Questions tagged [mplayer]

MPlayer is a free and open source media player.

The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available.

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Re-sampling H264 video to reduce frame rate while maintaining high image quality

Here's the mplayer output for a video of interest: br@carina:/tmp$ mplayer foo.mov mplayer: Symbol `ff_codec_bmp_tags' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not…
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playing a specific interval of a video in mplayer using command line option

I am using mplayer to play videos... I wanted to know if there are command line options to play a specific interval of a video in mplayer? For example, if I want to play a video file from 56 secs for a duration of 3 secs, then what would the command…
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rtsp stream capturing

I'm looking for some universal way to dump rtsp stream. I want to figure out, that some rtsp stream is working well and server is sending some watchable video. openRTSP At first, google recommends me openRTSP tool. openRTSP -4 ${stream_link} >…
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how to stream live videos with no latency (ffplay, mplayer) and what kind of wrapper could be used with ffplay?

I have been testing playing multiple live streams using different players because I wanted to get the lowest latency value. I tried gstreamer player (gst-launch-0.01), mplayer, totem and ffmpeg player (ffplay). I used different configuration values…
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Is it possible to control mplayer from another program easily?

I'm setting up a computer running OpenBSD that I wish to play all the music I will ever want. I want it to basically set in a corner and do it's thing. The problem with that is that I want to control it from wherever I am. I can do that (though not…
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How to extract frames using mencoder into specific directory?

I can't seem to extract images into a specific directory. The current command I am running is mplayer -vo jpeg CustomLogoAni.mp4 Is it also possible to set the prefix for the file? Similar to ffmpeg %d.jpg When combining the images I run the…
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osx - Playing youtube videos in terminal as text using mpv or mplayer with libcaca or aalib?

I installed via homebrew: brew install mplayer mpv libcaca aalib to try to play videos as text in my terminal. Using mplayer, I tried aa: youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxk4mveLCw -o - | mplayer -cache 64000 -vo aa - and also…
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How can i create a stable checksum of a media file?

how can i create a checksum of only the media data without the metadata to get a stable identification for a media file. preferably an cross platform approach with a library that has support for many formats. e.g. vlc, ffmpeg or mplayer. (media…
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disable XQuartz and revert to mavericks's default x server

I have installed XQuartz 2.7.5 on Mavericks. After that videos I play with mplayer seems to load on a separate window, all white stuck with only the audio playing. I have disabled Xquartz by disabling…
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Is there a command to stop and pause mplayer using the PId?

I am playing mplayer from my qt application using the play button. I have two buttons called pause and stop. For play button I used system ("mplayer "+s.toAscii()+"&"); where s is the playlist. For the pause button I used system("p"); but it is not…
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How do you open an audio file in mpv using the terminal without the album art opening along with it?

I have an arch linux based ditro and I'm trying to open up an audio file (mp3 and flac files) in the terminal using the following command: $ mpv song.flac If the audio file doesn't contain any album art, it opens up in the terminal and starts…
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Pipe all keyboard commands automatically to an embedded mplayer instance when a modifier key is pressed in pyqt4

This is a follow up question to this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11939294/406686: Consider the following code, which embeds mplayer in a QWidget. The problem is that it doesn't react to any mplayer keyboard shortcuts such as right arrow for…
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How can I create an MPlayer playlist with a shell script?

I am trying to create a shell script in Linux that when executed searches a directory for all media files then creates a playlist and plays it with MPlayer.
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Creating a Motion JPEG frame by frame with variable frame-rate

I'm analyzing a number of solutions to the problem that I have in hand: I'm receiving images from a device and I need to make a video file out of it. However, the images arrive with a somewhat random delay between them and I'm looking for the best…
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libcaca - changing ascii glyphs to Katakana

I am creating a video effect that is supposed to look as in "Matrix" movie, but a bit different ("Matrix"-like video output will be mixed with an altered alpha channel with real video, so it will look half real, half with digits). I am using simply…
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