Questions tagged [media-player]
Media players can run audio video files. Many media players also support library management for audio & video files.
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Why does iTunes display a different total play length and size in the status bar in different views?
In iTunes 12 (.4.0.119) different total play length times and total media sizes are displayed in the status bar when in different views of the same media type, music.
For example; when in album grid ...
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Use earphones remote controller on Windows
Luckily for me, my computer recognizes presses on the Apple EarBuds' remote:
Each time the green bar goes up, it is because I pressed the middle button on the remote (The one between volume up and ...
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Trouble playing 1080p HEVC format on VLC, MPC, Potplayer
I am having trouble playing HEVC 1080p file on my system. I don't have a really strong PC, but I will give the facts:
Ram: 2GB
OS: Win 7 ultimate
processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core T4500 @2.3Ghz
Graphic ...
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Windows: Creating global key mapping
I'd like to create a global key mapping in Windows 10 to emulate a dedicated "next song" button (my keboard only has a play/pause button). How do I do this?
Incidentally, I'm surprised this is so ...
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How to open second instance of program with a hotkey?
I used to remember how to do this, use some sort of hotkey to open a second instance of a program that doesn't support it, for example windows media player 12. I have tried WIN+Shift+(number) to open ...
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How to play a movie listening to two sound tracks simultaneously?
I have movie files with multiple audio tracks (in the MKV container). I want to watch a movie while sending one language to the speakers (for the kids) and another language to the headphones (for ...
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Media Player Classic HC (K-Lite Codecs) Mutes my system when playing some files
As the title states, I'm trying to play some videos in K-Lite Codec Pack (12.0.1) MPC-HC (1.7.10.101), and when the track is playing my system stops being able to produce sound on my speakers. (pause ...
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How can I make mpv show the duration counter constantly?
I use the mpv video player in Linux. With the keys Shift+P, I can see the duration of the video I am watching.
How can I set mpv to show the duration all the time (without the need of pressing Shift+...
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Keyboard media keys force assigned to Grove Music (Windows 10 and Logitech K400 Plus)
My keyboard's media keys recognize Grove Music as standard media player and I can't change it. I'am using "Logitech Options" manager, because "SetPoint" manager not compatible with this keyboard. I ...
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Do most music CDs contain the needed info about their tracks?
I see that many audio players (I mean multimedia software like Winamp or Foobar2000) have the ability of searching music information on databases like CDDB. Shouldn't such info already be available on ...
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How to prevent VLC from opening a window that is too big? [duplicate]
Sometimes VLC may open a small window. But sometimes it will open a window that is like 90% of the entire screen making clicking the controls very hard.
Is there a way to set a consistent size for ...
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How to do ReplayGain for music videos?
I have a playlist of several music videos, but the videos have different loudness.
I want to play the playlist so that the loudness of each video would be the same, without the need to manually ...
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Is there a Media player that can skip the silent parts of an audio/video? [closed]
Is there a Media player that can skip the silent parts of an audio/video?
While watching lectures, it is annoying to be stuck in the real time and going at the same rate of the actual thing, where ...
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How to shuffle videos with specifics videos in between
I have nearly 1000 video songs and i want to shuffle them and add specific video (Like Ads) in between them. So when i play videos with shuffle, after every 2-3 songs Ad video will be played.
Is it ...
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How do I temporarily disable video output on PotPlayer?
I'm using PotPlayer in workplace. It is allowed for people to listen to an audio file in the background here, but I think it may cause a problem if they see me watching video. Is there a way of ...
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Customize media key behavior
You know these keyboards that have special keys to control media players? Like Play/Pause, Forward, Backwards etc.
I'm not entirely happy about their behavior and would like to change it.
As it is ...
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video player that shows milliseconds
I need to play MP4 files on my win7 which apart from minutes and seconds, should display the milliseconds.
I currently have GOM, VLC and MPC-HC. (Note that I want to use a regular lightweight video ...
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Why my .mov video not showing any video but just audio is playbacked?
I'm learning & going through some tutorials in .mov format, but for some videos I cannot see any videos, but listen to just audios...
I'm running those through VLC & Media Player Classic Home ...
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Microsoft software overriding media controls
I'm having a problem with Microsoft Office 2013 overriding some of the media control keys on my keyboard.
The keyboard has all the normal keys to control my media player (I'm using MediaMonkey): ...
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What all factors affect the ability of a video player to play a particular file?
I am trying to determine what all factors decide whether a file can be played by a particular video player, such as software or dvd player or TV with usb function or any media player.
Are there other ...
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Play 2 media files synchronously with one set of controls for both
I have 2 media files:
Video+(2x)audio (Movie).
Audio (Commentary).
Commentary audio track starts with an offset before the movie starts.*
I need to be able to(simultaneously):
See the video track ...
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is there windows media player in Windows 8 Enterprise N
I have installed my laptop with windows 8 Enterprise N, but windows media player didn't installed with the operating system, i have repeated this two times but there is not. does the windows media ...
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MP3 file seek is bugged
I face an issue with certain MP3 files downloaded from YouTube, which get somehow corrupted.
When I try to seek using the seekbar of a Media Player before 30 seconds it just restarts the MP3, while ...
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How to get Foobar to be as WinAmp'y as possible?
I want to switch away from the terrible memory-eating monster that is WinAmp, and foobar2000 keeps coming up as an alternative. However, it's myriad plug-ins and weird UI are kind of daunting to me. ...
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Player for playing .mp4sub files
I have just downloaded a bunch of .mp4 files, which are accompanied by .mp4sub files. There are exactly three .mp4sub (named b, c and d) files for each .mp4 (named a). Example pattern:
a_Astra.mp4,
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Pipe a list of files into vlc and mpc
I'm trying to pipe a list of all my files that start with "m" in my music folder. This line grabs all of my filenames correctly. I'm using windows 7 command line.
dir /s /b | findstr -i -r "\\m[^\\\\]...
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How to get my USB 3 hard drive working with a USB 2 device
I recently bought a 2TB USB 3.0 hard drive to keep my family videos and photos. I want to use it with my Sumvision Micro Cyclone Micro 2 media player. The player works perfectly with an older hard ...
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How can I control a remote streaming VLC player with a local VLC player?
I know VLC player can stream video and audio in several ways, and that it also has web interface along with some other ways to control it remotely. But can I make a local VLC player be able to control ...
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How to get Clementine to play AAC files (on Windows)?
I just installed the Clementine audio player. I like it, but it doesn't play my .aac files. This Ubuntu forum post suggests this is due to decoder licensing issues, and necessitates installing the ...
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How can I create a self-running DVD?
How can I make a DVD movie with its own player, means the disc has a DVD player that runs automatically when you put it in the computer?
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A software to play videos very fast?
I have security camera recordings whose video files are 1 - 8 hours in duration and I need to be able to view them in a short period of time to review long periods of time.
Windows Media Player ...
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"Now playing hotkey" media player addon or software for *nix? [closed]
Looking for an addon/app or media player that provides a 'Now Playing' hotkey output to clipboard feature, similar to that of AMIP (advanced mIRC integration plugin) that runs natively in Linux - ...
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How change the layout (e.g. background-color) of autoplaylists in foobar2000?
A nice feature of the highly customizable music player foobar2000 is to generate autoplaylists. Autoplaylists are filtered lists of music that automatically update when you add new music to your ...
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Drag audio files out of a media player
I recall a feature in an older Amarok version (Linux), where you could select tracks in your music library and drag them out of the player, directly to a folder on your harddrive. Does anyone know of ...
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vlc plays only grey screen with some moving parts
I have got some problem with vlc media player after some updates on ubuntu 12.04. Audio and subtitles works fine, but the picture is just grey. I have tried some other output settings
x11 video ...
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iTunes playback skipping on some songs
A client of mine has called me with a bizarre problem. The PC he runs his music from (~200GB of it) uses iTunes and it has started skipping (or stuttering) at the start of some songs when the ...
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Is there way to not replace existing MPC-playlist when double click media file?
So my problem is that I have some pre-made playlist and when i open any media file this playlist is overwrite with new one that contain only this file.
It is possible to add file that I opened at the ...
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Make Windows go to sleep regardless of playing media
Is there a way to make Windows 7 sleep/hibernate no matter if a media player is playing music/movies or not?
I'm asking because I've had times when I'm listening to music while I'm on the PC and when ...
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Is it possible to set my media keys to control ONLY the media player volume (not system volume)?
I have a Logitech G110 keyboard.
The volume scroller on my keyboard controls both my system volume and the volume of whatever media player is running at the time (currently Foobar).
Is it possible ...
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Media player apps do not react to media keys when they lose the focus
You may noticed that Windows Media Player will react to keyboards media keys even when its windows does not have focus. But other media player software that I have tested (PotPlayer,KMplayer) do not ...
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Music player that resumes where last paused [closed]
Winamp is going away and I like to listen to podcasts. I have to download them from home as my work has a non-streaming policy (even though we have a subway tunnel of an internet pipe, whatever). I ...
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Media library with variable availability [closed]
I have a collection of movies:
A laptop might have a subset of these internally; the complete library might be available on a connected external disk. Various subsets might be available in the ...
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Cannot seek ahead in songs started by Windows Media Player, but can when played by WMP?
If I am in Library > Music in Windows Media Player and I double-click a song or album, it starts playing, but I cannot skip ahead in the song. Clicking the seek bar restarts the song. However, when ...
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windows - chrome/firefox can play sound but media players cannot
On my Windows 7 Laptop, sound recently stopped working in WMP/VLC/MPC/iTunes/QuicMPCkTime, however, sound continues to work in chrome, firefox and IE. dxdiag reports no errors.
My sound card is a ...
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A full-buffered media player which would load the whole media file [closed]
Well, everyone knows (I mean a lot of superpower users) that all kinds of multimedia applications need to read a part of the media files into the memory, and after processing, play that part for the ...
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VLC Media Player - Extremely long delays before some DVDs play / show any menu
With some DVDs there's a long delay before a movie begins. No menus, nothing.
With a couple of movies it's an extremely long delay (For example Hollow Man finally shows a menu after about 7.5 minutes ...
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Output script to audio in Ubuntu?
I am playing around with algorithmic and generative music (at this point it's all generative noise).
I have a simple Python script which outputs numbers (ala "bytebeats"). I want to listen to the ...
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Software to rip CD during playback?
Is it possible for me to play an audio CD and at the same time (i.e. concurrently with the playback) rip/convert the played tracks to MP3? If yes, how can I do this on Windows?
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How to delete multiple files from an MTP device?
How may I delete multiple selected files from an MTP device in a single operation?
Though Delete on a single file succeeds, on multiple files it fails, saying No such interface is supported, as here:
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looking for suggestions for a basic music media player [closed]
I'm not really sure where to start looking, but I'd need a basic mp3 & wma player for windows 7 (free if possible). I don't want something that will waste my RAM and CPU, and I don't want to ...