MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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Prevent mplayer from changing system volume
When I change the volume in mplayer it also changes for other applications. How can I configure mplayer to only change its own volume? Or is this a problem with the rest of the audio stack? I am using ...
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Video playlists with start and end times
Is there a good GUI-application (for example an mplayer GUI or something like banshee) for linux which allows to make and edit playlists (for video files) with different starting and stopping times ...
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Mplayer in fullscreen in xmonad
Is it possible to run mplayer in fullscreen in xmonad?
When I use the -fullscreen switch or f command it does nothing.
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272 views
Text to movie from commandline
I need a script called myslide which does the following:
myslide -f 15 -t 20 "Hello World"
produces a movie file (to be played by mplayer), which just displays "Hello World" in the center of the ...
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Compiler flags for mplayer2 to optimize it for old hardware
I just compiled mplayer2 from source (git://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2-build.git) because the repository (ubuntu 12.04) version didn't work on my system. Since I have old hardware I was just wondering ...
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Choppy audio CD playback with mplayer
When playing audio CDs with mplayer, I always get a choppy playback. Playing audio from files, like MP3 (from any optical media, or other drives), etc. works fine. Watching video DVDs is also ok. ...
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How do I install mplayer from a terminal?
I need a command to run on Linux to install mplayer. I'm not finding the command anywhere, and when I try to use the zypper command to install mplayer it tells me I am not a sudoer. What should I do?
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Bad HD video deinterlacing processing
I have Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with Unity. My system configuration is:
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz)
RAM: 8192 Mb DDR2 Kingston
Video: Palit GeForce GTX 260 216 SP, and my screen resolution is ...
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How can I retain the console input in mplayer when reading from stdin?
I'm playing around with the command line interface of mplayer. I'd like to script it in the following way
find /some/path/ -type f | grep -vif blacklist | mplayer -shuffle -playlist -
where ...
2
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778 views
Mplayer video output drivers
Is there a document somewhere describing each of mplayer's video output drivers and why'd you'd want to pick that one for a given circumstance (or why it exists) Would someone be willing to write that ...
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how to stretch mplayer to both monitors (fullscreen) in a xinerama setup
I am using the window manager Xmonad and have two monitors in a Xinerama setup. I want to display videos with mplayer fullscreen across the two monitors.
But, by default, I want mplayer to be a tiled ...
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how to start from within my shell-script xterm which starts mplayer and plays the files that are the argument of the script
What I want to do: Start my script with a list of files as arguments. From within my script I want to start xterm that starts mplayer with these files.
I tried several things. I call my script like ...
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Mplayer controls when using stdin playlists
I ran across this post: How can I retain the console input in mplayer when reading from stdin?
But the answer there doesn't work for me. (and I can't comment due to not enough rep)
I'm running the ...
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2answers
970 views
How to create a PCM wav with mplayer?
I want to reencode a audiobook for my mobile with speexenc. The first step is to reencode the file with mplayer.
for i in *.mp3; do
mplayer -ao pcm:waveheader "$i" -af ...
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1answer
722 views
Running MPlayer through a PHP script
I'm trying to open an MPlayer instance on my server from a PHP script (using PHP's system() function). I've looked into making mplayer a slave ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt ) but when ...
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Determining media format/encoding for DLNA system
How do you determine what parameters are needed by a DLNA renderer and server?
I have a Samsung TV that is a DLNA renderer. I also have a Western Digital NAS running Debian and have Twonky and ...
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Player or plugin that can transcribe audio to real time subtitles
I'm searching for a Linux player (or a plugin for an existent player) with a similar functionality to Youtube: transcribe the audio to real time subtitles.
I would like this to help me watch videos ...
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Using mplayer inside kvm/qemu
Is it possible to use mplayer inside kvm/qemu configuration?
What video driver should I use?
The only driver that worked was sdl and it was super slow.
EDIT: I just found out that VirtualBox works ...
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Audio/video out of sync when playing MP4s in mplayer
When I try to play MP4 files in mplayer, after a few seconds I get the "Your system is too SLOW to play this!" warning and the video starts lagging behind the audio. It only happens with MP4s, and ...
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Tell mplayer to prevent the screensaver from kicking in while playing
I know mplayer has some heartbeat setting but I don't recall what it is, could anyone tell me?
another one of those annoying things that used to just work and somewhere along the line stopped being ...
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vote
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Keep screen ratio while maximizing mplayer
I have a movie with a 1024x576 resolution while my screen resolution is 1280x800.
How can I keep the ratio of 1024/576 while MPlayer is stretched to the whole screen?
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Do mplayer's audio filters contain the opposite of “Karaoke” Mode?
A friend showed me mplayer's Karaoke mode (-af karaoke), and I was blown away by how good it is on the majority of the tracks I threw at it.
Instead of tweaking the 10-band EQ, is there an audio ...
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Consistent (physical) volume on set of files (volume normalization)
If I have, say, 20 music videos (.flv and .mp4), is there a way to play them in mplayer (mplayer2) without having to change the volume for each video, instead specifying a desired general volume, and ...
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is it possible to use w32codecs on a 64bit system?
Is there any chance I can load binary codecs on 64bit arch linux ? I have few .dat files that works great under 32bit windows xp, with smplayer (after downloading codecs), but on 64bit Linux, I got ...
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Converting dvd to MKV videos, anything wrong here?
I'm converting DVD media to a MKV format video with mencoder:
mencoder dvd://4 -o output.mkv -oac mp3lame -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=20:8x8dct:frameref=4:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b
But the ...
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No output to log from tee when starting mplayer as an arg to gnome-terminal
I want to view mplayer's normal terminal output, and also write it to a log.
That works fine when I run mplayer from the commandline, eg:
mplayer "$HOME/gdr01.wav" 2>&1 |tee $HOME/junk.log
...
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mplayer -msglevel all=-1 doesn't make it completely silent!
I'm trying to open mplayer to play video without any terminal output using this:
mplayer -msglevel all=-1 /path/to/video
also:
mplayer -really-quiet /path/to/video
but it doesn't make it ...
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2answers
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How to timestamp a transcripted talk?
I'm trying to mark each paragraph of transcripted text with timestamps of when/where it occurs in the audio.
mplayer and emacs are getting me close. mplayer, in the terminal, outputs a stream of ...
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1answer
320 views
MEncoder install issue
I'm looking for a simple install guide for mencoder on a linux server via SSH.
Every guide I've come to so far links me to out of date versions.
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how to use nvidia vdpau decoding for mplayer video player in linux?
How can I manage to switch on nvidia vdpau decoding on mplayer video player in Ubuntu 11.04? It doesn't work with default options. I've got the proprietary drivers installed:
dpkg -l nvidia-current
...
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Mplayer2 stuck when I press XF86Audio keys
When mplayer2 got focused, if I press XF86 audio keys, e.g. volume up, it gets stuck for one second then continues to play the video.
If mplayer is not focused, that won't happen.
Is there any way ...
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MPlayer benchmarking - realtime FPS counter
I was trying to use MPlayer as a simple benchmarking tools and I need it to show the real time FPS counter, either on the console or on the video playback itself. I googled around and I stumbled ...
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Problem with RA streaming with mplayer
I am trying to play a .ra streaming with mplayer from this url:
rtsp://mm6.rai.it/radiofonia/radio3/napoli/battiti/2012/battiti2012_10_04.ra
I use to execute the command mplayer rtsp://url.ra, but ...
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How to get GPU acceleration working for my old PC?
I am using an old PC Pentium4 2.4Ghz with nVidia GS 7900 AGP 256MB and I would like to support the video play from GPU. As far what I have read, the support for vdpau has come for nVidida 8 series.
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