Another great feature of Mplayer is its extensive output device support. It works under X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI and SDL (so you can use various driver modes they support) and some low-level hardware-related driver modes (such as Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3)! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can watch movies in full screen.
MPlayer also supports display via hardware MPEG decoding cards such as DVB and DXR3 and Hollywood+. Clear enlarged and anti-aliased subtitles (10 formats supported) using European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc.), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and on screen display (OSD).
This player can play corrupted MPEG files reliably (useful for some VCDs), and it can play broken AVI files that even Windows Media Player cannot open. Even if AVI files without an index part are playable, you can temporarily rebuild their index by -idx selection, or rebuild it with MEncoder, allowing you to search within the video!
As you can see, consistency and quality are the most important things, and his speed is amazing too.
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