Automic VaultAutomic Vault

brew

Install mplayer with Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop

UNIX movie player. Version 1.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mplayer

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install MPlayer

MacPorts ports tree · multimedia/MPlayer/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add mplayer

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · mplayer · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install mencoder

Debian stable package indexes · mencoder · source: deb.debian.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mplayer

nixpkgs package indexes · mplayer · source: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S mplayer

Arch Linux sync databases · mplayer · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/mplayer

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/mplayer.json · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

UNIX movie player

Commands and aliases

  • mencoder
  • mplayer

history

Project history and usage

MPlayer is a Unix-oriented command-line movie player that grew out of the Linux media-player scene around 2000. MPlayer project pages credit Arpad Gereoffy, known as A'rpi, as the creator; a project news post marking the tenth anniversary says the first MPlayer v0.01 release was on November 11, 2000, while an interview with A'rpi explains that the project came from frustration with available video players and MPEG/VCD playback.

Project history

The project became known for breadth: its manual describes playback of many container and codec families, with support for DVDs, VCDs, network streams, subtitles, and numerous output drivers. MEncoder, shipped alongside MPlayer, reused the same decoding base to encode or transcode MPlayer-readable input into other formats, making the package both a playback tool and a scriptable conversion tool.

Adoption history

MPlayer's ecosystem role was partly technical and partly cultural. It was a keyboard-driven player that could be controlled from scripts, launched by front ends, embedded in workflows, or used directly by users who preferred shell control over a full media-library application. Its code and workflows also fed later projects and wrappers, including mplayer2, mpv, graphical front ends, and macOS-specific shells.

How it is used

In package managers, MPlayer remains the classic low-level media player package: install it for the mplayer binary, install related builds for mencoder, and use configuration files such as ~/.mplayer/config and ~/.mplayer/input.conf for local playback behavior. Users choosing it over mpv or VLC usually want legacy compatibility, MEncoder, old front-end support, or exact MPlayer command-line behavior.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mplayer. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 5 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
~/.mplayer/config~/.mplayer/input.conf

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
mencodercliglobal executable
mplayercliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.5
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://mplayerhq.hu/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://mplayerhq.hu/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:mplayer
Version1.5
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mplayer
Homepagehttps://mplayerhq.hu/
Repositoryhttps://git.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer.git
Upstream docshttps://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/MPlayer.html
LicenseGPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.5.tar.xz
Dependenciesfontconfig, freetype, jpeg-turbo, libcaca, libpng
Build dependenciespkgconf
Uses from macOSbzip2, libxml2, ncurses
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namemplayer
Version Scheme0
Revision2
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

mencoder 2:1.5+svn38674-2

MPlayer's Movie Encoder

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mencoder
  • Section: video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 32 dependencies
  • 4 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mencoder from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

mplayer 2:1.5+svn38674-2

movie player for Unix-like systems

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mplayer
  • Section: video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 32 dependencies
  • 6 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mplayer from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

mplayer-doc 2:1.5+svn38674-2

documentation for MPlayer

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mplayer-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mplayer-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

mplayer-gui 2:1.5+svn38674-2

movie player for Unix-like systems (GUI variant)

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mplayer-gui
  • Section: video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 32 dependencies
  • 5 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mplayer-gui from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

mplayer

nix profile install nixpkgs#mplayer
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
nixpkgs package indexes · raw.githubusercontent.com · nixpkgs package indexes: mplayer from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
Ubuntu apt95%

mencoder 2:1.5+svn38446-1build5

MPlayer's Movie Encoder

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mencoder
  • Section: universe/video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 32 dependencies
  • 4 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mencoder from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

mplayer 2:1.5+svn38446-1build5

movie player for Unix-like systems

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mplayer
  • Section: universe/video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 32 dependencies
  • 6 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mplayer from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

mplayer-doc 2:1.5+svn38446-1build5

documentation for MPlayer

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mplayer-doc
  • Section: universe/doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mplayer-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

mplayer-gui 2:1.5+svn38446-1build5

movie player for Unix-like systems (GUI variant)

https://mplayerhq.hu

sudo apt install mplayer-gui
  • Section: universe/video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 32 dependencies
  • 5 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mplayer-gui from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

mplayer 1.5.0_git20230717-r4

Movie player for linux

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

sudo apk add mplayer
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mplayer from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

mplayer-doc 1.5.0_git20230717-r4

Movie player for linux (documentation)

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

sudo apk add mplayer-doc
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mplayer
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mplayer-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
pacman95%

mplayer 38542-6

Media player for Linux

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

sudo pacman -S mplayer
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 32 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: mplayer from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
MacPorts95%

MPlayer

sudo port install MPlayer
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: multimedia/MPlayer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

extras/mplayer

scoop install extras/mplayer
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mplayer
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mplayer.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
pacman92%

mencoder 38542-6

Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

sudo pacman -S mencoder
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 32 dependencies
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Mencoder
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: mencoder from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • fontconfigRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • freetypeRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • jpeg-turboRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libcacaRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libpngRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • mplayershellPopular package that depends on this formula.
  • qmmpPopular package that depends on this formula.

Same workflow

  • eflLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: fontconfig, freetype, jpeg, jpeg-turbo, libpng.
  • ocpLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: freetype, jpeg, jpeg-turbo, libpng, player.
  • openmotifLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: fontconfig, freetype, jpeg, jpeg-turbo, libpng.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment