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mplayer-20251123

movie player supporting many formats

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Description

MPlayer is a media player. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, FLV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, Ogg/OGM, MKV, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files. You can watch VCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV, and even H.264 movies, too. MPlayer supports a wide range of video output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, OpenGL and optionally AAlib or SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL). Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. Flavors: aa: enables ascii art, requires graphics/aalib jack: enables jack, requires audio/jack

Package information

Ports path
x11/mplayer
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Categories
x11, multimedia
Available flavors
debug, aa, jack
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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