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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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Python: Parse stream title with mplayer

I'm writing a simple frontend in Python to play and record internet radio channels (e.g. from shoutcast) using mplayer (in a subprocess). When a user clicks a station the following code is run: url = http://77.111.88.131:8010 # only an example cmd…
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Avoiding visual artifacts when embedding MPlayer in PyGTK

I'm trying to create a basic PyGTK app to embed MPlayer inside a window (since it otherwise doesn't work well with tiling WM's, which I like). I'll put my code so far at the end of this post, but basically my setup currently involves a Window…
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Linux tee command with multiple fifo. fifo blocks tee

I am trying to develope one program to play and record some rtmp streames. The program is developed in Qt. i am using the rtmpdump and mplayer. since both are running in seperate process, i am using a fifo to pass the stream from rtmpdump to…
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MPlayer: change sound pitch and speed independently

I have spent some time experimenting with MPlayer slave mode protocol: in a custom application I have two controls: one for changing pitch and one for changing speed. This is easy to implement using the scaletempo filter and *speed_set* /…
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How do I create an EDL (Edit Decision List) file using SMPlayer

I'm trying to find out how to create a .edl (Edit Decision List) file using SMPlayer. I know how to do it using mplayer (i.e. mplayer -edlout file.edl). But I can't figure it out for SMPlayer. All I could find is how to play a video using an .edl…
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Subprocess.Popen stops ( or malfunctions) after a few seconds

I am a complete beginner so apologies for any mistakes. This is my code in Python 3.5. It executes in Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 3. import subprocess radio = subprocess.Popen(["mplayer",…
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How do I get a MP3 file's details (like the author, title, album, year, etc.) with not too complicated coding?

I just want a simple piece of code that can give me the author, album, year, title and genre from a mp3 file. If one can, in the form of variables so that I can work with that. All I want to do is let this information show in a label. Eg. lblArtist,…
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How does MPlayer recognize an MJPEG stream?

Since MJPEG over http consists basically on the transmission of a series of JPEG images seperated by a defined seperator, how does MPlayer recognize that it is an MJPEG stream? Thank you
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Reading console output from mplayer to parse track's position/length

When you run mplayer, it will display the playing track's position and length (among some other information) through, what I'd assume is, stdout. Here's a sample output from mplayer: MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Cannot…
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mplayer.py works fine in interactive python shell, but not in script

File playing normaly in python shell. Same code in script not playing, but getting right duration. What is wrong? >>> import mplayer >>> p = mplayer.Player() >>> p.loadfile('announce_vlad.wav') Script: import mplayer p =…
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mplayer does not work when Python script run in background

I have a python script that plays some audio files with mplayer. This is how I call mplayer in the code: subprocess.call(["mplayer","-msglevel","all=-1",audiofile]) it works fine if I run the script in foreground... However if I run the script in…
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mplayer failing to play on-line .pls files when started from cron

I've built a system using a Rasberry Pi and a piFace. Push buttons are used to naviagate a menu system and select various options. These include playing (using mplayer) locally stored mp3 and m4a files and streaming audio from remote sites in mp3…
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How to change title of MPlayer window?

Can I change title of MPlayer window? I play a video with this command: mplayer pinguin.mpg
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init.d: starting mplayer via "start-stop-daemon"

with an Ubuntu machine I'd like to run MPlayer like a daemon. In foreground the following configuration is exactly what I need: mplayer -slave -idle -input file=/tmp/mplayercontrol. Now, I wrote the following script: # /etc/init.d/mplayerd ### BEGIN…
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How to read/open files with space in name

I'm trying to develop a server for mplayer using Java but I can't open files that have spaces in name (e.g. "File with space.mp3"). I'm following this tutorial here. The problem is, every time I try to open a file with spaces in name the…
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