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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Be advised that we do not support any unofficial packages, only the non-outdated official ones listed below.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').

Subversion snapshot HTTP FTP
source snapshot HTTP FTP

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.

MPlayer 1.5 release HTTP (xz compressed, 15 MB) FTP (xz compressed, 15 MB)

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

MPlayer Windows builds HTTP
UPDATED MPlayer Windows builds HTTP
MPlayer Mac OS X Extended HTTP
Fedora and CentOS/RHEL RPM packages from RPMFusion HTTP

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.

Linux x86 20071007 HTTP FTP BITTORRENT
Linux PPC 20071007 HTTP FTP
Linux AMD64 20071007 HTTP FTP
Linux Alpha 20061028 HTTP FTP
Windows x86 20071007 HTTP FTP BITTORRENT
Mac OS X x86 20060611 HTTP FTP
Mac OS X PPC 20041107 HTTP FTP

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.

Name Version Creator Description HTTP FTP
Blue 1.13 Xenomorph new default MPlayer skin3 HTTP FTP
Blue-multilingual 1.13.9 Xenomorph, Ingo Brückl Blue, multilingual1 HTTP FTP
Blue-small 1.11 Xenomorph compact version3 HTTP FTP
Clearlooks 2.0 Ingo Brückl modern Clearlooks2 HTTP FTP
Clearlooks-multilingual 2.0.9 Ingo Brückl modern Clearlooks, multilingual1 HTTP FTP
Noskin 1.0 Ingo Brückl most minimal, like plain MPlayer (built-in part of the GUI since 2021-02-26) HTTP FTP
standard 1.12 FRD (Viktor Bekesi) old default skin HTTP FTP
Abyss 1.7 Xenomorph beautiful MPlayer skin HTTP FTP
Ater 1.2 Laszlo Simon dark, cool-looking HTTP FTP
pcland 1.1 Pcland.hu blue waves HTTP FTP
Corelian 1.2 LUIGI plain look HTTP FTP
neutron 1.6 Oliwier Ptak futuristic look HTTP FTP
disappearer 1.2 Alban Hertroys very slim skin HTTP FTP
plastic 1.3 FRD (Viktor Bekesi) plastic remote control skin HTTP FTP
phony 1.2 Jurgen Pehrson desktop DVD player skin HTTP FTP
mentalic 1.4 Oliwier Ptak sharp and shiny HTTP FTP
proton 1.3 Pasquale Riccio silver, shiny HTTP FTP
slim 1.3 FRD (Viktor Bekesi) small and cute HTTP FTP
CornerMP 1.3 DC.Park WinAMP corner skin HTTP FTP
CornerMP-aqua 1.5 DC.Park WinAMP corner skin HTTP FTP
trium 1.4 Scognito based on a mobile phone HTTP FTP
gnome 1.1 Scognito based on the GNOME logo HTTP FTP
Orange 1.3 Ognian Vasilev clean, good looking HTTP FTP
QPlayer 1.3 Quiana playful look HTTP FTP
handheld 1.0 Andrew Carpenter remote control look HTTP FTP
MidnightLove 1.7 Gabucino XMMS skin of Rei Ayanami HTTP FTP
avifile 1.8 Toky (Balazs Vigvary) aviplay look HTTP FTP
BlueHeart 1.6 Gabucino BlueHeart XMMS skin HTTP FTP
WMP6 2.2 Gabucino Windows Media Player HTTP FTP
xanim 1.8 Gabucino XAnim "feeling" :) HTTP FTP
Cyrus 1.3 Roberto J. Cyrus XMMS skin HTTP FTP
xine-lcd 1.2 Gabucino xine LCD skin HTTP FTP
AlienMind 1.2 Gabucino Alien Mind XMMS skin HTTP FTP
hwswskin 1.3 hwsw.hu simple, Windows-ish HTTP FTP
krystal 1.1 Gary Whitmore Jr. very colorful HTTP FTP
softgrip 1.2 Sudrien strange design HTTP FTP
new-age 1.0 Javipa clean and simple HTTP FTP
DVDPlayer 1.1 Jiri Tyr jun. hardware player lookalike HTTP FTP
Industrial 1.1 Nikola Pizurica Industrial GTK theme HTTP FTP
OSX-Brushed 2.4 Ryan Northam iTunes lookalike HTTP FTP
OSX-Mod 1.1 DogFaceMonk QuickTime lookalike HTTP FTP
PowerPlayer 1.1 caparuni PowerDVD lookalike HTTP FTP
Terminator3 1.1 Kiss Balint inspired by Terminator 3 HTTP FTP
tvisor 1.2 Andre Kuehne simple, well-designed HTTP FTP
ultrafina 1.2 Diego Biurrun XMMS ultrafina skin HTTP FTP
XFce4 1.1 Nikola Pizurica default XFce4 theme HTTP FTP
xmmplayer 1.5 nostrildamus XMMS lookalike HTTP FTP
JiMPlayer 1.4 Attila Gyimesi round and colorful HTTP FTP
QuickSilver 1.1 Charles Foucault QuickSilver WMP skin HTTP FTP
smoothwebby 1.2 Andrew Weber blueish monochrome HTTP FTP
webby 1.4 Andrew Weber bluegray monochrome HTTP FTP
Canary 1.2 Veres Imre small, compact HTTP FTP
CubicPlayer 1.1 Gabucino textmode like HTTP FTP
divxplayer 1.3 Marcin Szumiela DivX player lookalike HTTP FTP
hayraphon 1.0 michaell@uni.de bluegray monochrome HTTP FTP
iTunes 1.2 unknown iTunes inspired HTTP FTP
iTunes-mini 1.2 unknown iTunes inspired HTTP FTP
mini 0.1 Fabian Franz browser plugin skin HTTP FTP
moonphase 1.0 Dan "Jago" Naumov flat gray HTTP FTP
mplayer_red 1.1 Burt.S. rusty machine HTTP FTP
nativeRed 1.2 nativeridge red and black HTTP FTP
netscape4 1.0 Gabucino Communicator 4.77 HTTP FTP
sessene 1.0 ghostman clean and small HTTP FTP
bluecurve 1.4 bleachie Red Hat bluecurve theme HTTP FTP
changuito 0.3 jpoyarzun Gorilla GNOME theme HTTP FTP
OpenDoh 1.2 siTe Industrial look-alike HTTP FTP
plastik 2.0 Jesper Schultz KDE plastik theme HTTP FTP
productive 1.0 Michael Zeising smooth and modern look HTTP FTP
brushedGnome 1.2 Azrael brushed QPlayer HTTP FTP
Linea 1.0 Radic Vesko black and white HTTP FTP
clearplayer 0.10 Massimo Tisi ClearLooks GNOME theme HTTP FTP
ICY 1.0 Phantom LORD Nero ShowTime skin HTTP FTP
Dushku 1.2 funkydrummer Eliza Dushku HTTP FTP
KDE 0.3 Rüdiger Kuhlmann uses KDE images HTTP FTP

1 can display all glyphs of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
2 can display all Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement glyphs, seven Latin Extended-A glyphs (Œ, œ, Š, š, Ÿ, Ž, ž) and the Euro Sign glyph (€)
3 can only display Basic Latin glyphs, one Latin-1 Supplement glyph (ó) and eight Latin Extended-A glyphs (ą, ć, ę, Ł, ł, ń, ś, ż)

Debian Packages

We run a small Debian repository:

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:

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.