Editing MPlayer (section)

==Capabilities and classification==
MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html |title=Codec Status Table |publisher=Mplayerhq.hu |access-date=2012-01-01}}</ref> namely any format supported by [[FFmpeg]] libraries, and can also save all streamed content to a file locally.

A companion program, called '''[[MEncoder]]''', can take an input stream, file or a sequence of picture files, and [[transcoding|transcode]] it into several different output formats, optionally applying various transforms along the way.

A variety of [[command-line interface|command-line]] parameters allows changing the appearance of the player, including <code>-speed [number]</code>, <code>-af scaletempo</code> for changing audio speed while maintaining the pitch, <code>-ss</code> (start at ___ seconds), <code>-sb</code> (start at ___ bytes), <code>-endpos</code> (stop playing at ___ seconds), <code>-novideo</code> for only playing the audio track of a video, and <code>-loop [number]</code> for looping.<ref>MPlayer documentation and user manual</ref>