Welcome to the Windows version of MPlayer - the movie player
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/).

The bottom of this file has a list of keyboard shortcuts to control MPlayer.
A complete list of command line parameters is in man_page.html. More
documentation is in the docs/ directory. Start reading at index.html or
skip right to windows.html for Windows-specific information. Note that
while most of the documentation is written with the Unix version in mind
most things are valid for Windows as well.


The files in this package:
gmplayer.exe - the main executable
man_page.html - usage and command line options
AUTHORS.txt - (incomplete) authors list
Changelog.txt - a list of the most important changes between versions
Copyright.txt - copyright information for imported libraries
LICENSE.txt - a copy of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL)
README.txt - this document
codecs/ - binary codecs (Real, QuickTime etc.) directory;
You can download some codecs from our downlad page:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

mplayer/config - configuration file with adjustable options
mplayer/gui.conf - configuration file with GUI-specific options
mplayer/input.conf - keybinding configuration file

This package comes with a trimmed-down (latin characters only) version of
the Bandal font in the file mplayer/subfont.txt. The font is copyright
2006 by Ho-Seok Ee and available und under the terms
of the Artistic license. The Artistic license can be found at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php.


A list of Windows frontends for MPlayer can be found at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/projects.html#windows

A mailing list for Windows-related questions is at
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin


KEYBOARD CONTROL

general control
<- and ->
Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
up and down
Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
pgup and pgdown
Seek backward/forward 10 minutes.
[ and ]
Decreases/increases current playback speed by 10%.
{ and }
Halves/doubles current playback speed.
Backspace
Reset playback speed to normal.
< and >
backward/forward in playlist
HOME and END
next/previous playtree entry in the parent list
INS and DEL
next/previous alternative source (ASX playlist only)
p / SPACE
Pause movie (pressing again unpauses).
.
Step forward. Pressing once will pause movie, every
consecutive press will play one frame and then go into
pause mode again (any other key unpauses).
q / ESC
Stop playing and quit.
+ and -
Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
/ and *
Decrease/increase volume.
9 and 0
Decrease/increase volume.
m
Mute sound.
f
Toggle fullscreen (also see -fs).
T
Toggle stay-on-top (also see -ontop).
w and e
Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.
o
Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek +
timer + total time.
d
Toggle frame dropping states: none / skip display / skip
decoding (see -framedrop and -hardframedrop).
v
Toggle subtitle visibility.
b / j
Cycle through the available subtitles.
F
Toggle displaying "forced subtitles".
a
Toggle subtitle aligment: top/middle/bottom.
z and x
Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
r and t
Move subtitles up/down.
i
Set EDL mark.

(The following keys are valid only when using a hardware accelerated
video output (xv, (x)vidix, (x)mga, etc), or the software equalizer
filter (-vf eq or -vf eq2).

1 and 2
Adjust contrast.
3 and 4
Adjust brightness.
5 and 6
Adjust hue.
7 and 8
Adjust saturation.