Package mplayer: Information

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of file
formats, including AVI, MPEG, and Quicktime. It has many MMX/SSE/3DNow! etc.
optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and
RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic
VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many
text-based subtitle formats too.

For video and audio output, nearly every existing interface is
supported including some low-level card-specific drivers
(for Matrox, Nvidia, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3), hardware AC3
decoding and few hardware MPEG decoding boards such as DVB and
DXR3/Hollywood+.

It also supports video grabbing from V4L devices.

This package provides only console version of the MPlayer. Install
mplayer-gui *instead* if you need a nice skinnable GUI player.