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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 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 disable subtitles?

When I play videos in mplayer it sometimes shows subtitles. How can I turn them off? And can I change mplayer.conf so they are off by default?
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Is it possible to completly remove Ubuntu's video player "totem"?

To watch videos, I use Mplayer, which works great. But Ubuntu insists on playing every video file it encounters with "Totem", which I guess is a video player. I use linux primarily on my laptop, and ...
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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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get mplayer to start with a default volume other than 25%

I want to configure mplayer conf so that the player's default volume is not 25%. I have to increase the volume via the keyboard with every song/flick. I can only find solutions that simply over-...
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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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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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Why is VLC slower than MPV/MPlayer?

Every time I try to seek a local video with VLC, there is a noticable lag, as opposed to MPlayer/MPV, no matter what "ultrafast" x264 presets or loop filter skipping is used. What's the fundamental ...
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mplayer - Scale video to window size

When I open a video with mplayer2 it "scales" to my window size. E.g. The original being 720p. When I open the same file with mplayer it displays the video in its default resolution it seems, only ...
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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 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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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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Play audio-only file with subtitles, possibly use some still image as stub

Is it possible to make mplayer display subtitles while playing an audio-only file? I've already tried: mplayer filename.mp3 -sub filename.srt but no luck - it just doesn't creates a viewport as ...
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Is it possible to delete an MP3 file currently played in mplayer?

I would like to remove an MP3 file that is currently being played back in mplayer. If possible I would like to do it with an mplayer command. So that I don't have to quit mplayer and delete this file ...
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Is there a better mplayer command line interface, or another good CLI music player? [closed]

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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Get mplayer to display current time in hours and minutes

By default mplayer displays the current location in the video in seconds, which is less than useless. Example: A:4086.2 V:4086.2 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.039 0/ 0 17% 2% 2.1% 3 0 ^--------^----- ...
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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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Watching DVDs in Linux

I run Ubuntu 8.10 and many DVDs won't play for me and I don't know why. Is there more software that I need to install outside the default install? Neither Totem or Mplayer will play the DVDs.
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Is there a command line client for 8tracks.com playback? [closed]

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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Saving Live Video received through Netcat

I'm using the following command to stream a video which I receive through Netcat. nc -l -p 5001 | mplayer -fps 31 -cache 1024 - (On Windows CMD) This command opens the MPlayer and plays the live ...
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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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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: http://...
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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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Which multimedia container format is the most suited for storing/streaming uncompressed audio + video?

I want to pipe uncompressed audio+video from one process to another. It means it should be packed into some container. Which one is the best suited for the task? I tried ffmpeg -i ... -vcodec ...
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how to play audio files with crossfading on Linux?

Is it possible to play audio files with a crossfading effect (track i fades out, track i+1 fades in) on Linux? A special case is when a single track is repeated in an endless loop. I'm using mplayer, ...
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How to set large, 3 minute, audio delay in video MPlayer?

I have a video where sound lags about 3 minutes behind video. I tried both MPlayer and VLC to play it. MPlayer refuses to start with error message: The delay option must be <= 100.000000: 180. ...
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Which has the best codec support: Mplayer or VLC?

So, put everything else asside. Forget the interface, the extra functions, the speed, or whatnot. Which of these two media players supports the largest number of video codecs right out of the box? In ...
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How to change pitch of music in mplayer?

How to change the pitch of the sound file mplayer? I want to make my music sound lower, but not change the speed.
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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 do I play a local DVD copy in "DVD mode" using Xine and/or Mplayer?

I have a local copy of entire DVD's VIDEO_TS directory. How can I use Xine or Mplayer to play it in a "DVD mode"? That means for me: that menus are recognized as such, I can select language and ...
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What is the easiest way to scale a Quicktime MOV to a different size in Windows?

I've tried a ffmpeg, and it doesn't know how to read Quicktime MOV, neither does VirtualDub. Avidemux crashes when I open the Quicktime MOV. In Linux, I'd just use MEncoder, but I'm telling someone ...
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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 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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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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Disable embedded art/cover on music playback in mplayer

folks. Recently I noticed, that console mplayer started to show embedded art/cover during music playback if there are some. Not it just produce a useless window, it will actually somehow heavily load ...
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Extracting subtitles from MKV files with ffmpeg or mplayer

An MKV file containing multiple sets of subtitles refuses to play them on a SmartTV or similar devices, seeing no subtitles at all. mplayer manages the file without problems. Here's what is in the ...
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Save mplayer output to file when using libcaca backend

I want to play a video using mplayer -vo caca and then save the resulting video to a file. Is there a way to take that output and save it, or is there another program I can use to get the same effect?...
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mplayer on windows loading input.conf

I have a copy of mplayer.exe for windows, version Sherpya-SVN-r30369-4.2.5. mplayer makes a directory mplayer within which is a single file, config. I have put options in here for video output and ...
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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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Tell mplayer to keep listening to audio stream that pauses

I am using mplayer to stream audio coming from an MPD instance that is configured to output via HTTP: mplayer http://<stream-URL>:<port> The stream is controlled by an MPD client (...
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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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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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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 video ...
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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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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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Play WEBM music on Debian headless

I'm able to play .mp3, .ogg, .m4a, etc., but .webm does not work. The error I get is: Playing La Caution-Thé à la Menthe Instrumentale.webm. [mkv] Unknown/unsupported audio codec ID 'A_OPUS' for ...
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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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Why does MPlayer OSX Extended generate fontconfig on my desktop?

I use MPlayer OSX Extended as my primary video player. However, every time I play a video, a fontconfig folder appears on my desktop containing a few random .cache-3 files. Deleting this folder will ...
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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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