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, but also SDL. This package includes the GUI variant of MPlayer.
AUR (Git · Gui build), Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, RPM Fusion, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Gentoo
| Source | Name | Version | Built by | License | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUR (Git · Gui build) | mplayer-gui-svn | 1:r38667-1 | Community build, patched | GPL-2.0-only | Media player for Linux |
| Debian | mplayer | 2:1.5+svn38674-2 | Distribution build | — | movie player for Unix-like systems |
| Debian | mplayer-gui | 2:1.5+svn38674-2 | Distribution build | — | movie player for Unix-like systems (GUI variant) |
| Ubuntu | mplayer | 2:1.5+svn38681-1 | Distribution build | — | movie player for Unix-like systems |
| Arch Linux | mplayer | 38542-11 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Media player for Linux |
| Nixpkgs | mplayer | 1.5-unstable-2024-12-21 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only | Movie player that supports many video formats |
| RPM Fusion | mplayer | 1.5.1 | Distribution build | GPLv3+ | Movie player playing most video formats and DVDs |
| Alpine Linux | mplayer | 1.5.0_git20230717-r4 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Movie player for linux |
| Void Linux | mplayer | 1.5_3 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later | Multimedia player |
| Slackware | MPlayer | 20260805-3 | Distribution build | — | MPlayer (Linux movie player) |
| Gentoo | mplayer | 1.5_p20241125-r2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only | Media Player for Linux |
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