the desired format. The general form is 'sbe', where 's' denotes the sign (either 's'
for signed or 'u' for unsigned), 'b' denotes the number of bits per sample (16, 24 or 32)
and 'e' denotes the endianness ('le' means little-endian, 'be' big-endian and 'ne' the
endianness of the computer MPlayer is running on). Valid values (amongst others) are:
's16le', 'u32be' and 'u24ne'. Exceptions to this rule that are also valid format
specifiers: u8, s8, floatle, floatbe, floatne, mulaw, alaw, mpeg2, ac3 and imaadpcm.
volume[=v[:sc]]
Implements software volume control. Use this filter with caution since it can reduce the signal to
noise ratio of the sound. In most cases it is best to set the level for the PCM sound to max,
leave this filter out and control the output level to your speakers with the master volume control
of the mixer. In case your sound card has a digital PCM mixer instead of an analog one, and you
hear distortion, use the MASTER mixer instead. If there is an external amplifier connected to the
computer (this is almost always the case), the noise level can be minimized by adjusting the
master level and the volume knob on the amplifier until the hissing noise in the background is
gone.
This filter has a second feature: It measures the overall maximum sound level and prints out that
level when MPlayer exits. This feature currently only works with floating-point data, use e.g.
--af-adv=force=5, or use --af=stats.
NOTE: This filter is not reentrant and can therefore only be enabled once for every audio stream.
<v> Sets the desired gain in dB for all channels in the stream from -200dB to +60dB, where
-200dB mutes the sound completely and +60dB equals a gain of 1000 (default: 0).
<sc> Turns soft clipping on (1) or off (0). Soft-clipping can make the sound more smooth if very
high volume levels are used. Enable this option if the dynamic range of the loudspeakers is
very low.
WARNING: This feature creates distortion and should be considered a last resort.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=volume=10.1:0 media.avi
Would amplify the sound by 10.1dB and hard-clip if the sound level is too high.
pan=n[:L00:L01:L02:...L10:L11:L12:...Ln0:Ln1:Ln2:...]
Mixes channels arbitrarily. Basically a combination of the volume and the channels filter that can
be used to down-mix many channels to only a few, e.g. stereo to mono or vary the "width" of the
center speaker in a surround sound system. This filter is hard to use, and will require some
tinkering before the desired result is obtained. The number of options for this filter depends on
the number of output channels. An example how to downmix a six-channel file to two channels with
this filter can be found in the examples section near the end.
<n> number of output channels (1-8)
<Lij> How much of input channel i is mixed into output channel j (0-1). So in principle you first
have n numbers saying what to do with the first input channel, then n numbers that act on
the second input channel etc. If you do not specify any numbers for some input channels, 0
is assumed.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=pan=1:0.5:0.5 media.avi
Would down-mix from stereo to mono.
mplayer --af=pan=3:1:0:0.5:0:1:0.5 media.avi
Would give 3 channel output leaving channels 0 and 1 intact, and mix channels 0 and 1 into
output channel 2 (which could be sent to a subwoofer for example).
sub[=fc:ch]
Adds a subwoofer channel to the audio stream. The audio data used for creating the subwoofer
channel is an average of the sound in channel 0 and channel 1. The resulting sound is then
low-pass filtered by a 4th order Butterworth filter with a default cutoff frequency of 60Hz and
added to a separate channel in the audio stream.
Warning: Disable this filter when you are playing DVDs with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, otherwise
this filter will disrupt the sound to the subwoofer.
<fc> cutoff frequency in Hz for the low-pass filter (20Hz to 300Hz) (default: 60Hz) For the best
result try setting the cutoff frequency as low as possible. This will improve the stereo or
surround sound experience.
<ch> Determines the channel number in which to insert the sub-channel audio. Channel number can
be between 0 and 7 (default: 5). Observe that the number of channels will automatically be
increased to <ch> if necessary.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=sub=100:4 --channels=5 media.avi
Would add a sub-woofer channel with a cutoff frequency of 100Hz to output channel 4.
center Creates a center channel from the front channels. May currently be low quality as it does not
implement a high-pass filter for proper extraction yet, but averages and halves the channels
instead.
<ch> Determines the channel number in which to insert the center channel. Channel number can be
between 0 and 7 (default: 5). Observe that the number of channels will automatically be
increased to <ch> if necessary.
surround[=delay]
Decoder for matrix encoded surround sound like Dolby Surround. Many files with 2 channel audio
actually contain matrixed surround sound. Requires a sound card supporting at least 4 channels.
<delay>
delay time in ms for the rear speakers (0 to 1000) (default: 20) This delay should be set
as follows: If d1 is the distance from the listening position to the front speakers and d2
is the distance from the listening position to the rear speakers, then the delay should be
set to 15ms if d1 <= d2 and to 15 + 5*(d1-d2) if d1 > d2.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=surround=15 --channels=4 media.avi
Would add surround sound decoding with 15ms delay for the sound to the rear speakers.
delay[=ch1:ch2:...]
Delays the sound to the loudspeakers such that the sound from the different channels arrives at
the listening position simultaneously. It is only useful if you have more than 2 loudspeakers.
ch1,ch2,...
The delay in ms that should be imposed on each channel (floating point number between 0 and
1000).
To calculate the required delay for the different channels do as follows:
1. Measure the distance to the loudspeakers in meters in relation to your listening position,
giving you the distances s1 to s5 (for a 5.1 system). There is no point in compensating for the
subwoofer (you will not hear the difference anyway).
2. Subtract the distances s1 to s5 from the maximum distance, i.e. s[i] = max(s) - s[i]; i =
1...5.
3. Calculate the required delays in ms as d[i] = 1000*s[i]/342; i = 1...5.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=delay=10.5:10.5:0:0:7:0 media.avi
Would delay front left and right by 10.5ms, the two rear channels and the sub by 0ms and
the center channel by 7ms.
export[=mmapped_file[:nsamples]]
Exports the incoming signal to other processes using memory mapping (mmap()). Memory mapped areas
contain a header:
int nch /* number of channels */
int size /* buffer size */
unsigned long long counter /* Used to keep sync, updated every time new data is exported. */
The rest is payload (non-interleaved) 16 bit data.
<mmapped_file>
file to map data to (default: ~/.mplayer/mplayer-af_export)
<nsamples>
number of samples per channel (default: 512)
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=export=/tmp/mplayer-af_export:1024 media.avi
Would export 1024 samples per channel to /tmp/mplayer-af_export.
extrastereo[=mul]
(Linearly) increases the difference between left and right channels which adds some sort of "live"
effect to playback.
<mul> Sets the difference coefficient (default: 2.5). 0.0 means mono sound (average of both
channels), with 1.0 sound will be unchanged, with -1.0 left and right channels will be
swapped.
volnorm[=method:target]
Maximizes the volume without distorting the sound.
<method>
Sets the used method.
1 Use a single sample to smooth the variations via the standard weighted mean over
past samples (default).
2 Use several samples to smooth the variations via the standard weighted mean over
past samples.
<target>
Sets the target amplitude as a fraction of the maximum for the sample type (default: 0.25).
ladspa=file:label[:controls...]
Load a LADSPA (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API) plugin. This filter is reentrant, so
multiple LADSPA plugins can be used at once.
<file> Specifies the LADSPA plugin library file. If LADSPA_PATH is set, it searches for the
specified file. If it is not set, you must supply a fully specified pathname.
<label>
Specifies the filter within the library. Some libraries contain only one filter, but others
contain many of them. Entering 'help' here, will list all available filters within the
specified library, which eliminates the use of 'listplugins' from the LADSPA SDK.
<controls>
Controls are zero or more floating point values that determine the behavior of the loaded
plugin (for example delay, threshold or gain). In verbose mode (add -v to the MPlayer
command line), all available controls and their valid ranges are printed. This eliminates
the use of 'analyseplugin' from the LADSPA SDK.
comp Compressor/expander filter usable for microphone input. Prevents artifacts on very loud sound and
raises the volume on very low sound. This filter is untested, maybe even unusable.
gate Noise gate filter similar to the comp audio filter. This filter is untested, maybe even unusable.
karaoke
Simple voice removal filter exploiting the fact that voice is usually recorded with mono gear and
later 'center' mixed onto the final audio stream. Beware that this filter will turn your signal
into mono. Works well for 2 channel tracks; do not bother trying it on anything but 2 channel
stereo.
scaletempo[=option1:option2:...]
Scales audio tempo without altering pitch, optionally synced to playback speed (default).
This works by playing 'stride' ms of audio at normal speed then consuming 'stride*scale' ms of
input audio. It pieces the strides together by blending 'overlap'% of stride with audio following
the previous stride. It optionally performs a short statistical analysis on the next 'search' ms
of audio to determine the best overlap position.
scale=<amount>
Nominal amount to scale tempo. Scales this amount in addition to speed. (default: 1.0)
stride=<amount>
Length in milliseconds to output each stride. Too high of value will cause noticable skips
at high scale amounts and an echo at low scale amounts. Very low values will alter pitch.
Increasing improves performance. (default: 60)
overlap=<percent>
Percentage of stride to overlap. Decreasing improves performance. (default: .20)
search=<amount>
Length in milliseconds to search for best overlap position. Decreasing improves performance
greatly. On slow systems, you will probably want to set this very low. (default: 14)
speed=<tempo|pitch|both|none>
Set response to speed change.
tempo Scale tempo in sync with speed (default).
pitch Reverses effect of filter. Scales pitch without altering tempo. Add [ speed_mult
0.9438743126816935 and ] speed_mult 1.059463094352953 to your input.conf to step by
musical semi-tones.
WARNING: Loses sync with video.
both Scale both tempo and pitch.
none Ignore speed changes.
EXAMPLE:
mplayer --af=scaletempo --speed=1.2 media.ogg
Would playback media at 1.2x normal speed, with audio at normal pitch. Changing playback
speed, would change audio tempo to match.
mplayer --af=scaletempo=scale=1.2:speed=none --speed=1.2 media.ogg
Would playback media at 1.2x normal speed, with audio at normal pitch, but changing
playback speed has no effect on audio tempo.
mplayer --af=scaletempo=stride=30:overlap=.50:search=10 media.ogg
Would tweak the quality and performace parameters.
mplayer --af=format=floatne,scaletempo media.ogg
Would make scaletempo use float code. Maybe faster on some platforms.
mplayer --af=scaletempo=scale=1.2:speed=pitch audio.ogg
Would playback audio file at 1.2x normal speed, with audio at normal pitch. Changing
playback speed, would change pitch, leaving audio tempo at 1.2x.
stats Collects and prints statistics about the audio stream, especially the volume. These statistics are
especially intended to help adjusting the volume while avoiding clipping. The volumes are printed
in dB and compatible with the volume audio filter.
VIDEO FILTERS
Video filters allow you to modify the video stream and its properties. The syntax is:
--vf=<filter1[=parameter1:parameter2:...],filter2,...>
Setup a chain of video filters.
Many parameters are optional and set to default values if omitted. To explicitly use a default value set
a parameter to '-1'. Parameters w:h means width x height in pixels, x:y means x;y position counted from
the upper left corner of the bigger image.
NOTE: To get a full list of available video filters, see --vf=help.
Video filters are managed in lists. There are a few commands to manage the filter list.
--vf-add=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
Appends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.
--vf-pre=<filter1[,filter2,...]>
Prepends the filters given as arguments to the filter list.
--vf-del=<index1[,index2,...]>
Deletes the filters at the given indexes. Index numbers start at 0, negative numbers address the
end of the list (-1 is the last).
--vf-clr
Completely empties the filter list.
With filters that support it, you can access parameters by their name.
--vf=<filter>=help
Prints the parameter names and parameter value ranges for a particular filter.
--vf=<filter=named_parameter1=value1[:named_parameter2=value2:...]>
Sets a named parameter to the given value. Use on and off or yes and no to set flag parameters.
Available filters are:
crop[=w:h:x:y]
Crops the given part of the image and discards the rest. Useful to remove black bands from
widescreen movies.
<w>,<h>
Cropped width and height, defaults to original width and height.
<x>,<y>
Position of the cropped picture, defaults to center.
cropdetect[=limit:round[:reset]]
Calculates necessary cropping parameters and prints the recommended parameters to stdout.
<limit>
Threshold, which can be optionally specified from nothing (0) to everything (255) (default:
24).
<round>
Value which the width/height should be divisible by (default: 16). The offset is
automatically adjusted to center the video. Use 2 to get only even dimensions (needed for
4:2:2 video). 16 is best when encoding to most video codecs.
<reset>
Counter that determines after how many frames cropdetect will reset the previously detected
largest video area and start over to detect the current optimal crop area (default: 0).
This can be useful when channel logos distort the video area. 0 indicates never reset and
return the largest area encountered during playback.
rectangle[=w:h:x:y]
Draws a rectangle of the requested width and height at the specified coordinates over the image
and prints current rectangle parameters to the console. This can be used to find optimal cropping
parameters. If you bind the input.conf directive 'change_rectangle' to keystrokes, you can move
and resize the rectangle on the fly.
<w>,<h>
width and height (default: -1, maximum possible width where boundaries are still visible.)
<x>,<y>
top left corner position (default: -1, uppermost leftmost)
expand[=w:h:x:y:osd:aspect:round]
Expands (not scales) movie resolution to the given value and places the unscaled original at
coordinates x, y. Can be used for placing subtitles/OSD in the resulting black bands.
<w>,<h>
Expanded width,height (default: original width,height). Negative values for w and h are
treated as offsets to the original size.
EXAMPLE:
expand=0:-50:0:0
Adds a 50 pixel border to the bottom of the picture.
<x>,<y>
position of original image on the expanded image (default: center)
<osd> OSD/subtitle rendering
0 disable (default)
1 enable
<aspect>
Expands to fit an aspect instead of a resolution (default: 0).
EXAMPLE:
expand=800:::::4/3
Expands to 800x600, unless the source is higher resolution, in which case it expands
to fill a 4/3 aspect.
<round>
Rounds up to make both width and height divisible by <r> (default: 1).
flip Flips the image upside down. See also --flip.
mirror Mirrors the image on the Y axis.
rotate[=<0-7>]
Rotates the image by 90 degrees and optionally flips it. For values between 4-7 rotation is only
done if the movie geometry is portrait and not landscape.
0 Rotate by 90 degrees clockwise and flip (default).
1 Rotate by 90 degrees clockwise.
2 Rotate by 90 degrees counterclockwise.
3 Rotate by 90 degrees counterclockwise and flip.
scale[=w:h[:interlaced[:chr_drop[:par[:par2[:presize[:noup[:arnd]]]]]]]]
Scales the image with the software scaler (slow) and performs a YUV<->RGB colorspace conversion
(see also --sws).
<w>,<h>
scaled width/height (default: original width/height)
NOTE: If --zoom is used, and underlying filters (including libvo) are incapable of scaling,
it defaults to d_width/d_height!
0 scaled d_width/d_height
-1 original width/height
-2 Calculate w/h using the other dimension and the prescaled aspect ratio.
-3 Calculate w/h using the other dimension and the original aspect ratio.
-(n+8) Like -n above, but rounding the dimension to the closest multiple of 16.
<interlaced>
Toggle interlaced scaling.
0 off (default)
1 on
<chr_drop>
chroma skipping
0 Use all available input lines for chroma.
1 Use only every 2. input line for chroma.
2 Use only every 4. input line for chroma.
3 Use only every 8. input line for chroma.
<par>[:<par2>] (see also --sws)
Set some scaling parameters depending on the type of scaler selected with --sws.
--sws=2 (bicubic): B (blurring) and C (ringing)
0.00:0.60 default
0.00:0.75 VirtualDub's "precise bicubic"
0.00:0.50 Catmull-Rom spline
0.33:0.33 Mitchell-Netravali spline
1.00:0.00 cubic B-spline
--sws=7 (gaussian): sharpness (0 (soft) - 100 (sharp))
--sws=9 (lanczos): filter length (1-10)
<presize>
Scale to preset sizes.
qntsc 352x240 (NTSC quarter screen)
qpal 352x288 (PAL quarter screen)
ntsc 720x480 (standard NTSC)
pal 720x576 (standard PAL)
sntsc 640x480 (square pixel NTSC)
spal 768x576 (square pixel PAL)
<noup> Disallow upscaling past the original dimensions.
0 Allow upscaling (default).
1 Disallow upscaling if one dimension exceeds its original value.
2 Disallow upscaling if both dimensions exceed their original values.
<arnd> Accurate rounding for the vertical scaler, which may be faster or slower than the default
rounding.
0 Disable accurate rounding (default).
1 Enable accurate rounding.
dsize[=aspect|w:h:aspect-method:r]
Changes the intended display size/aspect at an arbitrary point in the filter chain. Aspect can be
given as a fraction (4/3) or floating point number (1.33). Alternatively, you may specify the
exact display width and height desired. Note that this filter does not do any scaling itself; it
just affects what later scalers (software or hardware) will do when auto-scaling to correct
aspect.
<w>,<h>
New display width and height.
Can also be these special values:
0 original display width and height
-1 original video width and height (default)
-2 Calculate w/h using the other dimension and the original display aspect ratio.
-3 Calculate w/h using the other dimension and the original video aspect ratio.
EXAMPLE:
dsize=800:-2
Specifies a display resolution of 800x600 for a 4/3 aspect video, or 800x450 for a
16/9 aspect video.
<aspect-method>
Modifies width and height according to original aspect ratios.
-1 Ignore original aspect ratio (default).
0 Keep display aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as maximum resolution.
1 Keep display aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as minimum resolution.
2 Keep video aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as maximum resolution.
3 Keep video aspect ratio by using <w> and <h> as minimum resolution.
EXAMPLE:
dsize=800:600:0
Specifies a display resolution of at most 800x600, or smaller, in order to keep
aspect.
<r> Rounds up to make both width and height divisible by <r> (default: 1).
yvu9 Forces software YVU9 to YV12 colorspace conversion. Deprecated in favor of the software scaler.
yuvcsp Clamps YUV color values to the CCIR 601 range without doing real conversion.
palette
RGB/BGR 8 -> 15/16/24/32bpp colorspace conversion using palette.
format[=fourcc[:outfourcc]]
Restricts the colorspace for the next filter without doing any conversion. Use together with the
scale filter for a real conversion.
NOTE: For a list of available formats see format=fmt=help.
<fourcc>
format name like rgb15, bgr24, yv12, etc (default: yuy2)
<outfourcc>
Format name that should be substituted for the output. If this is not 100% compatible with
the <fourcc> value it will crash.
EXAMPLE
┌───────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│Valid │ Invalid (will crash) │
├───────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│format=rgb24:bgr24 │ format=rgb24:yv12 │
├───────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│format=yuyv:yuy2 │ │
└───────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
noformat[=fourcc]
Restricts the colorspace for the next filter without doing any conversion. Unlike the format
filter, this will allow any colorspace except the one you specify.
NOTE: For a list of available formats see noformat=fmt=help.
<fourcc>
format name like rgb15, bgr24, yv12, etc (default: yv12)
pp[=filter1[:option1[:option2...]]/[-]filter2...]
Enables the specified chain of postprocessing subfilters. Subfilters must be separated by '/' and
can be disabled by prepending a '-'. Each subfilter and some options have a short and a long name
that can be used interchangeably, i.e. dr/dering are the same. All subfilters share common options
to determine their scope:
a/autoq
Automatically switch the subfilter off if the CPU is too slow.
c/chrom
Do chrominance filtering, too (default).
y/nochrom
Do luminance filtering only (no chrominance).
n/noluma
Do chrominance filtering only (no luminance).
NOTE: --pphelp shows a list of available subfilters.
Available subfilters are:
hb/hdeblock[:difference[:flatness]]
horizontal deblocking filter
<difference>
Difference factor where higher values mean more deblocking (default: 32).
<flatness>
Flatness threshold where lower values mean more deblocking (default: 39).
vb/vdeblock[:difference[:flatness]]
vertical deblocking filter
<difference>
Difference factor where higher values mean more deblocking (default: 32).
<flatness>
Flatness threshold where lower values mean more deblocking (default: 39).
ha/hadeblock[:difference[:flatness]]
accurate horizontal deblocking filter
<difference>
Difference factor where higher values mean more deblocking (default: 32).
<flatness>
Flatness threshold where lower values mean more deblocking (default: 39).
va/vadeblock[:difference[:flatness]]
accurate vertical deblocking filter
<difference>
Difference factor where higher values mean more deblocking (default: 32).
<flatness>
Flatness threshold where lower values mean more deblocking (default: 39).
The horizontal and vertical deblocking filters share the difference and flatness values so you
cannot set different horizontal and vertical thresholds.
h1/x1hdeblock
experimental horizontal deblocking filter
v1/x1vdeblock
experimental vertical deblocking filter
dr/dering
deringing filter
tn/tmpnoise[:threshold1[:threshold2[:threshold3]]]
temporal noise reducer
<threshold1>
larger -> stronger filtering
<threshold2>
larger -> stronger filtering
<threshold3>
larger -> stronger filtering
al/autolevels[:f/fullyrange]
automatic brightness / contrast correction
f/fullyrange
Stretch luminance to (0-255).
lb/linblenddeint
Linear blend deinterlacing filter that deinterlaces the given block by filtering all lines
with a (1 2 1) filter.
li/linipoldeint
Linear interpolating deinterlacing filter that deinterlaces the given block by linearly
interpolating every second line.
ci/cubicipoldeint
Cubic interpolating deinterlacing filter deinterlaces the given block by cubically
interpolating every second line.
md/mediandeint
Median deinterlacing filter that deinterlaces the given block by applying a median filter
to every second line.
fd/ffmpegdeint
FFmpeg deinterlacing filter that deinterlaces the given block by filtering every second
line with a (-1 4 2 4 -1) filter.
l5/lowpass5
Vertically applied FIR lowpass deinterlacing filter that deinterlaces the given block by
filtering all lines with a (-1 2 6 2 -1) filter.
fq/forceQuant[:quantizer]
Overrides the quantizer table from the input with the constant quantizer you specify.
<quantizer>
quantizer to use
de/default
default pp filter combination (hb:a,vb:a,dr:a)
fa/fast
fast pp filter combination (h1:a,v1:a,dr:a)
ac high quality pp filter combination (ha:a:128:7,va:a,dr:a)
EXAMPLE:
--vf=pp=hb/vb/dr/al
horizontal and vertical deblocking, deringing and automatic brightness/contrast
--vf=pp=de/-al
default filters without brightness/contrast correction
--vf=pp=default/tmpnoise:1:2:3
Enable default filters & temporal denoiser.
--vf=pp=hb:y/vb:a
Horizontal deblocking on luminance only, and switch vertical deblocking on or off
automatically depending on available CPU time.
spp[=quality[:qp[:mode]]]
Simple postprocessing filter that compresses and decompresses the image at several (or - in the
case of quality level 6 - all) shifts and averages the results.
<quality>
0-6 (default: 3)
<qp> Force quantization parameter (default: 0, use QP from video).
<mode>
0 hard thresholding (default)
1 soft thresholding (better deringing, but blurrier)
4 like 0, but also use B-frames' QP (may cause flicker)
5 like 1, but also use B-frames' QP (may cause flicker)
uspp[=quality[:qp]]
Ultra simple & slow postprocessing filter that compresses and decompresses the image at several
(or - in the case of quality level 8 - all) shifts and averages the results.
The way this differs from the behavior of spp is that uspp actually encodes & decodes each case
with libavcodec Snow, whereas spp uses a simplified intra only 8x8 DCT similar to MJPEG.
<quality>
0-8 (default: 3)
<qp> Force quantization parameter (default: 0, use QP from video).
fspp[=quality[:qp[:strength[:bframes]]]]
faster version of the simple postprocessing filter
<quality>
4-5 (equivalent to spp; default: 4)
<qp> Force quantization parameter (default: 0, use QP from video).
<-15-32>
Filter strength, lower values mean more details but also more artifacts, while higher
values make the image smoother but also blurrier (default: 0 - PSNR optimal).
<bframes>
0: do not use QP from B-frames (default) 1: use QP from B-frames too (may cause flicker)
pp7[=qp[:mode]]
Variant of the spp filter, similar to spp=6 with 7 point DCT where only the center sample is used
after IDCT.
<qp> Force quantization parameter (default: 0, use QP from video).
<mode>
0 hard thresholding
1 soft thresholding (better deringing, but blurrier)
2 medium thresholding (default, good results)
qp=equation
quantization parameter (QP) change filter
<equation>
some equation like 2+2*sin(PI*qp)
geq=equation
generic equation change filter
<equation>
Some equation, e.g. p(W-X\,Y) to flip the image horizontally. You can use whitespace to
make the equation more readable. There are a couple of constants that can be used in the
equation:
PI the number pi
E the number e
X / Y the coordinates of the current sample
W / H width and height of the image
SW / SH
width/height scale depending on the currently filtered plane, e.g. 1,1 and 0.5,0.5
for YUV 4:2:0.
p(x,y) returns the value of the pixel at location x/y of the current plane.
test Generate various test patterns.
rgbtest[=width:height]
Generate an RGB test pattern useful for detecting RGB vs BGR issues. You should see a red, green
and blue stripe from top to bottom.
<width>
Desired width of generated image (default: 0). 0 means width of input image.
<height>
Desired height of generated image (default: 0). 0 means height of input image.
lavc[=quality:fps]
Fast software YV12 to MPEG-1 conversion with libavcodec for use with DVB/DXR3/IVTV/V4L2.
<quality>
1-31 fixed qscale
32- fixed bitrate in kbits
<fps> force output fps (float value) (default: 0, autodetect based on height)
dvbscale[=aspect]
Set up optimal scaling for DVB cards, scaling the x axis in hardware and calculating the y axis
scaling in software to keep aspect. Only useful together with expand and scale.
<aspect>
Control aspect ratio, calculate as DVB_HEIGHT*ASPECTRATIO (default: 576*4/3=768), set it to
576*(16/9)=1024 for a 16:9 TV.
EXAMPLE:
--vf=dvbscale,scale=-1:0,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,lavc
FIXME: Explain what this does.
noise[=luma[u][t|a][h][p]:chroma[u][t|a][h][p]]
Adds noise.
<0-100>
luma noise
<0-100>
chroma noise
u uniform noise (gaussian otherwise)
t temporal noise (noise pattern changes between frames)
a averaged temporal noise (smoother, but a lot slower)
h high quality (slightly better looking, slightly slower)
p mix random noise with a (semi)regular pattern
denoise3d[=luma_spatial:chroma_spatial:luma_tmp:chroma_tmp]
This filter aims to reduce image noise producing smooth images and making still images really
still (This should enhance compressibility.).
<luma_spatial>
spatial luma strength (default: 4)
<chroma_spatial>
spatial chroma strength (default: 3)
<luma_tmp>
luma temporal strength (default: 6)
<chroma_tmp>
chroma temporal strength (default: luma_tmp*chroma_spatial/luma_spatial)
hqdn3d[=luma_spatial:chroma_spatial:luma_tmp:chroma_tmp]
High precision/quality version of the denoise3d filter. Parameters and usage are the same.
ow[=depth[:luma_strength[:chroma_strength]]]
Overcomplete Wavelet denoiser.
<depth>
Larger depth values will denoise lower frequency components more, but slow down filtering
(default: 8).
<luma_strength>
luma strength (default: 1.0)
<chroma_strength>
chroma strength (default: 1.0)
eq[=brightness:contrast] (OBSOLETE)
Software equalizer with interactive controls just like the hardware equalizer, for cards/drivers
that do not support brightness and contrast controls in hardware.
<-100-100>
initial brightness
<-100-100>
initial contrast
eq2[=gamma:contrast:brightness:saturation:rg:gg:bg:weight]
Alternative software equalizer that uses lookup tables (very slow), allowing gamma correction in
addition to simple brightness and contrast adjustment. Note that it uses the same MMX optimized
code as --vf=eq if all gamma values are 1.0. The parameters are given as floating point values.
<0.1-10>
initial gamma value (default: 1.0)
<-2-2> initial contrast, where negative values result in a negative image (default: 1.0)
<-1-1> initial brightness (default: 0.0)
<0-3> initial saturation (default: 1.0)
<0.1-10>
gamma value for the red component (default: 1.0)
<0.1-10>
gamma value for the green component (default: 1.0)
<0.1-10>
gamma value for the blue component (default: 1.0)
<0-1> The weight parameter can be used to reduce the effect of a high gamma value on bright image
areas, e.g. keep them from getting overamplified and just plain white. A value of 0.0 turns
the gamma correction all the way down while 1.0 leaves it at its full strength (default:
1.0).
hue[=hue:saturation]
Software equalizer with interactive controls just like the hardware equalizer, for cards/drivers
that do not support hue and saturation controls in hardware.
<-180-180>
initial hue (default: 0.0)
<-100-100>
initial saturation, where negative values result in a negative chroma (default: 1.0)
halfpack[=f]
Convert planar YUV 4:2:0 to half-height packed 4:2:2, downsampling luma but keeping all chroma
samples. Useful for output to low-resolution display devices when hardware downscaling is poor
quality or is not available. Can also be used as a primitive luma-only deinterlacer with very low
CPU usage.
<f> By default, halfpack averages pairs of lines when downsampling. Any value different from 0
or 1 gives the default (averaging) behavior.
0 Only use even lines when downsampling.
1 Only use odd lines when downsampling.
ilpack[=mode]
When interlaced video is stored in YUV 4:2:0 formats, chroma interlacing does not line up properly
due to vertical downsampling of the chroma channels. This filter packs the planar 4:2:0 data into
YUY2 (4:2:2) format with the chroma lines in their proper locations, so that in any given
scanline, the luma and chroma data both come from the same field.
<mode> Select the sampling mode.
0 nearest-neighbor sampling, fast but incorrect
1 linear interpolation (default)
decimate[=max:hi:lo:frac]
Drops frames that do not differ greatly from the previous frame in order to reduce framerate. The
main use of this filter is for very-low- bitrate encoding (e.g. streaming over dialup modem), but
it could in theory be used for fixing movies that were inverse-telecined incorrectly.
<max> Sets the maximum number of consecutive frames which can be dropped (if positive), or the
minimum interval between dropped frames (if negative).
<hi>,<lo>,<frac>
A frame is a candidate for dropping if no 8x8 region differs by more than a threshold of
<hi>, and if not more than <frac> portion (1 meaning the whole image) differs by more than
a threshold of <lo>. Values of <hi> and <lo> are for 8x8 pixel blocks and represent actual
pixel value differences, so a threshold of 64 corresponds to 1 unit of difference for each
pixel, or the same spread out differently over the block.
dint[=sense:level]
The drop-deinterlace (dint) filter detects and drops the first from a set of interlaced video
frames.
<0.0-1.0>
relative difference between neighboring pixels (default: 0.1)
<0.0-1.0>
What part of the image has to be detected as interlaced to drop the frame (default: 0.15).
lavcdeint (OBSOLETE)
FFmpeg deinterlacing filter, same as --vf=pp=fd
kerndeint[=thresh[:map[:order[:sharp[:twoway]]]]]
Donald Graft's adaptive kernel deinterlacer. Deinterlaces parts of a video if a configurable
threshold is exceeded.
<0-255>
threshold (default: 10)
<map>
0 Ignore pixels exceeding the threshold (default).
1 Paint pixels exceeding the threshold white.
<order>
0 Leave fields alone (default).
1 Swap fields.
<sharp>
0 Disable additional sharpening (default).
1 Enable additional sharpening.
<twoway>
0 Disable twoway sharpening (default).
1 Enable twoway sharpening.
unsharp[=l|cWxH:amount[:l|cWxH:amount]]
unsharp mask / gaussian blur
l Apply effect on luma component.
c Apply effect on chroma components.
<width>x<height>
width and height of the matrix, odd sized in both directions (min = 3x3, max = 13x11 or
11x13, usually something between 3x3 and 7x7)
amount Relative amount of sharpness/blur to add to the image (a sane range should be -1.5-1.5).
<0 blur
>0 sharpen
swapuv Swap U & V plane.
il[=d|i][s][:[d|i][s]]
(De)interleaves lines. The goal of this filter is to add the ability to process interlaced images
pre-field without deinterlacing them. You can filter your interlaced DVD and play it on a TV
without breaking the interlacing. While deinterlacing (with the postprocessing filter) removes
interlacing permanently (by smoothing, averaging, etc) deinterleaving splits the frame into 2
fields (so called half pictures), so you can process (filter) them independently and then
re-interleave them.
d deinterleave (placing one above the other)
i interleave
s swap fields (exchange even & odd lines)
fil[=i|d]
(De)interleaves lines. This filter is very similar to the il filter but much faster, the main
disadvantage is that it does not always work. Especially if combined with other filters it may
produce randomly messed up images, so be happy if it works but do not complain if it does not for
your combination of filters.
d Deinterleave fields, placing them side by side.
i Interleave fields again (reversing the effect of fil=d).
field[=n]
Extracts a single field from an interlaced image using stride arithmetic to avoid wasting CPU
time. The optional argument n specifies whether to extract the even or the odd field (depending on
whether n is even or odd).
detc[=var1=value1:var2=value2:...]
Attempts to reverse the 'telecine' process to recover a clean, non-interlaced stream at film
framerate. This was the first and most primitive inverse telecine filter to be added to MPlayer.
It works by latching onto the telecine 3:2 pattern and following it as long as possible. This
makes it suitable for perfectly-telecined material, even in the presence of a fair degree of
noise, but it will fail in the presence of complex post-telecine edits. Development on this filter
is no longer taking place, as ivtc, pullup, and filmdint are better for most applications. The
following arguments (see syntax above) may be used to control detc's behavior:
<dr> Set the frame dropping mode.
0 Do not drop frames to maintain fixed output framerate (default).
1 Always drop a frame when there have been no drops or telecine merges in the past 5
frames.
2 Always maintain exact 5:4 input to output frame ratio.
<am> Analysis mode.
0 Fixed pattern with initial frame number specified by <fr>.
1 aggressive search for telecine pattern (default)
<fr> Set initial frame number in sequence. 0-2 are the three clean progressive frames; 3 and 4
are the two interlaced frames. The default, -1, means 'not in telecine sequence'. The
number specified here is the type for the imaginary previous frame before the movie starts.
<t0>, <t1>, <t2>, <t3>
Threshold values to be used in certain modes.
ivtc[=1]
Experimental 'stateless' inverse telecine filter. Rather than trying to lock on to a pattern like
the detc filter does, ivtc makes its decisions independently for each frame. This will give much
better results for material that has undergone heavy editing after telecine was applied, but as a
result it is not as forgiving of noisy input, for example TV capture. The optional parameter
(ivtc=1) corresponds to the dr=1 option for the detc filter, and should not be used with MPlayer.
Further development on ivtc has stopped, as the pullup and filmdint filters appear to be much more
accurate.
pullup[=jl:jr:jt:jb:sb:mp]
Third-generation pulldown reversal (inverse telecine) filter, capable of handling mixed
hard-telecine, 24000/1001 fps progressive, and 30000/1001 fps progressive content. The pullup
filter is designed to be much more robust than detc or ivtc, by taking advantage of future context
in making its decisions. Like ivtc, pullup is stateless in the sense that it does not lock onto a
pattern to follow, but it instead looks forward to the following fields in order to identify
matches and rebuild progressive frames. It is still under development, but believed to be quite
accurate.
jl, jr, jt, and jb
These options set the amount of "junk" to ignore at the left, right, top, and bottom of the
image, respectively. Left/right are in units of 8 pixels, while top/bottom are in units of
2 lines. The default is 8 pixels on each side.
sb (strict breaks)
Setting this option to 1 will reduce the chances of pullup generating an occasional
mismatched frame, but it may also cause an excessive number of frames to be dropped during
high motion sequences. Conversely, setting it to -1 will make pullup match fields more
easily. This may help processing of video where there is slight blurring between the
fields, but may also cause there to be interlaced frames in the output.
mp (metric plane)
This option may be set to 1 or 2 to use a chroma plane instead of the luma plane for doing
pullup's computations. This may improve accuracy on very clean source material, but more
likely will decrease accuracy, especially if there is chroma noise (rainbow effect) or any
grayscale video. The main purpose of setting mp to a chroma plane is to reduce CPU load and
make pullup usable in realtime on slow machines.
filmdint[=options]
Inverse telecine filter, similar to the pullup filter above. It is designed to handle any pulldown
pattern, including mixed soft and hard telecine and limited support for movies that are slowed
down or sped up from their original framerate for TV. Only the luma plane is used to find the
frame breaks. If a field has no match, it is deinterlaced with simple linear approximation. If the
source is MPEG-2, this must be the first filter to allow access to the field-flags set by the
MPEG-2 decoder. Depending on the source MPEG, you may be fine ignoring this advice, as long as
you do not see lots of "Bottom-first field" warnings. With no options it does normal inverse
telecine. When this filter is used with MPlayer, it will result in an uneven framerate during
playback, but it is still generally better than using pp=lb or no deinterlacing at all. Multiple
options can be specified separated by /.
crop=<w>:<h>:<x>:<y>
Just like the crop filter, but faster, and works on mixed hard and soft telecined content
as well as when y is not a multiple of 4. If x or y would require cropping fractional
pixels from the chroma planes, the crop area is extended. This usually means that x and y
must be even.
io=<ifps>:<ofps>
For each ifps input frames the filter will output ofps frames. This could be used to filter
movies that are broadcast on TV at a frame rate different from their original framerate.
luma_only=<n>
If n is nonzero, the chroma plane is copied unchanged. This is useful for YV12 sampled TV,
which discards one of the chroma fields.
mmx2=<n>
On x86, if n=1, use MMX2 optimized functions, if n=2, use 3DNow! optimized functions,
otherwise, use plain C. If this option is not specified, MMX2 and 3DNow! are auto-detected,
use this option to override auto-detection.
fast=<n>
The larger n will speed up the filter at the expense of accuracy. The default value is n=3.
If n is odd, a frame immediately following a frame marked with the REPEAT_FIRST_FIELD MPEG
flag is assumed to be progressive, thus filter will not spend any time on soft-telecined
MPEG-2 content. This is the only effect of this flag if MMX2 or 3DNow! is available.
Without MMX2 and 3DNow, if n=0 or 1, the same calculations will be used as with n=2 or 3.
If n=2 or 3, the number of luma levels used to find the frame breaks is reduced from 256 to
128, which results in a faster filter without losing much accuracy. If n=4 or 5, a faster,
but much less accurate metric will be used to find the frame breaks, which is more likely
to misdetect high vertical detail as interlaced content.
verbose=<n>
If n is nonzero, print the detailed metrics for each frame. Useful for debugging.
dint_thres=<n>
Deinterlace threshold. Used during de-interlacing of unmatched frames. Larger value means
less deinterlacing, use n=256 to completely turn off deinterlacing. Default is n=8.
comb_thres=<n>
Threshold for comparing a top and bottom fields. Defaults to 128.
diff_thres=<n>
Threshold to detect temporal change of a field. Default is 128.
sad_thres=<n>
Sum of Absolute Difference threshold, default is 64.
divtc[=options]
Inverse telecine for deinterlaced video. If 3:2-pulldown telecined video has lost one of the
fields or is deinterlaced using a method that keeps one field and interpolates the other, the
result is a juddering video that has every fourth frame duplicated. This filter is intended to
find and drop those duplicates and restore the original film framerate. Two different modes are
available: One pass mode is the default and is straightforward to use, but has the disadvantage
that any changes in the telecine phase (lost frames or bad edits) cause momentary judder until the
filter can resync again. Two pass mode avoids this by analyzing the whole video beforehand so it
will have forward knowledge about the phase changes and can resync at the exact spot. These passes
do not correspond to pass one and two of the encoding process. You must run an extra pass using
divtc pass one before the actual encoding throwing the resulting video away. Use --nosound
--ovc=raw -o /dev/null to avoid wasting CPU power for this pass. You may add something like
crop=2:2:0:0 after divtc to speed things up even more. Then use divtc pass two for the actual
encoding. If you use multiple encoder passes, use divtc pass two for all of them. The options are:
pass=1|2
Use two pass mode.
file=<filename>
Set the two pass log filename (default: framediff.log).
threshold=<value>
Set the minimum strength the telecine pattern must have for the filter to believe in it
(default: 0.5). This is used to avoid recognizing false pattern from the parts of the video
that are very dark or very still.
window=<numframes>
Set the number of past frames to look at when searching for pattern (default: 30). Longer
window improves the reliability of the pattern search, but shorter window improves the
reaction time to the changes in the telecine phase. This only affects the one pass mode.
The two pass mode currently uses fixed window that extends to both future and past.
phase=0|1|2|3|4
Sets the initial telecine phase for one pass mode (default: 0). The two pass mode can see
the future, so it is able to use the correct phase from the beginning, but one pass mode
can only guess. It catches the correct phase when it finds it, but this option can be used
to fix the possible juddering at the beginning. The first pass of the two pass mode also
uses this, so if you save the output from the first pass, you get constant phase result.
deghost=<value>
Set the deghosting threshold (0-255 for one pass mode, -255-255 for two pass mode, default
0). If nonzero, deghosting mode is used. This is for video that has been deinterlaced by
blending the fields together instead of dropping one of the fields. Deghosting amplifies
any compression artifacts in the blended frames, so the parameter value is used as a
threshold to exclude those pixels from deghosting that differ from the previous frame less
than specified value. If two pass mode is used, then negative value can be used to make the
filter analyze the whole video in the beginning of pass-2 to determine whether it needs
deghosting or not and then select either zero or the absolute value of the parameter.
Specify this option for pass-2, it makes no difference on pass-1.
phase[=t|b|p|a|u|T|B|A|U][:v]
Delay interlaced video by one field time so that the field order changes. The intended use is to
fix PAL movies that have been captured with the opposite field order to the film-to-video
transfer. The options are:
t Capture field order top-first, transfer bottom-first. Filter will delay the bottom field.
b Capture bottom-first, transfer top-first. Filter will delay the top field.
p Capture and transfer with the same field order. This mode only exists for the documentation
of the other options to refer to, but if you actually select it, the filter will faithfully
do nothing ;-)
a Capture field order determined automatically by field flags, transfer opposite. Filter
selects among t and b modes on a frame by frame basis using field flags. If no field
information is available, then this works just like u.
u Capture unknown or varying, transfer opposite. Filter selects among t and b on a frame by
frame basis by analyzing the images and selecting the alternative that produces best match
between the fields.
T Capture top-first, transfer unknown or varying. Filter selects among t and p using image
analysis.
B Capture bottom-first, transfer unknown or varying. Filter selects among b and p using image
analysis.
A Capture determined by field flags, transfer unknown or varying. Filter selects among t, b
and p using field flags and image analysis. If no field information is available, then this
works just like U. This is the default mode.
U Both capture and transfer unknown or varying. Filter selects among t, b and p using image
analysis only.
v Verbose operation. Prints the selected mode for each frame and the average squared
difference between fields for t, b, and p alternatives.
telecine[=start]
Apply 3:2 'telecine' process to increase framerate by 20%. This most likely will not work
correctly with MPlayer. The optional start parameter tells the filter where in the telecine
pattern to start (0-3).
tinterlace[=mode]
Temporal field interlacing - merge pairs of frames into an interlaced frame, halving the
framerate. Even frames are moved into the upper field, odd frames to the lower field. This can be
used to fully reverse the effect of the tfields filter (in mode 0). Available modes are:
0 Move odd frames into the upper field, even into the lower field, generating a full-height
frame at half framerate.
1 Only output odd frames, even frames are dropped; height unchanged.
2 Only output even frames, odd frames are dropped; height unchanged.
3 Expand each frame to full height, but pad alternate lines with black; framerate unchanged.
4 Interleave even lines from even frames with odd lines from odd frames. Height unchanged at
half framerate.
tfields[=mode[:field_dominance]]
Temporal field separation - split fields into frames, doubling the output framerate.
<mode>
0 Leave fields unchanged (will jump/flicker).
1 Interpolate missing lines. (The algorithm used might not be so good.)
2 Translate fields by 1/4 pixel with linear interpolation (no jump).
4 Translate fields by 1/4 pixel with 4tap filter (higher quality) (default).
<field_dominance> (DEPRECATED)
-1 auto (default) Only works if the decoder exports the appropriate information and no
other filters which discard that information come before tfields in the filter
chain, otherwise it falls back to 0 (top field first).
0 top field first
1 bottom field first
NOTE: This option will possibly be removed in a future version. Use --field-dominance
instead.
yadif=[mode[:field_dominance]]
Yet another deinterlacing filter
<mode>
0 Output 1 frame for each frame.
1 Output 1 frame for each field.
2 Like 0 but skips spatial interlacing check.
3 Like 1 but skips spatial interlacing check.
<field_dominance> (DEPRECATED)
Operates like tfields.
NOTE: This option will possibly be removed in a future version. Use --field-dominance
instead.
mcdeint=[mode[:parity[:qp]]]
Motion compensating deinterlacer. It needs one field per frame as input and must thus be used
together with tfields=1 or yadif=1/3 or equivalent.
<mode>
0 fast
1 medium
2 slow, iterative motion estimation
3 extra slow, like 2 plus multiple reference frames
<parity>
0 or 1 selects which field to use (note: no autodetection yet!).
<qp> Higher values should result in a smoother motion vector field but less optimal individual
vectors.
boxblur=radius:power[:radius:power]
box blur
<radius>
blur filter strength
<power>
number of filter applications
sab=radius:pf:colorDiff[:radius:pf:colorDiff]
shape adaptive blur
<radius>
blur filter strength (~0.1-4.0) (slower if larger)
<pf> prefilter strength (~0.1-2.0)
<colorDiff>
maximum difference between pixels to still be considered (~0.1-100.0)
smartblur=radius:strength:threshold[:radius:strength:threshold]
smart blur
<radius>
blur filter strength (~0.1-5.0) (slower if larger)
<strength>
blur (0.0-1.0) or sharpen (-1.0-0.0)
<threshold>
filter all (0), filter flat areas (0-30) or filter edges (-30-0)
perspective=x0:y0:x1:y1:x2:y2:x3:y3:t
Correct the perspective of movies not filmed perpendicular to the screen.
<x0>,<y0>,...
coordinates of the top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right corners
<t> linear (0) or cubic resampling (1)
2xsai Scale and smooth the image with the 2x scale and interpolate algorithm.
1bpp 1bpp bitmap to YUV/BGR 8/15/16/32 conversion
down3dright[=lines]
Reposition and resize stereoscopic images. Extracts both stereo fields and places them side by
side, resizing them to maintain the original movie aspect.
<lines>
number of lines to select from the middle of the image (default: 12)
bmovl=hidden:opaque:fifo
The bitmap overlay filter reads bitmaps from a FIFO and displays them on top of the movie,
allowing some transformations on the image. See also TOOLS/bmovl-test.c for a small bmovl test
program.
<hidden>
Set the default value of the 'hidden' flag (0=visible, 1=hidden).
<opaque>
Set the default value of the 'opaque' flag (0=transparent, 1=opaque).
<fifo> path/filename for the FIFO (named pipe connecting mplayer --vf=bmovl to the controlling
application)
FIFO commands are:
RGBA32 width height xpos ypos alpha clear
followed by width*height*4 Bytes of raw RGBA32 data.
ABGR32 width height xpos ypos alpha clear
followed by width*height*4 Bytes of raw ABGR32 data.
RGB24 width height xpos ypos alpha clear
followed by width*height*3 Bytes of raw RGB24 data.
BGR24 width height xpos ypos alpha clear
followed by width*height*3 Bytes of raw BGR24 data.
ALPHA width height xpos ypos alpha
Change alpha transparency of the specified area.
CLEAR width height xpos ypos
Clear area.
OPAQUE Disable all alpha transparency. Send "ALPHA 0 0 0 0 0" to enable it again.
HIDE Hide bitmap.
SHOW Show bitmap.
Arguments are:
<width>, <height>
image/area size
<xpos>, <ypos>
Start blitting at position x/y.
<alpha>
Set alpha difference. If you set this to -255 you can then send a sequence of
ALPHA-commands to set the area to -225, -200, -175 etc for a nice fade-in-effect! ;)
0 same as original
255 Make everything opaque.
-255 Make everything transparent.
<clear>
Clear the framebuffer before blitting.
0 The image will just be blitted on top of the old one, so you do not need to send
1.8MB of RGBA32 data every time a small part of the screen is updated.
1 clear
framestep=I|[i]step
Renders only every nth frame or every intra frame (keyframe).
If you call the filter with I (uppercase) as the parameter, then only keyframes are rendered. For
DVDs it generally means one in every 15/12 frames (IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB), for AVI it means every scene
change or every keyint value.
When a keyframe is found, an 'I!' string followed by a newline character is printed, leaving the
current line of MPlayer output on the screen, because it contains the time (in seconds) and frame
number of the keyframe (You can use this information to split the AVI.).
If you call the filter with a numeric parameter 'step' then only one in every 'step' frames is
rendered.
If you put an 'i' (lowercase) before the number then an 'I!' is printed (like the I parameter).
If you give only the i then nothing is done to the frames, only I! is printed.
tile=xtiles:ytiles:output:start:delta
Tile a series of images into a single, bigger image. If you omit a parameter or use a value less
than 0, then the default value is used. You can also stop when you are satisfied (...
--vf=tile=10:5 ...). It is probably a good idea to put the scale filter before the tile :-)
The parameters are:
<xtiles>
number of tiles on the x axis (default: 5)
<ytiles>
number of tiles on the y axis (default: 5)
<output>
Render the tile when 'output' number of frames are reached, where 'output' should be a
number less than xtile * ytile. Missing tiles are left blank. You could, for example, write
an 8 * 7 tile every 50 frames to have one image every 2 seconds @ 25 fps.
<start>
outer border thickness in pixels (default: 2)
<delta>
inner border thickness in pixels (default: 4)
delogo[=x:y:w:h:t]
Suppresses a TV station logo by a simple interpolation of the surrounding pixels. Just set a
rectangle covering the logo and watch it disappear (and sometimes something even uglier appear -
your mileage may vary).
<x>,<y>
top left corner of the logo
<w>,<h>
width and height of the cleared rectangle
<t> Thickness of the fuzzy edge of the rectangle (added to w and h). When set to -1, a green
rectangle is drawn on the screen to simplify finding the right x,y,w,h parameters.
file=<file>
You can specify a text file to load the coordinates from. Each line must have a timestamp
(in seconds, and in ascending order) and the "x:y:w:h:t" coordinates (t can be omitted).
remove-logo=/path/to/logo_bitmap_file_name.pgm
Suppresses a TV station logo, using a PGM or PPM image file to determine which pixels comprise the
logo. The width and height of the image file must match those of the video stream being processed.
Uses the filter image and a circular blur algorithm to remove the logo.
/path/to/logo_bitmap_file_name.pgm
[path] + filename of the filter image.
screenshot
Allows acquiring screenshots of the movie using slave mode commands that can be bound to
keypresses. See the slave mode documentation and the INTERACTIVE CONTROL section for details.
Files named shotNNNN.png will be saved in the working directory, using the first available number
- no files will be overwritten. The filter has no overhead when not used. It does however break
playback in some cases, especially VDPAU hardware decoding is incompatible with the filter. Thus
it is not completely safe to add the filter to default configuration "just in case you might want
to take screenshots". Make sure that the screenshot filter is added after all other filters whose
effect you want to record on the saved image. E.g. it should be the last filter if you want to
have an exact screenshot of what you see on the monitor.
ass Moves SSA/ASS subtitle rendering to an arbitrary point in the filter chain. See the --ass option.
EXAMPLE:
--vf=ass,screenshot
Moves SSA/ASS rendering before the screenshot filter. Screenshots taken this way will
contain subtitles.
blackframe[=amount:threshold]
Detect frames that are (almost) completely black. Can be useful to detect chapter transitions or
commercials. Output lines consist of the frame number of the detected frame, the percentage of
blackness, the frame type and the frame number of the last encountered keyframe.
<amount>
Percentage of the pixels that have to be below the threshold (default: 98).
<threshold>
Threshold below which a pixel value is considered black (default: 32).
stereo3d[=in:out]
Stereo3d converts between different stereoscopic image formats.
<in> Stereoscopic image format of input. Possible values:
sbsl or side_by_side_left_first
side by side parallel (left eye left, right eye right)
sbsr or side_by_side_right_first
side by side crosseye (right eye left, left eye right)
sbs2l or side_by_side_half_width_left_first
side by side parallel with half width resolution (left eye left, right eye right)
sbs2r or side_by_side_half_width_right_first
side by side crosseye with half width resolution (right eye left, left eye right)
abl or above_below_left_first
above-below (left eye above, right eye below)
abl or above_below_right_first
above-below (right eye above, left eye below)
ab2l or above_below_half_height_left_first
above-below with half height resolution (left eye above, right eye below)
ab2r or above_below_half_height_right_first
above-below with half height resolution (right eye above, left eye below)
<out> Stereoscopic image format of output. Possible values are all the input formats as well as:
arcg or anaglyph_red_cyan_gray
anaglyph red/cyan gray (red filter on left eye, cyan filter on right eye)
arch or anaglyph_red_cyan_half_color
anaglyph red/cyan half colored (red filter on left eye, cyan filter on right eye)
arcc or anaglyph_red_cyan_color
anaglyph red/cyan color (red filter on left eye, cyan filter on right eye)
arcd or anaglyph_red_cyan_dubois
anaglyph red/cyan color optimized with the least squares projection of dubois (red
filter on left eye, cyan filter on right eye)
agmg or anaglyph_green_magenta_gray
anaglyph green/magenta gray (green filter on left eye, magenta filter on right eye)
agmh or anaglyph_green_magenta_half_color
anaglyph green/magenta half colored (green filter on left eye, magenta filter on
right eye)
agmc or anaglyph_green_magenta_color
anaglyph green/magenta colored (green filter on left eye, magenta filter on right
eye)
agmd or anaglyph_green_magenta_dubois
anaglyph green/magenta colored optimized with the least squares projection of dubois
(green filter on left eye, magenta filter on right eye)
aybg or anaglyph_yellow_blue_gray
anaglyph yellow/blue gray (yellow filter on left eye, blue filter on right eye)
aybh or anaglyph_yellow_blue_half_color
anaglyph yellow/blue half colored (yellow filter on left eye, blue filter on right
eye)
aybc or anaglyph_yellow_blue_color
anaglyph yellow/blue colored (yellow filter on left eye, blue filter on right eye)
aybd or anaglyph_yellow_blue_dubois
anaglyph yellow/blue colored optimized with the least squares projection of dubois
(yellow filter on left eye, blue filter on right eye)
irl or interleave_rows_left_first
Interleaved rows (left eye has top row, right eye starts on next row)
irr or interleave_rows_right_first
Interleaved rows (right eye has top row, left eye starts on next row)
ml or mono_left
mono output (left eye only)
mr or mono_right
mono output (right eye only)
gradfun[=strength[:radius]]
Fix the banding artifacts that are sometimes introduced into nearly flat regions by truncation to
8bit colordepth. Interpolates the gradients that should go where the bands are, and dithers them.
This filter is designed for playback only. Do not use it prior to lossy compression, because
compression tends to lose the dither and bring back the bands.
<strength>
Maximum amount by which the filter will change any one pixel. Also the threshold for
detecting nearly flat regions (default: 1.2).
<radius>
Neighborhood to fit the gradient to. Larger radius makes for smoother gradients, but also
prevents the filter from modifying pixels near detailed regions (default: 16).
fixpts[=options]
Fixes the presentation timestamps (PTS) of the frames. By default, the PTS passed to the next
filter is dropped, but the following options can change that:
print Print the incoming PTS.
fps=<fps>
Specify a frame per second value.
start=<pts>
Specify an initial value for the PTS.
autostart=<n>
Uses the nth incoming PTS as the initial PTS. All previous PTS are kept, so setting a huge
value or -1 keeps the PTS intact.
autofps=<n>
Uses the nth incoming PTS after the end of autostart to determine the framerate.
EXAMPLE:
--vf=fixpts=fps=24000/1001,ass,fixpts
Generates a new sequence of PTS, uses it for ASS subtitles, then drops it. Generating a new
sequence is useful when the timestamps are reset during the program; this is frequent on
DVDs. Dropping it may be necessary to avoid confusing encoders.
NOTE: Using this filter together with any sort of seeking (including --ss) may make demons fly out
of your nose.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
There are a number of environment variables that can be used to control the behavior of MPlayer.
MPLAYER_CHARSET (see also --msgcharset)
Convert console messages to the specified charset (default: autodetect). A value of "noconv" means
no conversion.
MPLAYER_HOME
Directory where MPlayer looks for user settings.
MPLAYER_LOCALEDIR
Directory where MPlayer looks for gettext translation files (if enabled).
MPLAYER_VERBOSE (see also -v and --msglevel)
Set the initial verbosity level across all message modules (default: 0). The resulting verbosity
corresponds to that of --msglevel=5 plus the value of MPLAYER_VERBOSE.
libaf:
LADSPA_PATH
If LADSPA_PATH is set, it searches for the specified file. If it is not set, you must
supply a fully specified pathname.
FIXME: This is also mentioned in the ladspa section.
libdvdcss:
DVDCSS_CACHE
Specify a directory in which to store title key values. This will speed up descrambling of
DVDs which are in the cache. The DVDCSS_CACHE directory is created if it does not exist,
and a subdirectory is created named after the DVD's title or manufacturing date. If
DVDCSS_CACHE is not set or is empty, libdvdcss will use the default value which is
${HOME}/.dvdcss/ under Unix and C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\dvdcss\
under Win32. The special value "off" disables caching.
DVDCSS_METHOD
Sets the authentication and decryption method that libdvdcss will use to read scrambled
discs. Can be one of title, key or disc.
key is the default method. libdvdcss will use a set of calculated player keys to try and
get the disc key. This can fail if the drive does not recognize any of the player
keys.
disc is a fallback method when key has failed. Instead of using player keys, libdvdcss
will crack the disc key using a brute force algorithm. This process is CPU intensive
and requires 64 MB of memory to store temporary data.
title is the fallback when all other methods have failed. It does not rely on a key
exchange with the DVD drive, but rather uses a crypto attack to guess the title key.
On rare cases this may fail because there is not enough encrypted data on the disc
to perform a statistical attack, but on the other hand it is the only way to decrypt
a DVD stored on a hard disc, or a DVD with the wrong region on an RPC2 drive.
DVDCSS_RAW_DEVICE
Specify the raw device to use. Exact usage will depend on your operating system, the Linux
utility to set up raw devices is raw(8) for instance. Please note that on most operating
systems, using a raw device requires highly aligned buffers: Linux requires a 2048 bytes
alignment (which is the size of a DVD sector).
DVDCSS_VERBOSE
Sets the libdvdcss verbosity level.
0 Outputs no messages at all.
1 Outputs error messages to stderr.
2 Outputs error messages and debug messages to stderr.
DVDREAD_NOKEYS
Skip retrieving all keys on startup. Currently disabled.
HOME FIXME: Document this.
osdep:
TERM FIXME: Document this.
libvo:
DISPLAY
FIXME: Document this.
FRAMEBUFFER
FIXME: Document this.
HOME FIXME: Document this.
libmpdemux:
HOME FIXME: Document this.
HOMEPATH
FIXME: Document this.
http_proxy
FIXME: Document this.
LOGNAME
FIXME: Document this.
USERPROFILE
FIXME: Document this.
libavformat:
http_proxy
FIXME: Document this.
no_proxy
FIXME: Document this.
FILES
/usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
MPlayer system-wide settings
~/.mplayer/config
MPlayer user settings
~/.mplayer/input.conf
input bindings (see --input=keylist for the full list)
~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
Fallback font file. Normally unnecessary; only really needed in the very unusual case where the
player uses a libass library that has fontconfig disabled.
~/.mplayer/DVDkeys/
cached CSS keys
EXAMPLES
Quickstart Blu-ray playing:
• mplayer br:////path/to/disc
• mplayer br:// --bluray-device=/path/to/disc
Quickstart DVD playing:
mplayer dvd://1
Play in Japanese with English subtitles:
mplayer dvd://1 --alang=ja --slang=en
Play only chapters 5, 6, 7:
mplayer dvd://1 --chapter=5-7
Play only titles 5, 6, 7:
mplayer dvd://5-7
Play a multiangle DVD:
mplayer dvd://1 --dvdangle=2
Play from a different DVD device:
mplayer dvd://1 --dvd-device=/dev/dvd2
Play DVD video from a directory with VOB files:
mplayer dvd://1 --dvd-device=/path/to/directory/
Copy a DVD title to hard disk, saving to file title1.vob :
mplayer dvd://1 --dumpstream --dumpfile=title1.vob
Play a DVD with dvdnav from path /dev/sr1:
mplayer dvdnav:////dev/sr1
Stream from HTTP:
mplayer http://mplayer.hq/example.avi
Stream using RTSP:
mplayer rtsp://server.example.com/streamName
Convert subtitles to MPsub format:
mplayer dummy.avi --sub=source.sub --dumpmpsub
Convert subtitles to MPsub format without watching the movie:
mplayer /dev/zero --rawvideo=pal:fps=xx --demuxer=rawvideo --vc=null --vo=null --noframedrop
--benchmark --sub=source.sub --dumpmpsub
input from standard V4L:
mplayer tv:// --tv=driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 --vc=rawi420 --vo=xv
Play DTS-CD with passthrough:
mplayer --ac=hwdts --rawaudio=format=0x2001 --cdrom-device=/dev/cdrom cdda://
You can also use --afm=hwac3 instead of --ac=hwdts. Adjust /dev/cdrom to match the CD-ROM device
on your system. If your external receiver supports decoding raw DTS streams, you can directly play
it via cdda:// without setting format, hwac3 or hwdts.
Play a 6-channel AAC file with only two speakers:
mplayer --rawaudio=format=0xff --demuxer=rawaudio
--af=pan=2:.32:.32:.39:.06:.06:.39:.17:-.17:-.17:.17:.33:.33 adts_he-aac160_51.aac
You might want to play a bit with the pan values (e.g multiply with a value) to increase volume or
avoid clipping.
checkerboard invert with geq filter:
mplayer --vf=geq='128+(p(X\,Y)-128)*(0.5-gt(mod(X/SW\,128)\,64))*(0.5-gt(mod(Y/SH\,128)\,64))*4'
MPLAYER2(1)