MPEG_PLAY, GRAPHICS, MPEG Video Player ! MPEG_PLAY reads compressed motion picture video in the MPEG format, decompresses in software and displays on a standard X11 display. Very useful for viewing things like the weather animations from the University of Illinois WWW server. This version provides shared memory extension access... a bug in earlier versions of the extension would cause it to hang (in which case, use the -shmem_off switch).