ffplay - FFplay media player ffplay [options] input_file FFplay is a very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs.

Main options
Show help. Show version. Show license. Show available formats, codecs, protocols, ... Force displayed width. Force displayed height. Set frame size (WxH or abbreviation), needed for videos which don't contain a header with the frame size like raw YUV. Disable audio. Disable video. Seek to a given position in seconds. Seek by bytes. Disable graphical display. Force format.

Advanced options
Set pixel format. Show the stream duration, the codec parameters, the current position in the stream and the audio/video synchronisation drift. Print specific debug info. Work around bugs. Visualize motion vectors. Non-spec-compliant optimizations. Generate pts. Force RTP/TCP protocol usage instead of RTP/UDP. It is only meaningful if you are streaming with the RTSP protocol. Set the master clock to audio ("type=audio"), video ("type=video") or external ("type=ext"). Default is audio. The master clock is used to control audio-video synchronization. Most media players use audio as master clock, but in some cases (streaming or high quality broadcast) it is necessary to change that. This option is mainly used for debugging purposes. Set the thread count.

While playing
Quit. Toggle full screen. Pause. Cycle audio channel. Cycle video channel. Show audio waves. Seek backward/forward 10 seconds. Seek backward/forward 1 minute. Seek to percentage in file corresponding to fraction of width. ffmpeg(1), ffserver(1) and the HTML documentation of ffmpeg. Fabrice Bellard