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How do I create a streamable and seekable MP4?
I want to create an MP4 that supports seeking and streaming. DASH appears to be what I want except that the segment seek points are stored in an external file (the MPD) which doesn't work for my ...
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Adding file date/time to each frame of timelapse made from images in mplayer?
Through the power of the various Stack sites, I've managed to sequence hundreds of jpegs uploaded from a webcam into a timelapse using the following:
mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf fps=60:type=jpg -ovc x264 ...
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Watching video with mplayer without extra terminal window?
I'm trying to watch a video in mplayer, however when I run the command:
mplayer video.flv
the terminal window remains open and another window for the video opens.
Is there a way I can run the ...
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Trimming videos - quicktime vs. mplayer/ffmpeg stack
I have several mp4 video files (H.264, AAC) from which I want to trim a few seconds at the beginning and the end. I used Quicktime Player 7 and MPEG Streamclip for this. The generated files are a bit ...
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Can't type in CLI after running ffmpeg
I get a strange behaviour after running ffmpeg in console and piping its output to mplayer. After I close mplayer's window or I close ffmpeg with Ctrl+C sometimes I can't type anything in that console ...
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ALSA - no surround playback with mplayer
When I run:
speaker-test -c6
...everything is fine. I get 5.1 playback.
However, when I run:
mplayer -channels 6 "some video with 5.1 audio"
no audio plays. Here is what appears in the ...
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How to seek only video with external audio in mplayer?
I have a separate video and audio file. The audio basically would cover only a part of the video. They differ greatly in length with the video being much longer. (My video is several hours long while ...
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Play .cda files with MPlayer
In Windows I have some files ripped from a compact disc. MediaInfo reports their codec as PCM and the file container format as CDDA (Compact Disc for Digital Audio).
They can be played with Windows ...
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Playing separate videos on different monitors on linux?
I'm building a system for a friend's work that has four different videos playing on a loop on different monitors in the business. I've currently set up a Ubuntu 12.04 box with a Radeon HD7850 and am ...
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How to control mplayer subtitle transparency?
Is there a way to set how transparent or opaque the subtitles in mplayer are?
In the docs I've only find the transparency settings for the background, -sub-bg-alpha. (I'd like to set it for the ...
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mplayer fontconfig annoyance on windows
The mplayer build I use on windows reloads the font cache every time I restart my computer. I found out the cause of this is that I clear the temp dir on restart and it keeps the font cache there.
I ...
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SMPlayer does not disable screensaver
I am running SMPlayer 0.8.0 (mplayer frontend) on Linux Mint 14 64bit, when I play a movie and stop using the peripherals the screensaver kicks in after a while.
I have checked the "Disable ...
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How to make mplayer pre-decode video in advance (cache decoded video)?
Mplayer2 using multi-threaded decoding is able to play some h264 videos on my Atom netbook, but in complex scenes the CPU usage gets to 400% and the frames get dropped.
How to make mplayer2 ...
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Mplayer disable font scanning
Sometimes when I play a video in Mplayer, it first scans for fonts which takes ages. How can I skip this? I just want to watch the video. It doesn't have subtitles, so why care about fonts.
This ...
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Is there a command line client for 8tracks.com playback?
I hope I'm not spamming with this kind of question here, but: is there a way to play 8tracks.com playlists from Linux command line using, for example, mplayer or mpg123?
There is the 8tracks.com API, ...
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mplayer crashes when playing vob files
I've installed mplayer on osx using brew. I can play any other file, but when trying to play vobs it crashes. Here's the output:
MPlayer 1.1-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Playing VTS_01_1.VOB.
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How to stop mplayer from terminal after a specific interval of time
I want to make a shell script that runs a particular song in Mplayer for a particular time and then stops ..
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Extract a specific audio passage with Mplayer 1
This is basically a question involving parameters to mplayer (1). (Because I don't know where to look in the docs)
Given that one has a passage of audio starting at -ss 43:20, how does one extract an ...
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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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Problems with freetype on OSX 10.7.4
I'm trying to install mplayer with OSD using homebrew. I've added both --enable-menu and --with-freetype-config=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.4.10/freetype-config to the brew recipe.
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How to do something like `mplayer movie.mpg` from ssh and it play on the current display?
I've set up a little media center computer running Arch Linux.
I want to eventually get it so that there is no keyboard or mouse required. Right now I want the solution to be SSH. My problem is that ...
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Control mplayer ran by xargs
I feed mplayer with file list from another command:
beet ls somequery -p | xargs -d '\n' mplayer
When invoked this way, mplayer doesn't react on any standard keys, all I can do is to C-c interrupt ...
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How to set mplayer to start in the secondary display ? (.conf)
I'm using mplayerosx-builds for video playback. How can I set mplayer to start in the secondary screen by default (using the .mplayer/.config file)?
OS: Lion 10.7.4
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mplayer stutters after being paused in Ubuntu
I have version what I believe to be version 1 of mplayer installed on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as am unsure what the colon refers to i.e. 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1. Would appreciate it if someone can point ...
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Having trouble reading a YUV video with mplayer/mencoder
I'm making some experiences with the YUV raw video format. This YUV video I created (with ppmtoy4m from mjpegtools, from a series of screenshots taken at 24 fps) plays OK with Totem, correct rate, ...
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Mplayer doesn't prevent screensaver in Ubuntu
I'm trying to watch a movie using mplayer, and despite putting stop-xscreensaver=yes in my /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file, and also starting mplayer using the -stop-xscreensaver, I still have to sit ...
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How to make mplayer or VLC start playing video at strict time?
I want mplayer and VLC start playing at exact time. Player should:
Load video file, buffer it, prepare everything;
Wait for UNIX time to be N seconds M milliseconds
Start playing according to ...
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mplayer mute stdout and supress get focus on loop
I use this
type mplayer
mplayer is aliased to `mplayer -fs -noconsolecontrols -loop 0'
to play files. I would like to mute the stdout stuff so I could keep bash to do other things by running ...
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Totem and MPlayer not displaying video correctly in Mint 11
Whenever I try to play a video file in Totem or MPlayer (I've tested OGV, MP4, MPG), it displays in very odd ways (depending on program). Videos play fine in VLC, Banshee, Google Chrome etc. I think I ...
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MPlayer refuses to generate mono wav file
I want to downsample an existing audio file to 8KHz mono. This command line downsamples it to stereo:
mplayer -quiet -vo null -vc dummy -af volume=0,resample=8000:0:1 -ao ...
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Delaying screenshot from webcam with mplayer
is there a way to delay screenshotting on mplayer?
The parameter "-ss" doesnt work, because its not a seekable input.
Currently im using:
mplayer -nosound tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1 ...
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How to stop mplayer from moving mouse pointer?
I noticed that mplayer moves mouse cursor every 10 seconds:
ltrace -e ...
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How to pause mplayer whenever I switch to another window?
I'm using mplayer-gui and would like to have it pause whenever I switch to another window and playback when I switch back.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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How can I overlay dynamic text on a video during playback?
I am using a spare linux (Ubuntu 10.04) box (os is non-negotiable) to playback videos while riding on a bike trainer. Additionally, I have a bluetooth heart monitor and I'd like to display my realtime ...
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How to play 1080p on an old computer (AMD Sempron)?
I'm using an old computer - Sempron 2600+ (1600 MHz) and 1250 MB of RAM to play a 1080p avi video.
Is there a way to play it smoothly?
What player should I use?
How about Mplayer and playing the file ...
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Dump/load metadata with FFmpeg (WMA to MP3)
I need to convert WMA metadata into MP3 ID3 tags. FFmpeg should be able to dump them into a file and load them back to another using implemented mappers. I cannot find syntax of usage though:
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Reassess media file size in mplayer
I have two computers on the same wireless network (same subnet). Lets call them computer-A and computer-B. All my media files are on computer-B. I want to be able to play the file on computer-A using ...
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Subtitles appearing as squares
I was trying a new player called MPlayerX on OSX. It is showing subtitles as squares as shown below. It seems to be a problem with the settings. I tried different fonts, but it doesn't solve the ...
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mplayer/mencoder subtitle rendering thick, crude, unreadable
I installed the Slackware 13.37 package MPlayer-1.0rc4-i686-3sl.txz along with all of the available codecs, etc. I also have freetype-2.4.4-i486-1.txz installed for font rendering.
For my first dvd ...
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How to get around nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily unavailable in mplayer?
I am trying to capture a stream using mplayer using the -dumpstream option:
mplayer -dumpstream mms://<url> -dumpfile out.wmv
But I'm always getting this error after several tens of ...
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Transcoding from DVD to MP4 and intentionally skip frames in the middle
I have a DVD that I'd like to transcode from a DVD format to MP4 so I can play it on my iPad. Normally this is trivially easy as I could use Handbrake. But this has an interesting twist.
Around ...
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Improve priority of mplayer-pulseaudio-Xorg combination
I'm often having mplayer running on the side (e.g. watching television). However, this occasionally doesn't run too smoothly (granted, the CPU and GPU are also a bit weak).
I've already running ...
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gnome-mplayer on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) subtitles are on top. Why?
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) gnome-mplayer started to show subtitles at the top of the screen, "toptitles" rather then subtitles.
Anyone know how to configure gnome-mplayer to show the ...
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Run mplayer from bash in background without extra bash
I would like to watch a movie with mplayer from bash in the background, like I do with all programs and there has never been any problems:
mplayer Kick* &
if you'd like to see Kickboxer, for ...
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How to get length of video file from console?
Suppose we have video file some_video.
How to get length of it from a shell script (with mplayer/transcode/gstreamer/vlc/ffmpeg/whatever)?
VIDEO_LENGTH_IN_SECONDS=`ffmpeg .... -i some_video ... | ...
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mplayer seek times seem fixed. Can they be customized?
Does mplayer actually allow custom seek times? ie. change the default 10s to 4s.
I'm running mplayer natively in the terminal. ie. not via a gui wrapper such as smplayer.
Nothing changes when I ...
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How do I stop KDE from dimming the screen while mplayer is fullscreen?
Whenever KDE (I think) detects no mouse or keyboard activity for a while, it dims my laptop screen, then turns it off. I don't want that when I'm watching a movie.
Is there a setting somewhere to ...
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Keep mplayer open after video playback
Is it possible to make mplayer freeze in the last frame of the video instead of closing?
I am using CLI version of mplayer in linux.
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How to save mplayer's output when watching in ASCII mode (with aalib)
I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo ...
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mplayer can't read from streamripper relay
To use the same bandwidth for ripping and playing a stream I start a relay when ripping with streamripper :
$ streamripper -r link2stream
And to play it :
$ vlc http://localhost:8000
With vlc ...
