PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY) †
-autoq <quality> (use with -vf [s]pp) †
Dynamically changes the level of postprocessing de- pending on the available spare CPU time. The num- ber 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.
-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 au- dio 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 tim- ing 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 op- tion on, for all sound drivers.
-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).
-colorkey <number> †
Changes the colorkey to an RGB value of your choice. 0x000000 is black and 0xffffff is white. Only supported by the cvidix, fbdev, svga, vesa, winvidix, xmga, xvidix, xover, xv (see -vo xv:ck), xvmc (see -vo xv:ck) and directx video output drivers.
-nocolorkey †
Disables colorkeying. Only supported by the cvidix, fbdev, svga, vesa, winvidix, xmga, xvidix, xover, xv (see -vo xv:ck), xvmc (see -vo xv:ck) and directx video output drivers.
-crash-debug (DEBUG CODE) †
Automatically attaches gdb upon crash or SIGTRAP. Support must be compiled in by configuring with --enable-crash-debug or by having a .developer file in the source tree.
-edlout <filename> (EDL only) †
Creates a new file and writes edit decision list (EDL) records to that file. During playback, when the user hits 'i', an entry to skip over the last two seconds of playback will be written to the file. This provides a starting point from which the user can fine-tune EDL entries later. See DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html for details.
-enqueue (GUI only) †
Enqueue files given on the command line in the playlist instead of playing them immediately.
-fixed-vo (BETA CODE!) †
Enforces a fixed video system for multiple files (one (un)initialization for all files). Therefore only one window will be opened for all files. Cur- rently the following drivers are fixed-vo compli- ant: gl, gl2, mga, svga, x11, xmga, xv, xvidix and dfbmga.
-framedrop (also see -hardframedrop) †
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.
-h, -help, --help †
Show short summary of options.
-hardframedrop †
More intense frame dropping (breaks decoding). Leads to image distortion!
-identify †
Show file parameters in an easily parseable format. Also prints more detailed information about subti- tle and audio track languages and IDs. The wrapper script TOOLS/midentify suppresses the other MPlayer output and (hopefully) shellescapes the filenames.
-idle (also see -slave) †
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.
-input <commands> †
This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system. Paths are relative to ~/ .mplayer/.
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-delay
- Delay in milliseconds before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable).
- ar-rate
- Number of key presses to generate per sec- ond on autorepeat.
- keylist
- Prints all keys that can be bound to com- mands.
- cmdlist
- Prints all commands that can be bound to keys.
- js-dev
- Specifies the joystick device to use (de- fault: /dev/input/js0).
- file=<filename>
- Read commands from the given file. Mostly useful with a FIFO.
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.
-key-fifo-size <2-65000> †
Specify the size of the FIFO that buffers key events (default: 10). A FIFO of size n can buffer (n-1) events. If it is too small some events may be lost (leading to "stuck mouse buttons" and simi- lar effects). If it is too big, MPlayer may seem to hang while it processes the buffered events. To get the same behavior as before this option was in- troduced, set it to 2 for Linux or 1024 for Windows.
-lircconf <filename> (LIRC only) †
Specifies a configuration file for LIRC (default: ~/.lircrc).
-list-options †
Prints all available options.
-loop <number> †
Loops movie playback <number> times. 0 means for- ever.
-menu (OSD menu only) †
Turn on OSD menu support.
-menu-cfg <filename> (OSD menu only) †
Use an alternative menu.conf.
-menu-root <value> (OSD menu only) †
Specify the main menu.
-menu-startup (OSD menu only) †
Display the main menu at MPlayer startup.
-noconsolecontrols †
Prevent MPlayer from reading key events from stan- dard 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 com- mands.
-nojoystick †
Turns off joystick support.
-nolirc †
Turns off LIRC support.
-nomouseinput (X11 only) †
Disable mouse button press/release input (mozplay- erxp's context menu relies on this option).
-nortc (RTC only) †
Turns off usage of the Linux RTC (realtime clock - /dev/rtc) as timing mechanism.
-playlist <filename> †
Play files according to a playlist file (ASX, Winamp, SMIL, or one-file-per-line format).
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.
-really-quiet (also see -quiet) †
Display even less output and status messages than with -quiet.
-rtc-device <device> †
Use the specified device for RTC timing.
-shuffle †
Play files in random order.
-skin <name> (GUI only) †
Loads a skin from the directory given as parameter below the default skin directories, /usr/local/ share/mplayer/Skin/ and ~/.mplayer/Skin/.
EXAMPLE:
-skin fittyfene
Tries /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/fit- tyfene and afterwards ~/.mplayer/Skin/fit- tyfene.
-slave (also see -input) †
Switches on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend for other programs. Instead of intercept- ing keyboard events, MPlayer will read commands separated by a newline (n) from stdin.
NOTE: See -input cmdlist for a list of slave com- mands and DOCS/tech/slave.txt for their descrip- tion.
-softsleep †
Use high-quality software timers instead of the RTC. As precise as the RTC without requiring spe- cial privileges. Comes at the price of higher CPU consumption.
-sstep <sec> †
Skip <sec> seconds after every frame. The normal framerate of the movie is kept, so playback is ac- celerated. Since MPlayer can only seek to the next keyframe this may be inexact.
