Overview

Mplayer is a media file player which can decode nearly every media file out there. It can also use countless output drivers (like vpdau or pulseaudio) Most of the time mplayer is in the background when you use frontends like gnome-mplayer, smplayer or gmusicbrowser. Those frontend bring their own set of parameters with them but you still can set up mplayer with it's config file (~/.mplayer/config). The vastness of those options scare most people away but with a little bit of help you can set up mplayer as you have never seen a media player before.

General options

Default options for every media file

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ao=pulse lavdopts=threads=8 dr=1 use-filedir-conf=1 noquiet=1 msglevel=all=5 noslices=1 double=yes framedrop=0 hardframedrop=0 vsync=1 ac=ffmpeg,ffmp3,mad,mp3acm,mpg321, ao=pulse srate=48000 format=s16le channels=6 cache=8192 cache-min=50 softvol=yes volstep=2 volume=50 softvol-max=50 vo=vdpau