Questions tagged [mplayer]
MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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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 (...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 - ...
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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 ...
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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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How can I create an MPlayer playlist with a shell script? [closed]
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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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.
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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", 'http://...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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mplayer slave: set volume before starting the playback
I know this is about a specific program (mplayer back-end); however it will be used to program a front-end so I hope it is still considered on-topic on Stack Overflow.
I want to run two mplayer slave ...
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Python: Send command to mplayer under slave mode
I'm trying to send command via pipe to mplayer when running it under slave mode like this:
import subprocess, time
# start mplayer
song = 'mysong.mp3'
cmd = ['mplayer', '-slave', '-quiet', song]
p = ...
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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 = ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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-...
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Get current playing file in MPlayer slave mode
Problem: I can't find any way to reliably get the current playing file in an MPlayer playlist.
Here is how far I have gotten. This working ash script monitors a text file with the path to the current ...
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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 ...
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slave mode mplayer pipe
I am loading mplayer in slave mode like this:
mplayer -slave -idle -input file=/tmp/pipe
the pipe file contains:
loadfile /mymusic/1.mp3
Sofar it's running my 1.mp3 as expected.
But i want to ...
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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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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 ...
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mplayer.py works fine in interactive python shell, but not in script [closed]
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(...
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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 ...
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Terminal giving "Unknown option on the command line: -gf" error with YouTube video streaming script using youtube-dl and mplayer
I have made a bash script where I can stream a YouTube video with youtube-dl and play it with mplayer. I based it on this terminal command:
$ mplayer -ontop -cookies -cookies-file ./cookie.txt $(...
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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 ...
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How to batch generate EDL (edit decision list) files for a folder of videos with different run times
How can I skip an exact amount of seconds from the start, and another amount of seconds from the end, for a collection of videos whose durations differ?
This is the format for the EDL I am using with ...
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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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I want to make a CLI program asynchronous using nodejs
Specifically I want to have nodejs process running in the background that can spawn child processes (in this case playing music files with mplayer) and then I want to control this from a separate ...
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mplayer/VLC video playlist with pauses
Before I start re-encoding a bunch of video files into a single one... Is there a way to create a playlist, in any format supported by either Mplayer or VLC (or both), which instructs the player to ...
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How can I get the stop position in mplayer when I quit?
If I have a script that plays a file using mplayer and I stop the playback half way through, is there a way to store the playback position where it stopped?
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How to check whether mplayer plays a file or not?
I am trying to check if mplayer is playing an mp3 file. I currently use this line from python
strace -p " + str(mplayer.pid) + " 2>&1 | head -n 200 | grep 'read(3'
That is because I know that ...
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Address of a Global Variable in the Heap Address Range
I was debugging the MPlayer-1.3.0 source code, and I saw a global variable whose address (returned by GDB or even simple printing) was in the range for the heap allocations, instead of the data ...
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How To playback to memory with mplayer
I need to embed a video player into my program (C++) but I cannot use XEmbed, because I must do some postprocessing.
Is it possible to write the output as a raw RGB to a buffer of memory like you can ...
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JAVA IPC on Windows
I want to open a named pipe using Java and extract the content of that archive (rar / zip /etc..) to a named pipe, then run Mplayer with the location of that pipe and play the movie.
I tried to open ...
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Stream radio using SOCKS in a terminal
I want to listen to the online radio "tunein.com" via terminal, but there is a limitation: the website is blocked on my network, so I have to use proxy to access it.
I've set up a SOCKS 5 proxy for ...
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How to make mplayer continue after pausing it via a named pipe?
Create a named pipe.
mkfifo /tmp/mplayer-control
Run it in slave mode
mplayer -slave -input file=/tmp/mplayer-control mymusic.mp3
Now in another terminal i can make mplayer pause or quit
echo "...
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mplayer output 4 audio channels to jack
I am struggling with getting mplayer to reproduce a 4 audio channel wav file.
I created a 4chn audio file.
Want mplayer to player, and output it to jack.
The problem is that i am only able to get in ...
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mpylayer, PyQt4 and lineEdit
Consider the minimal example below. It works perfectly until I uncomment the following lines:
# self.mainwi = QtGui.QWidget(self)
# self.lineEdit1 = QtGui.QLineEdit(self.mainwi)
# self....
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Is any command to stop and pause the mplayer using the PId
hello friends i am playing mplayer from my qt application using the play button....i have two more buttons called pause and stop....in play button i used system ("mplayer "+s.toAscii()+"&"); where ...
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How to loop the video on mplayer with Raspberry Pi?
I'm currently trying to play a video clip using a Raspberry Pi with 3.5-inch touch display.
I know that omxplayer has the function to make it loop, but from some reason omxplayer can't play my video ...
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Copy displayed picture on a TPanel into a TImage
I've embedded MPlayer video results into TPanel successfully, BUT can't copy TPanel results into a TImage.
ONLY the normal picture of TPanel is copied into TImage :
Embedding is performed using ...
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MPlayer libavformat/tls_securetransport.c fatal error: Security/Security.h: No such file or directory
I am trying to compile MPlayer with ./configure --enable-gui from mplayer-checkout-2015-05-07 on openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64).
I get the following error:
libavformat/tls_securetransport.c:35:...
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