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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 watch GoToMeeting videos on ArchLinux?
I have problem watching recorded meetings on ArchLinux.
This is the output from mplayer:
MPlayer SVN-r34426-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
181 audio & 384 video codecs
mplayer: could not ...
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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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Stream piped audio to iOS device over HTTP
I'm trying to stream SiriusXM to my iPhone the "back way" because the official app doesn't work. There is a python script called pyxis that pipes data into mplayer and plays it locally. Is it possible ...
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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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How to add watermark to mplayer?
I'm trying to add a watermark for mplayer for a IP TV project. I don't want to encode the source movies, but just want that mplayer displays an image on top of the movie, without changing the movie. ...
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How can I play different audio streams simultaneously?
I'd like to achieve the following using a 7.1 soundcard on a Debian system: play a video (including audio) and then, independently (not synchronized) play an audio file on another channel.
I could ...
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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 ...
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Are there any good mplayer tutorials?
Are there any good mplayer tutorials aimed at newbies? I know about man mplayer, but it's too complex to start from there.
Please don't suggest using any mplayer front ends!
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mplayer over 2 screens
I recently found an mplayer command line example that plays a video over 2 screens (nvidia twinview)
but I lost it somehow.
So does anyone know how to play a video with mplayer and have it stretch ...
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3D and message about surface locking
I would like to ask if someone knows: if I see a message like "mplayer.exe locked the primary surface for 3 times" should I be worried ?
The mplayer though runs the video fullscreen, and after or ...
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How to improve performance of mplayer with libcaca?
I'm using mplayer and libcaca on Gentoo. My framebuffer (uvesafb) is running at 1920x1200 (I don't know how many characters that is) and mplayer has problems filling up the screen, so video and audio ...
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linux: How to sync two video players on two computers?
Two GNU/Linux computers are playing the same video with mplayer (or vlc or whatever).
How to sync the pause/seeking/FFw between them. Like when I press pause on master computer, the other one is also ...
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`mencoder` captures 10 minutes of audio in less than 10 minutes. How come?
I'm using mencoder to capture audio from a Encore ENLTV-FM3 video capture device. I have recently noticed that, since one week ago, when the machine was forcibly restarted due to a power outage, all ...
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How to have a soft-real-time process in presense of heavily swapping IO-intensive background load?
schedtool: PID 32301: PRIO 4, POLICY R: SCHED_RR , NICE -20, AFFINITY 0xf
ionice: realtime: prio 4
But the music is stumbling anyway.
Background load is low prio (SCHED_IDLEPRIO, idle ...
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How to adjust and combine multiple lower quality photos into one better using FOSS?
I have multiple noisy photos (caputed without tripod) that needs to be adjusted (moved/rotated) and averaged.
How it's better to do it in Linux with FOSS console-based programs?
Current way is ...
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How to add/remove codecs in linux
Friends,
I'm new to Linux, I need to work on Linux. I have ported Linux to AT91SAM9261-EK board. Now i need to work on Codecs. I just know the definition of codec from wikipedia, Now i need add my ...
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why can I watch it with gnome-mplayer but not with mplayer?
This should be a very elementary question. I have a URL like
http://SERVERNAME/file.wmv. When I enter it in "Open Location" in
gnome-mpLayer it connects to the server and plays the stream. But when
I ...
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decrypting a dvd and testing that it is decrypted and playing it locally with its menu?
I have a DVD , it may be decrypted. How do I get it to hard drive decrypt it and see if it is decrypted?
I have got it to hard drive... I can get VOB files to play(does that mean it is not ...
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Problem playing multiple files in MPlayer OSX Extended
I have certain video files setup to be opened by MPlayer OSX Extended by default. If I click on one of these files, and the video finishes playing, then when I click on another file, it won't play. I ...
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How to get jubler to work with mplayer in OSX
I'm trying to use the preview in Jubler. In the external plugin wizard, when I browse to the directory where mplayer is and click on it, the program doesn't do anything. It just freezes. If I let the ...
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i have 800x600 resolution on my video card. How to see video with mplayer and video with AVC 1024 x 552
Is there any way to see that ?
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mkv container increase quality. Which hardware needed for good quality?
I have pentium 4 3Ghz and 3Gb RAM, Riva TNT2 nvidia graphics adapter. Im playing video with linux console player mplayer. How can i determine an enough computer architecture for a good performance of ...
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Is there a better mplayer command line interface, or another good CLI music player?
I generally prefer to do things on the command line when I can. Mplayer is a great tool for playing all sorts of media, but the command line interface sucks. Some things I'd like to see in a CLI media ...
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Repairing a 3GP file
I was recording a video with my Droid when it froze. The resulting 3gp file was corrupted. I tried playing it in mplayer and VLC. My naive first attempt at repairing it was to try and rebuild a header ...
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Install mplayer on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Have anyone experienced installing mplayer on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.3)?
I have stuck for a whole day trying everything from install using source code, download the dmg and extract the binary ...
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Alternatives to y4mstabilizer; deshaking video
"Deshaking" means fixing the video captured from camera hold in hands.
Is there open source video deshaker apart from y4mstabilizer from mjpegtools? Patch for mencoder is preferred.
My current ...
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how to use time out in mplayer?
I am trying to save audio using mplayer from a live http stream.
saving audio is successful.
If there is no live stream playing it does not exit automatically.
Is there any way to set timeout if ...
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mplayer (mplayerhq.hu) repeats ending audio frames
mplayer (from mplayerhq.hu) on windows repeats the last few audio frames upon exit.
When the video ends, before you can see
Exiting... (End of file)
in the command prompt, you will hear the ...
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Why can't mplayer/libdvdcss/whatever play my DVDs?
To put it bluntly, mplayer is unable to correctly play video DVDs. It seems to correctly find the title and everything, but the picture is broken or not displayed at all, with messages like:
a52: CRC ...
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Slow down video playing
I was wondering how to slow down video playing in VLC Player and in MPlayer Movie Player.
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Nice way to show Powerpoints and Video
I'm looking for a sleek way to display Powerpoint presentations and video footage in sequence.
Embedding video in .ppsx is not something i want to do, reasons are plenty (video footage being VC-1 ...
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How to convert video to images?
How can I convert a video file to a sequence of images, for example one frame every N seconds. Can mplayer or ffmpeg do this? I have used MPlayer to grab screenshots manually but I would like to ...
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Linux Mplayer Instead of flash any distro/browser
The thing is that flash sucks for linux on 64-bit, performance vice. Due to this I actually download every clip to a temp folder and play the file while it's being downloaded with mplayer. This works ...
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mplayer timestamp not disappearing
I'm using Linux Mint 8 64bit with Google Chrome Unstable (same problem with beta).
When a video is playing, the time elapsed and total time stay on the screen:
Is there a way to make this ...
