Questions tagged [mplayer]
A freeware, open-source, media player. Available for all major Operating Systems; Linux, UNIX-like systems, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System.
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How to extract one frame of a video every N seconds to an image?
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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How to sync two looping videos with mplayer and upd?
I am trying to sync two instances of mplayer with -upd-master and -udp-slave, and notice that the slave staggers for about a second when the master begins the loop anew.
I am running debian 7.1 with ...
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How can I get the length of a video file from the console?
Suppose we have a video file some_video.
How can I get its length from a shell script (with mplayer/transcode/gstreamer/vlc/ffmpeg/whatever)?
VIDEO_LENGTH_IN_SECONDS=`ffmpeg .... -i some_video ... | ...
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How to make mplayer use subtitles?
I am trying to use subtitles with a mkv file in the following way:
mplayer video.mkv
mplayer -sub video.srt video.mkv
mplayer video.mkv -sub video.srt
but only the video did play, but without any ...
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What does the at symbol (@) with IPs mean in ffmpeg and vlc?
In vlc, ffmpeg, and mplayer, I see some docs and forum posts that start an IP with an at symbol, e.g., udp://@239.192.1.31:1234. Other times, I see it used to replace localhost, e.g. rtp://@:8005. ...
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How to compile/install mplayer on MacOS with subtitle support?
This is a followup question to this question:
In order to play video files with a sub title file on MacOS 10.13.6: How to install mplayer so that I am able to use subtitles (when using the command-...
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MPlayer halts when I exit the SSH session in Linux
I want to launch MPlayer via SSH and let it run (I’m a radio fan). For this I SSH to my remote machine (a Cubietruck running LUbuntu) and I issue the following command:
screen mplayer -playlist .path/...
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Mplayer's synchronization playback not working for more than two videos locally
I'm using Mplayer to playback four (security) videos in sync locally.
For the first video, I'm running:
mplayer -udp-master -udp-ip 192.168.0.255 1_01_R_072018150000.avi
For each of the ...