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.