MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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Control mplayer with slave mode, key_down_event problem
I'm trying to control mplayer through the slave mode with a fifo, some commands as
echo "pt_step 1" >> fifo
echo "quit" >> fifo
echo "pause" >> fifo
echo "set_property volume 60" ...
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madVR Render in Ubuntu
I used to play videos in potplayer on windows using (madVR rendering
).
It's an amazing video renderer, is it possible to use it under ubuntu 13.04 ? if not, is there any similar video renderer for ...
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How to recieve streamed audio with Chromium in Lubuntu?
Running Lubuntu 13.04 fresh install.
Default chromium install fails on pls or m3u streaming audio, after attempting to install the plugin, due to following error:
could not load mplayerplug-in is ...
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Copying second sceeen to be displayed on first screen
I'm developing an application that utilizes 2 screens, using ubuntu 12.04. The monitor is back to back, one side to the operator, the other facing toward customer.
The problem is, on both monitor i ...
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Player to set short-keys for 1-second ahead/back jump?
I need to transcript to text some recordings and I need to jump back and forth, but sometimes 2-3 secs, sometimes 10, or more, or less. (On the long run these differences are not trivial in this type ...
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Properly play mkv file with external mka audio
I have some mkv files with ordered chapters + segment linking and my own external subs and audio.
When I load external subs mplayer2 async subs with video, with external audio it skip segment linking ...
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“Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so” error even though not using Mplayer
I keep getting the following error message on my terminal:
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I understand this has something ...
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mplayer window moving to the left when switching between workspaces?
I noticed on Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with gnome-classic that when I have an mplayer window open on a workspace with the right hand edge of the window at the right edge of the screen, if I then navigate to ...
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VLC, Mplayer, Movie Player lags when playing HD videos
I've tried these players
VLC
Mplayer
Ubuntu Default Movie Player
All lags for 1 seconds or 2 at certain times, even at the beginning of the video. Sometimes its just continuously stutters for 3 to ...
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MPlayer: your system is too slow to play this!
I just tried playing back a 1080p AVCHD video file recorded at 60 FPS with my Sony DSLR on my Ubuntu 12.04 workstation, and to my surprise MPlayer was not able to play the video smoothly. I copied the ...
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smplayer seek problems with any videos on kubuntu [closed]
I have ubuntu 12.04.02 with kde 4.10 with 3d effects. have a ATI msi R6870 video card fglrx proprietary drivers 13.1.
My problem is:
If I play any video with smplayer, while seeking, the picture ...
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kubuntu - vlc or smplayer video quality settings for HD movies (mkv etc…)
I have ubuntu 12.04.02 with kde 4.10 with 3d effects.
I have a recent very fast PC. I have a ATI msi R6870 video card fglrx proprietary drivers 13.1.
I have used video tearing option to reduce video ...
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On what (main) “engines” are based Ubuntu video players? [closed]
Thinking about using Xine, beside other players like VLC and the mplayer-based ones, I became interested in this and tried to understand this kind of terminology (player, frontend, gui, engine, etc), ...
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SMPlayer doesn't work with VDPAU?
I recently bought a Nvidia GT 440, and installed the proprietary nvidia-experimental-310 driver.
Every player seems to be working alright with VDPAU, except Mplayer frontends like SMPlayer.
Any ...
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MPlayer using a USB TV tuner doesn't show teletext
I just installed Ubuntu a week or so ago and have got most things working, including several versions of software to work with my USB TV tuner card (VLC, TVTime, Mplayer). Various hiccups, etc., but ...
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Total time wrong in gecko-mediaplayer
I am using gecko-mediaplayer to listen to mp3s in FireFox. However, the predicted time is completely wrong with certain files. This also makes it very hard to jump to a particular part of the song ...
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How to boost mplayer (SMPlayer) sound (in Lubuntu)?
I am thinking of the useful feature present in the MPUI video player (mplayer for windows) that can enable volume boost to impressive levels (not from the volume slider, but just from the mouse ...
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Why doesn't mplayer work with VDPAU?
I'm trying to play a HD video file, the command to play the video is:
mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau
And the error I get is:
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: ...
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Mplayer subtitle change color in config file
How change mplayer subtitle from white to yellow? Also how change subtitle font to Ubuntu-font-family ?
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How can I get smplayers on-screen-info to be as big as in mplayer?
I like mplayer's big on-screen information when changing a video's volume or play position. In smplayer, this information gets displayed a lot smaller, albeit with more detail.
How can I get ...
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Set mplayer as default application
I just did a fresh install of 12.10 and are now left wondering how to set mplayer as a global default application for video.
I created a mplayer.desktop and added the same categories as totem has, ...
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how to play flash videos in a browser using mplayer or vlc
Give the excessive use of CPU while playing flash videos, I am interested in using mplayer or vlc instead. I tried the greasemonkey script with this userscript in Firefox and Chrome, but it kept ...
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mplayer does not disable screensaver
so i have upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and i installed smplayer from the repositories. The thing is when i play a movie (even in full screen) the screen saver comes up. I have to disable screensaver ...
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Auto-close Gnome-Mplayer after playback
How do I configure Gnome-Mplayer to close automatically after playback has ended?
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Is there any video player that plays Youtube playlists?
Flash support for Linux is still lacking. Older hardware often performs only poorly when trying to watch youtube videos.
There are several external players (VLC, mplayer, minitube) that alleviate ...
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Bad HD video deinterlacing processing
I have Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with Unity. My system configuration is:
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz)
RAM: 8192 Mb DDR2 Kingston
Video: Palit GeForce GTX 260 216 SP, and my screen resolution is ...
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How to stream H264 Video from camera over FTP?
I bought a h264 security camera system last year and set it up to ftp video to my computer. I was able to get the video to play (even though it played a little fast) on Ubuntu 11.04 using mplayer.
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Listening radio with Mplayer in terminal
I found out that listening to radio in terminal using "mplayer url" is much better than any software around, but after a while, terminal prints out a message saying low on cache.
How can I increase ...
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dpms/screensaver off “fullscreen-video” trigger?
Is it possible to trigger dpms/xscreensaver off with fullscreen video such as mplayer or VLC ?
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Does Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 (r2) [USB ID 2040:6502] work with ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
I have this DVB+Analog usb tv tuner Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 (r2) [USB ID 2040:6502].
This used to work under ubuntu 10.04 LTS. But in 12.04 there seems to be a problem.
I have linux-firmware-nonfree ...
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Simultaneous commands
I'm trying to get bash to execute two commands simultaneously. I've read a little about job control, &, bg, fg, but the problem is that the command I want to run doesn't run properly in the bg.
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Tweaking smplayer for quality over performance
Hi I don't know a lot about video players or codecs and that sort of thing, and I am trying to squeeze the best possible quality picture out of Mplayer (I am using the SMplayer front end).
My ...
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How to smooth subtitle fonts in SMPlayer?
How to smooth subtitle fonts in SMPlayer in Ubuntu 12.04. I prefer a solution for SMplayer. When the movie is playing subtitle fonts are blurry and pixelized.
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SMPlayer and Gnome Player (mplayer in fact) cannot play (crash imediatly) in Lubuntu . What can I do?
I have just reinstalled my Lubuntu OS.
I have installed lubuntu and ubuntu-restricted extras but cannot play video in smplayer or gnome player.
log shows something like:
/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet ...
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Nvidia Geforce gtx 460 1gb keeps crashing [closed]
My Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 1gb keeps crashing my whole system while playing 3d games. I installed the latest drivers and nothing has been fixed. Is this a problem with all nvidia drivers and there is ...
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Multimedia Keys in [s]mplayer
It turned out that getting xf86audio-keys to work under [s]mplayer is tougher than I expected to. Is there some configuration I am missing? or is there no way to do that?
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Why does the videos played in ubuntu 12.04 show more colour?
When I play videos in VLC or movie player they show more colour which cannot be adjusted. Screen shot below. Please help me out.
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How to add space to Exec path in a Thumbnailer descrption?
I wish to use mplayer to generate thumbnails for nautilus, so I wrote a perl script as the thumbnailer named "gnome_thumbnailer_with_mplayer", and wrote a description in /usr/share/thumbnailers to ...
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Needed simple, configurable, extendable screensaver
I need simple screensaver which would allow me to:
play videos (using mplayer)
show slideshow from pictures in given directory
lock the screen (optional)
Screensaver should be easy to configure ...
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Mplayer music library like banshee or wmp
Hi I have been looking around for a plug in to make mplayer act as a music library but to no avail.
Dose any one know of one ?
My aim is to find one media player that can do music and films (must ...
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How do you get ordered chapters + segment linking in mkv files to work?
I can't get any mkv files with ordered chapters to play reliably using the most suggested SMplayer + mplayer2 setup. The timeline loads correctly, but when it attempts to switch to the external ...
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How to play a song on mplayer on repeat?
I usually play songs on mplayer through terminal.
However, I don't know to put a song on repeat - as I want to listen to a particular song again and again.
How to put a single song/set of songs on ...
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Blu-ray player?
I'd like to play bluray discs in my laptop. I found the official documentation, and there it's explained that one should use mplayer and ffmpeg.
Looking at the repositories, there exist two different ...
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Fix for poor HD playback using ATI or NVidia graphics
Hi all I was wondering if any one had a fix for the poor HD playback of ubuntu I see many questions on here and google but no one seems to know.
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How to use media buttons for mplayer?
How can I use my laptop's media buttons [Play/Pause, Next, Previous] to work with Mplayer? The XF86 buttons I think they're called.
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MPlayer not working after update
After an update with update-manager in 12.04, MPlayer is not working anymore. It needs ffmpeg, but it can't be installed due to unmet dependencies. I added a PPA for ffmpeg, but did not solve the ...
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Skype-4.0 and latest title from any audio player
is there any way to fill the skype status (in Skype-4.0) with any title information from the played title in any installed audio player (rhythmbox, clementine, banshee, whatever)?
I the macosx ...
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Movie Player won't play MP4, gxine does
I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04. I have installed ubuntu-restricted-extras and ubuntu-restricted-addons, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, libdvdread4, libdvdcss2, run the .sh script, and I don't remember ...
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VLC and all main Ubuntu sofwares are unauthenticated
Then how I'll install all these software including VLC and Mplayer in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.?
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open with mplayer not available for video files
I use mplayer to view my videos. However, in 12.04, after installing mplayer, I do not see open with option in preference dialog. Could you please tell me how to add mplayer to the list.
I am pasting ...
