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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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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How do I change the artist image in Media Player?
I have this displayed in my Media Player.
Obviously, my album is not by John F. Kennedy. How can I change the artist picture?
This question is not a duplicate of this one, which asks about the legacy ...
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How do I see the FPS of playback in VLC and other video players in windows?
I play animated videos and notice a lag or frame drop.
I learned later that this is due to Japanese anime being not fully animated due to low budgets.
But I want to be sure. Nvidia Geforce FPS ...
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How to play YouTube videos with MPV subtitles?
How to play YouTube video with MPV with subtitles?
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Small, medium and large jump distances in media player classic
In the media player classic there this configuration:
but I can only jump medium distances by left and right arrow keys.
Is there a shortcut key for small and large distances, I tried Shift/CTRL+ ...
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.mov playing the sound but no video
I'am playing a .mov file from VTC but the thing is each time I run the video on VLC player. the .mov is working there is an audio but video seems to be stuck in one place. how can I fix this?
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Groove Music, now "Media Player," won't recognize folders as playlists
Windows 10 (Home) PC user here, OS build 19045.3448. Today is October 6th, 2023, for future reference.
I recently discovered, via trying to play a downloaded folder of music and being surprised when ...
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AIMP 3 Repeats One Track In Playlist
When I'm trying to play a playlist, it plays the first track and then repeats it. How to make it play the next track instead?
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Disable media controls on the Windows 10 lock screen
Pretty simple question, but I haven't been able to find an answer. All I want to do is disable the media player controls that appear on the Windows 10 lock screen. The screenshot below shows what ...
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Overriding Media Keys for Spotify
I've had some success using an autohotkey script* to override the media play/pause key to always control Spotify with the following:
Media_Play_Pause::
WinActivate, ahk_exe spotify.exe
Send {Space}
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How to play multiple videos side-by-side synchronized?
I've got 3 videos, all 3 have the same time, same amount of frames, and they only differ in terms of encoding quality.
Now I need them to run side-by-side in synchronized fashion for evaluation ...
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One IP camera playing, one isn't. Codec incompatibility?
I am new to video codecs and would like to understand my problem better.
I am using Siemens camera display in TIA V17 to display the RTSP streams of some IP cameras...
IP camera A: Supports H264 but ...
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How do I make a (desktop) shortcut to play a specific folder in the new Windows Media Player?
I have experience with you being able to make a shortcut for VLC where you specify VLC's .exe location, then you add "-LZ" with the folder location after that to start playing media (music) ...
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Add new buttons to MPV uosc UI
uosc is a customizable UI for MPV player.
Looking into the uosc.conf file, there is this line about how to create new buttons:
'command:{icon}:{command}' - button that executes a {command} when ...
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Need windows video player with seek preview feature [closed]
I am looking for a windows video player with the seek preview feature, like the one in the Hulu player described as follows: "Seek Preview displays a preview thumbnail when the mouse hovers over a ...
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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 do I find the really good AVS presets for winamp?
I used to have an amazing collection of AVS presets that I slowly built up back in the day. I had probably 500-1000 that I could just let cycle through while I watched music. That was a while ago, ...
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How to enable pitch shifting in MPC?
How can I enable pitch shifting in MPC? I read in Wikipedia that Media Player Classic has pitch shifting but it seems it's not enabled (doesn't work?). I was wondering I have to do something to enable ...
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How to install “libspotify12” on Debian Bullseye?
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye).
I'm trying to install the Tizonia cloud music player for the terminal. I ran the command:
curl -kL https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il/raw/master/...
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How to play two media through different audio devices with MPV?
How can I use MPV to play a video file with audio through one audio device (built-in speakers), and a second audio file through a second audio device (bluetooth headphones).
Play/pause should play/...
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ffmpeg cli settings for the most accurate seeking in the output video
I have a problem with video encoding for HLS stream.
I've found that most video players not support frame accurate seeking or pausing at specific frame and they can't really give us the accurate ...
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MPC HC toolbar in Dark Theme
MPC HC has a dark theme now, but it replaces the toolbar skin.
https://trac.mpc-hc.org/wiki/Toolbar_images
Can the toolbar skin be kept with dark theme?
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Quicktime Player Resizing Window
How can I resize the window while a video is opened with Quicktime Player freely?
For instance resizing the width resizes the length along with it, vice versa. I wouldn't mind to have black bars on ...
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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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How to infinite loop every video I play as defaut on MPV player without having to press shift+L hotkey every single time?
I think the title is clear without filling the body.
Every time I play new video the inf loop is gone and I need to press shift+L again each time. How to just make this my default setting. As far as I ...
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Open a video at a specific time in Media Player Classic
How can I open a video file in Media Player Classic at a specific time in the file?
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Why are subtitles not showing in SMPlayer?
My OS is ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I am using SMPlayer 19.10.2.
Randomly some videos do not display subtitles, gives no error when loading subtitle file… Recently, one of the videos that should display ...
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How to create playlists of local media files without relying on paths?
I'd like to create playlists of locally stored media files, and synchronize these playlists between my devices (desktop/laptop/phone.) However, there's one major point of friction: due to some changes ...
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How can I play a Blu-Ray movie on Google TV without first ripping it to another format?
If I put a Blu-Ray disc into the Blu-Ray drive on my PC, is there an easy way to cast\stream it to my Goolge TV dongle that does not involve ripping the movie first (Just playing it live straight from ...
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How to remember positions within multiple files in Media Player Classic?
I tend to have many instances of Media Player Classic (Best Player in my opinion) open because I switch from one video to another, then pause and go back to it later (as in, hours or days).
Is there ...
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why smplayer don't show subtitle?
When I try to load the subtitle or drag and drop the subtitle on the movie, it does not show any reaction and the subtitle is not displayed. Does anyone have a solution?
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How can i play different music playlists through different output sources on the same media player?
How can I play different music playlists through different output sources on the same media player?
So one Bluetooth speaker playing nirvana. Headphones playing Led Zeppelin. And network speaker ...
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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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Does anybody know how to save and import shortcuts in Windows Media Player Classic?
I find myself resetting Windows a lot and the biggest pain in the neck is setting up Media Player's shortcuts. I wish I could simply save my shortcuts and import them later, without inputting them ...
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How to play media files from folder and subfolders or directory and subdirectories in Windows?
I would like to know how to play media (audio and video) files that are located in a folder and its subfolders using Windows.
I don't want to create a music libraries first. I simply want to click on ...
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How to I disable browsers from registering as Windows 10 media playback sources?
I have one native music streaming application which I keep open almost always and use media controls (play/pause, skip, etc). This app registers with Windows 10 as a media player - awesome.
Frequently ...
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pause media player on specific playback time
Watching movies with my friends, but friends request pausing movie and go out to get smoke. I want to pause movie in pre-selected point where break do not destroy movie atmosphere.
Thinking about some ...
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Subtitles do not appear immediately after I have stopped them and enabled them again
I am using VLC media player to watch movies, and sometimes I enable subtitles with the V hotkey. And they work fine.
But if I accidentally press the V key again, and then one time more, the same line ...
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Is there a media/music player program that has a "biased" shuffle?
I know in iTunes and a few other apps you can get playlists for just "highly rated" songs, but that's not quite what I want. I want to hear the lower-rated stuff, too. If I didn't like the song at ...
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How to “one-click” delete a file that is currently playing on Media Player Classic
Is there a way to do it straight from MPC or could I create a separate program that would detect the file that is currently playing and delete it (I know it is possible to delete files while they are ...
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In PotPlayer is there a way to move OR copy the current playing file to another directory (besides trash)? Or any way with AutoHotKey or similar?
When reviewing multiple video files for Video Editing, and library mgmt, PotPlayer ticks many boxes for fast reviewing, but can't find this.
Thought i'd reach out here for anything I might have ...
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Video players that display audio waveforms [closed]
Are there any programs that can play video and display the audio track as a waveform? I need one for either OSX, Linux, or Windows.
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Is there a way to see a preview of all my video clips within Windows Explorer, just by hovering the mouse, like on YouTube?
I like to know if there's a way, maybe a tool/software that extends Windows Explorer in order to allow me to see a rolling preview of video clips when I hover the mouse over them, just like I'm able ...
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How can I entirely disable browser media integration in KDE Plasma 5?
I'm using a fully updated KDE Neon, currently with KDE Plasma 5.16.3. Using Vivaldi as a web browser.
Plasma has a feature that allows you to control in-browser media players (such as YouTube, but ...
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Access media collection with metadata over DLNA
I've got a big media collection on my main PC, and would like to be able to watch it on different devices (TV, laptop), without having to manually copy files around. A good way to do this seems to be ...
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How can I create bookmarks in VLC Player that persist between sessions?
Using VLC Player & pressing Ctrl + B allows me to save a bookmark for a video, but the problem is that it disappears when the video is unloaded. Would be great if some solution existed to this!
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How to Change Audio Pitch while playing
In the Audacity Audio Editor, in Effect, there is an option for Change Pitch. You can see in the below photo Down and Percent Change.
I usually select Down and change the value of Percent Change to -...
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Why is TWINUI "the best music app for Windows"?
Something on my Windows 10 profile seems to be broken. Trying to double-click on an mp3 file yields "Class not registered":
Selecting "Open with/Choose another app" in the context menu yields:
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How do I get my Logitech media buttons to control Spotify
I have a Logitech diNovo keyboard which includes media buttons for play/pause, stop, next, previous. I would like to let those buttons control Spotify. I've tried to add Spotify to the players.ini ...
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How can I save a playlist to a MP3 player using Foobar2000?
I am using Foobar2000 but have not been able to figure out how to generate a valid playlist that an MP3 player can use.
For example, I have SanDisk Clip Jam MP3 player. It has 5 folders on it, two of ...
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