How To Install Mplayer On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Raspbian And MacOS?

How To Install Mplayer On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Raspbian And MacOS?

mplayer

movie player for Unix-like systems

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Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Email: [email protected] .
Website: https://www.mplayerhq.hu
Section: video

Install mplayer

  • Debian apt-get install mplayer Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install mplayer Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add mplayer Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S mplayer Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install mplayer Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install mplayer Click to copy
  • macOS brew install mplayer Click to copy

mplayer

movie player for Unix-like systems

MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, DirectFB, but also SDL. Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball. See the README.Debian and copyright files for details.

mplayer2

next generation movie player for Unix-like systems

MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, DirectFB, but also SDL (plus all its drivers) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64 and Permedia3). Most of them support software or hardware scaling, therefore allowing fullscreen display. MPlayer is also able to use some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+.

mplayer-dbg

debugging symbols for MPlayer

mplayer2-dbg

Debugging symbols for mplayer2

MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. This package provides the debugging symbols for mplayer2.

Installing mplayer command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Raspbian and macOS operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of mplayer 2026 package in your OS.