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Here you can find everything needed to get MPlayer up and running. The recommended way to install MPlayer is to compile from current SVN source. Look at the unofficial packages section of our projects page if you do not wish to compile from source and/or are looking for packages that may be more tightly integrated with your platform. You might also want to check out the other frontends since there is no further development and limited bug fixing for the included graphical user interface.

Be advised that we do not support any unofficial packages, only the non-outdated official ones listed below. If you have trouble with unofficial packages, get support from the respective authors.

For a complete MPlayer installation you will need sources, a set of binary codecs, and a skin if you want a graphical user interface.

Quick compilation and installation instructions are contained in the README, the installation section of the documentation has more complete information.

Source Code

We provide nightly Subversion snapshots generated at six in the morning (GMT+1). They are generally stable and recommended. If you have issues with them report it, or use Subversion directly to get a more up-to-date or previous version, or wait for the next snapshot, it might be fixed by then.

The Subversion snapshots are working directories complete with Subversion metadata (the result of 'svn checkout'). The source snapshots are bare sources without Subversion metadata (the result of 'svn export').

The latest MPlayer release is 1.5, created on 2022-02-27, which includes an FFmpeg snapshot.
We recommend to always use the latest SVN to get the all the new features and bugfixes, especially if the release date above looks old.

We keep the old releases and ancient releases of MPlayer, in case anybody is interested.

Downloading MPlayer from Subversion

You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following command to get the latest sources:

  svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

A directory named mplayer will be created in the current directory. You can later update your sources by typing

  svn update

from within that directory.

Our Subversion setup does not work over HTTP/HTTPS, nor will it in the future. If you have trouble accessing the Subversion repository, then in 99% of all cases a firewall on your side is the problem. Open TCP port 3690 or find a machine that can use the svn:// protocol directly. Another alternative is downloading a Subversion snapshot.

Binaries

We offer Debian packages of a compact and up-to-date MPlayer for some architectures with minimal dependencies and including the GUI variant.

Binary Codec Packages

First of all, a big warning: These packages are useless for normal Windows players and will only work with MPlayer.

Our binary codec packages add support for codecs that are not yet implemented natively, like newer RealVideo variants and a lot of uncommon formats. Note that they are not necessary to play most common formats like DVDs, MPEG-1/2/4, etc. See the codec status table for the daily-generated list of currently supported codecs.

Choose the package that matches your processor and operating system. If your system cannot manage Linux libraries, choose the Windows package instead. On Windows MPlayer will try to use the codecs installed on your system. Our packages can save you the hassle of installing every known codec and using untested codec versions.

Instructions for installing binary codecs can be found in the README or in the README.txt file that accompanies each codec package. If you want to verify the integrity of the codec packages, compare the MD5 sums. If you want to know what's new in a codec package, check the ChangeLog.

Old package versions, md5sums of all codecs and unsupported/broken codecs useful for development are kept in the codecs directory.

Skins

Click on skin names for screenshots. Read the README or the GUI section of the documentation to find out how to install skins.

We offer Debian packages of actively maintained skins. (If your favorite skin is missing, drop us a note in the user mailing list.)

If you want to create your own MPlayer GUI skin, read the skin section of the documentation. If you are content with your skin and wish to have it added to the official skin collection, go over the Creating quality skins guide and submit the skin to us.

Debian Packages

We run a small Debian repository:

• Package: mplayer+gui
  Architecture: amd64
  Architecture: i386
  Description: The Movie Player
   This package contains both the plain MPlayer and the GUI variant of MPlayer.
  
   All audio and video codecs are provided by a built-in FFmpeg.
  
   The available output drivers are for ALSA (audio), XVideo (video) and the
   framebuffer device (video).
  

• Package: mplayer-skin-blue-multilingual
  Architecture: all
  Description: Blue skin (multilingual) for the MPlayer GUI
   The MPlayer GUI can be customized with various skins and needs at least
   one to be used comfortably and as intended.
  
   This package contains the Blue skin by Xenomorph. It is currently considered
   the default skin for MPlayer. It can display all glyphs of the Unicode Basic
   Multilingual Plane (BMP).
  

• Package: mplayer-skin-blue-small
  Architecture: all
  Description: Blue skin (small) for the MPlayer GUI
   The MPlayer GUI can be customized with various skins and needs at least
   one to be used comfortably and as intended.
  
   This package contains the small Blue skin by Xenomorph, a compact version of
   his Blue skin. It can only display Basic Latin glyphs, one Latin-1 Supplement
   glyph and eight Latin Extended-A glyphs.
  

• Package: mplayer-skin-blue
  Architecture: all
  Description: Blue skin for the MPlayer GUI
   The MPlayer GUI can be customized with various skins and needs at least
   one to be used comfortably and as intended.
  
   This package contains the Blue skin by Xenomorph. Although it is currently
   considered the default skin for the MPlayer GUI, it can only display Basic
   Latin glyphs, one Latin-1 Supplement glyph and eight Latin Extended-A glyphs.
  

• Package: mplayer-skin-clearlooks-multilingual
  Architecture: all
  Description: Clearlooks skin (multilingual) for the MPlayer GUI
   The MPlayer GUI can be customized with various skins and needs at least
   one to be used comfortably and as intended.
  
   This package contains the Clearlooks skin suitable for the Clearlooks
   GTK theme. It can display all glyphs of the Unicode Basic Multilingual
   Plane (BMP).
  

• Package: mplayer-skin-clearlooks
  Architecture: all
  Description: Clearlooks skin for the MPlayer GUI
   The MPlayer GUI can be customized with various skins and needs at least
   one to be used comfortably and as intended.
  
   This package contains the Clearlooks skin suitable for the Clearlooks
   GTK theme. It can display all Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement glyphs,
   seven Latin Extended-A glyphs and the Euro Sign glyph.
  

Using MPlayer's Debian package repository

First of all, download MPlayer's Debian package repository public key. Make sure that this key has the fingerprint 81A6 9856 E6FE 8556 91BC 9AFC 957E 566E 3A92 C61F, because only then it is authentic. Now:

• Debian 12 (»Bookworm«) or later
  

  Prepare the key:

   gpg --dearmor mplayer-deb.key
  

  Make the key known to apt:

   sudo install -m 644 mplayer-deb.key.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
  

• Debian 11 (»Bullseye«) or earlier
  

  Make the key known to the apt keyring:

   sudo apt-key add mplayer-deb.key
  

Create (as superuser) a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mplayer.list with the following content:

 deb http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/deb current main

After a sudo apt update you can install packages from our Debian package repository by simply using sudo apt install and the package name.