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mplayer High performance media player supporting many formats
1.5.0.20250816 multimedia on this many watch lists=314 search for ports that depend on this port An older version of this port was marked as vulnerable. Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.5.0.20250816Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: riggs@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2002-11-28 00:14:07
Last Update: 2025-08-17 05:37:23
Commit Hash: 98b7483
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Also Listed In: audio
License: GPLv2
WWW:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
Description:
MPlayer is a multimedia player and encoder suite which runs on many platforms. It plays a terrific number of different file formats and codecs including popular DivX, XviD, H.264 streams as well as DVD and SVCDs along with many popular audio codecs. On the i386 platform it also supports some Windows DLL codec families which allow playing of e.g. QuickTime movies.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/mplayer-1.5.0.20250816/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/mplayer-1.5.0.20250816/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/mplayer-1.5.0.20250816/GPLv2
  4. bin/mplayer
  5. share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz
  6. bin/gmplayer
  7. share/man/man1/gmplayer.1.gz
  8. share/pixmaps/mplayer.png
  9. share/mplayer/examples/etc/example.conf
  10. share/mplayer/examples/etc/input.conf
  11. share/mplayer/examples/etc/menu.conf
  12. share/mplayer/examples/etc/dvb-menu.conf
  13. @owner
  14. @group
  15. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • mplayer>0:multimedia/mplayer
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install multimedia/mplayer
  • pkg install mplayer
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: mplayer
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1755326948 SHA256 (mplayer-1.5.0.20250816.tar.xz) = 418c4f58d1b62a3eafd6b493b017369613d8b01f01d88bc7b916f5d17f9efadb SIZE (mplayer-1.5.0.20250816.tar.xz) = 5216196

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
mplayer
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816-1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816--1.5.0.20250816n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816-1.5.0.202508161.5.0.202508161.5.0.20230321_4-1.5.0.20230321_4
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816-1.5.0.20240928_21.5.0.202508161.5.0.202401061.5.0.20240106-
FreeBSD:15:latest1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816n/a1.5.0.20250816n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.5.0.202508161.5.0.20250816n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-1.5.0.20250816n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  2. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  3. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  4. msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
  5. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  6. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  7. xorgproto>=0 : x11/xorgproto
  8. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  9. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  10. xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver
  11. xxf86dga.pc : x11/libXxf86dga
  12. xxf86vm.pc : x11/libXxf86vm
  13. xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
  14. xv.pc : x11/libXv
Runtime dependencies:
  1. mplayer-skins>=0 : multimedia/mplayer-skins
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xext.pc : x11/libXext
  4. xscrnsaver.pc : x11/libXScrnSaver
  5. xxf86dga.pc : x11/libXxf86dga
  6. xxf86vm.pc : x11/libXxf86vm
  7. xinerama.pc : x11/libXinerama
  8. xv.pc : x11/libXv
Library dependencies:
  1. libpng.so : graphics/png
  2. libavcodec.so.60 : multimedia/ffmpeg
  3. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  4. libass.so : multimedia/libass
  5. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  6. libdvdnav.so : multimedia/libdvdnav
  7. libdvdread.so : multimedia/libdvdread
  8. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  9. libfribidi.so : converters/fribidi
  10. libgnutls.so : security/gnutls
  11. libvdpau.so : multimedia/libvdpau
  12. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  13. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  14. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  15. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  16. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  17. libgtk-x11-2.0.so : x11-toolkits/gtk20
  18. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  19. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  20. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
  21. libfreetype.so : print/freetype2
  22. libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
  23. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  24. libGL.so : graphics/libglvnd
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. multimedia/dvbcut

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. multimedia/ogmrip*
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for Run
  1. audio/atunes
  2. audio/fdmf
  3. audio/mpg123.el
  4. audio/mps
  5. audio/vitunes
  6. games/holotz-castle
  7. graphics/gimageview
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  2. graphics/imageindex
  3. graphics/impressive
  4. multimedia/dvbcut
  5. multimedia/gtk-youtube-viewer
  6. multimedia/kmplayer
  7. multimedia/lives
  8. multimedia/photofilmstrip
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Deleted ports which required this port:

Expand this list of 26 deleted ports
  1. audio/dir2ogg*
  2. audio/mbox*
  3. multimedia/2mandvd*
  4. multimedia/devede*
  5. multimedia/dvdrip*
  6. multimedia/freevo*
  7. multimedia/gnome-mplayer*
  8. multimedia/kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs-kde4*
  9. multimedia/kdemultimedia4-mplayerthumbs*
  10. multimedia/kmplayer-kde4*
  11. multimedia/kplayer*
  12. multimedia/kplayer-kde4*
  13. multimedia/lxdvdrip*
  14. multimedia/mandvd*
  15. multimedia/mkxvcd*
  16. multimedia/ogmrip*
  17. multimedia/playd*
  18. multimedia/pymp*
  19. multimedia/qmmp*
  20. multimedia/smile*
  21. multimedia/tovid*
  22. multimedia/tunapie*
  23. multimedia/umplayer*
  24. multimedia/youtube-viewer*
  25. www/linux-mplayer-plugin*
  26. www/plugger-plugins-hubbe*
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* - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for mplayer-1.5.0.20250816: AALIB=off: AAlib graphics library support AMR_NB=off: AMR Narrow Band audio support (opencore) AMR_WB=off: AMR Wide Band audio support (opencore) ASS=on: Subtitles rendering via libass BLURAY=off: BluRay support CACA=off: libcaca graphics library support CDIO=off: CDIO support via libcdio DV=off: Quasar DV video codec support (libdv) DVDNAV=on: DVD navigation features support ENCA=off: Charset conversion via enca FONTCONFIG=on: X11 font configuration support FRIBIDI=on: Bidirectional text support via GNU FriBidi GIF=off: GIF image format support GNUTLS=on: SSL/TLS support via GnuTLS GSM=off: GSM codec support GUI=on: GUI (Graphical User Interface) support IPV6=on: IPv6 protocol support JACK=off: JACK audio server support JPEG=on: JPEG image format support LADSPA=off: LADSPA audio plugins support LIBMNG=off: MNG animated images support via libmng LIRC=off: Infrared remote control support LZO=off: External liblzo support NAS=off: Network Audio System support NLS=on: Native Language Support OPENAL=off: Audio support via OpenAL OPENGL=on: 2D/3D rendering support via OpenGL OPENJPEG=off: JPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG OPUS=off: Opus audio codec support PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support RTCPU=on: Use runtime CPU detection SDL=off: Simple Direct Media Layer support SKINS=on: Install skins for GUI SMB=off: SMB network protocol support SNDIO=off: Sndio audio support SPEEX=off: Speex audio format support SVGALIB=off: SVGA graphics support V4L=off: Video 4 Linux support VDPAU=on: VDPAU (GPU video acceleration) support VPX=off: VP8/VP9 video codec support X11=on: X11 (graphics) support X11DGA=on: X11 DGA video driver support X11VM=on: X11 VidMode support XINERAMA=on: X11 Xinerama extension support XVIDEO=on: X11 Video extension library support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
multimedia_mplayer
USES:
compiler:c11 gmake iconv ncurses tar:xz iconv pkgconfig gnome jpeg gettext gl xorg xorg xorg xorg
pkg-message:
For install:
MPlayer's comprehensive documentation covers many topics like output devices, video encoding, repairing broken files etc. It is auto-generated daily and can be found on the project homepage in the documentation section: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/documentation.html MPlayer's system-wide configuration dir is /usr/local/etc/mplayer If you want to install configuration files into this location in order to change mplayer's default settings for all users on your system, you find some examples in /usr/local/share/mplayer/examples/etc
Master Sites:
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  1. http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/riggs/mplayer/
  2. http://distcache.eu.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/riggs/mplayer/
  3. http://distcache.us-east.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/riggs/mplayer/
  4. http://distcache.us-west.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/riggs/mplayer/
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