Questions tagged [mplayer]
MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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How to mix and play back multiple audio tracks from a video file?
I have a video file (in an mkv container) with multiple audio tracks (aid=1,2,...). Using either mplayer or mpv, how can I play two of the audio tracks simultaneously (ideally being able to set each ...
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ubuntu 16.04 mplayer fullscreen issue
MPlayer refuses to go fullscreen when I start it with -noborder option. Without this option it works fine.
I tried following command but it does not work.
mplayer -vo vpdau -zoom -fs -noborder video....
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error with playing mkv files both in vlc and mplayer
I have 2 mkv files downloaded from the same place and when i try to open these files using vlc or mplayer only the sound will play and there is NO video.
what do you think is the problem?
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Smplayer + MPV subtitle size
I started using
Smplayer 16.1.10 + MPV (git-9a2a0b0)
on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and i realized that i cannot set my subtitle font size by default.
I go to preferences and subtitle and i set it to ...
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Mplayer2 is mute, despite volume on the program and pulse being high
Once restart after installing and using correctly mplayer2, now I can't hear a thing, even when volume of the program and pulse is high. Other programs (i.e. clementine, cinnamon) I can hear correctly....
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Unable to paste file name in terminal using mouse
Hi Iam a newbie to linux .If some body help me trouble shoot the below problem that will be greatful .I now only changed my gnome desktop to xfce . While playing video in terminal using mplayer Iam ...
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vlc 4k choppy while mplayer is smooth
I'm trying to run a 4k h264 MPEG4-AVC part 10, 4k 3840x2160 video. It's totally choppy on VLC (2.1.6 Rincewind) which seems to use only one CPU. The video is perfectly smooth on mplayer which seems to ...
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Why is gnome-mplayer stuttering?
The stutter occurs at random when playing mp3 files.
It also occurs specifically when using space bar to pause/restart a running video. But it only occurs if that video has been fwd/rev using the ...
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How can I change the webcam that MPlayer uses?
I can use mplayer -vo png -frames 1 tv:// to take a picture with my laptop's built-in webcam and save it to the hard drive.
I want MPlayer to use my USB webcam instead of the laptop's built-in webcam....
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What command can I use to change the output location of MPlayer?
I'm using mplayer -vo png -frames 1 tv:// to make MPlayer take a single shot from my webcam.
Currently, it saves it to the desktop. What command can I use to make it save the file to /var/www/html ...
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Phone: 15.4 update to Build 107 => no media player
I've got the Meizu MX4 :) and 15.04 OS-Build 107 (armhf 20150908-020305). The media player is no longer available in the Ubuntu Store, before with 15.04 rc3 it worked....
Any ideas why?
Thanks
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How do I get DVD menus in mplayer
I love mplayer, but I can't figure out how to get the DVD menus working. I heard you need to type something like this:
mplayer dvdnav://
but I don't know what comes after that.
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What player can I use to repeat a specific part of an audio file?
What player can I use to repeat a specific part of an audio file? e.g. I need an audio file to repeat from second 10 to 22, in a loop. This can be done via mplayer, but mplayer is not visual and is ...
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"mplayer -vo caca fma.avi" lags, how can i skip frames so it doesn't lag
"mplayer -vo caca" looks funny and enjoyably fun to watch in breaks, especially as a screen saver!
Unfortunately it lags, and (since video/asci is synced to sound,) sound is fragmented ( "s", pause, "...
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How do I deal with mplayer2 forwarding latency?
I use smplayer as default player on ubuntu 15.04, which is provided by mplayer2 now. It takes mplayer2 more than 3 secs to forward a video, which is unacceptable. On ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 LTS, ...
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How can I use VLC, Mplayer or ffplay in Ubuntu Touch/Phone?
I've installed them on Ubuntu Touch/phone - but when I start them in an terminal, Vlc, Mplayer will only play the video in ascii-mode, and ffplay complains that it could not intialize SDL. I guess ...
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Capturing stream via video player?
Is there a way to run stream from http://www.ustream.tv/ using mplayer or wget or anything different than a web browser ?
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How to enable hardware acceleration of video decoding in mplayer with Intel HD3000 on Vivid?
There used to be a vaapi build of mplayer but it doesn't seem to be maintained any more and doesn't work in Vivid.
Default mplayer2 build from the repo uses 40% of CPU during 720p playback. Same as ...
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Bangla subtitle(connected letter) problem in VLC and gnome-mplayer
I am trying to run a srt file written in unicode Bangla. I have changed the encoding settings to UTF-8 and select a Bangla unicode font in VLC subtitle settings.
I can see normal letter but not ...
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Unable to install MPlayer on ubuntu Linux 3.2.0-76-generic
I am trying to install MPlayer on my Ubuntu system but every time I am getting following text on terminal:
"Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
0% [Connecting to 10.0.0.100 (10.0.0....
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Bind character keys to command in Mplayer
How can I bind character keys to command? Like binding RIGHT seek +5 and something like that but with character keys like a, b, c etc.
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MPlayer bug fix 1218510
Fails to open due to: PNG read error in /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main
People have been able to fix the problem with Paul Andreassen's workaround but I can't do one step.
Here is the work ...
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Where does mplayer store cache?
I tried to look for this searching around but was unable to find it. So I ask here instead of RTFS.
And how do you change the setting?
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SMPlayer plays mp4 video too fast on Ubuntu 14.04
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I try to download source and compile latest mplayer, Now when I play mp4 file with command line mplayer Train.mp4 have no problem, but still when play with smplayer have the same problem....
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How to increase video quality in SMPlayer like cyberlink powerdvd?
Cyberlink Powerdvd have a feature called "software decoding with truetheater enhancement".
For example: "to up scale the original video to a higher resolution version, which is sharper and artifact-...
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How to get mplayer's volnorm working in 14.04?
I recently upgraded a media-PC from 12.04 to 14.04. Now the audio-filter -af volnorm=2:0.25 of mplayer does not seem to work any more. The filter is accepted by the command-line, but just doesn't ...
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How to set mplayer as the default video application in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
I added a new entry under ~/.local/share/applications as suggested in another discussion, and it now shows up in the contextual menu:
However, while in the previous versions of Ubuntu, you could set ...
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mplayer configure Error: libavutil/x86/asm.h header is required for shared FFmpeg
In Ubuntu 14.04,I run ./configure --enable-gui --enable-xvid-lavc --enable-xv --enable-alsa to install mplayer,when it comes to Checking for FFmpeg .... then the error shows up. I cat config.log, the ...
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can't play ISO either on Ubuntu 14.04(laptop) or 12.04 (netbook)_mplayer, vlc do not play
I have two computers running Ubuntu (both dual boot with Windows 7):
laptop Toshiba,
Processor: Intel Celeron CPU900 @2.20Ghz
Graphics: Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset
64-bit
netbook Packard Bell:
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How to play rtsp streams in ubuntu?
More specifically, the question is how to play rtsp streams from addresses that have a question mark in them.
I.E: rtsp://some.server.name:554/video_file.wmv?authstring=sOm3StrIN2==¶m=3
I ...
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Mplayer not working after upgrading to 14.04
Last night I upgraded to 14.04 from 13.10. After reboot, I can't play mp4 videos on smplayer. (and also from mplayer using terminal) I get following error.
$ mplayer '/home/vishwaje/Desktop/A-ha - ...
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Region 1 DVD won't play - all region 2 dvds play fine
I can play region 2 dvds perfectly and I thought I could play region 1 dvds as well but I just bought one on ebay and it won't play in vlc, totem, smplayer, mplayer, xine or handbrake.
Apparently if ...
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isn't it possible to install mplayer and devede at the same time?
I use Smplayer which uses Mplayer, I want to install Devede to create DVDs that can be played on DVD players. When I install Devede, it removes Mplayer and install Mplayer2 which doesn't work with ...
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How do I change the shortcuts in mplayer?
I want to change the shortcuts in mplayer. More specifically, I want when I press the RIGHT button to go to the next song in the playlist instead. How can I do that?
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mplayer aalib missing ("-vo aa" not working)
I've just figured out that I'm unable to use aalib to render video output in mplayer. For those who do not know, aalib is the library for rendering videos in ASCII.
Before upgrading to 14.04 it ...
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Smplayer problem on Ubuntu 14.04
Ever since I upgraded to 14.04 I've had problems with my smplayer playback. I thought it might be an upgrade issue and so I fresh-installed the OS and installed smplayer first thing, still the same ...
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How to stop update for Mencoder & mplayer in my system (14.04)? [duplicate]
I have 14.04 installed but I have problem with mencoder & mplayer which always want to update to version from 2012
But I compiled mencoder & mplayer from sources so I get newest version.
How ...
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avconv set really slow frame rate
I have just a couple of images ( 20-40 ) and I want make movie which plays with frame rate 1-2 fps ( i.e. each image should be visible for 0.5-1 second ) ... so the whole movie should take ~20-40 ...
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Have tearing (no Vsync) in movies (Nvidia proprietary driver)
This is more of KDE than Ubuntu question, but...
I have visible tearing on screen. KDE composition, flash video in Firefox, and simple games like kpat are vsynced, but in steam games and in movies ...
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How to prevent gnome-mplayer from asking to resume at the latest position
gnome-mplayer asks whether to resume at the latest position if the playback has been canceled before the end of the video in a previous run of the program. How can I prevent this, i.e. start every ...
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smplayer doesn't show the formatting from the ass files
I have SMplayer on ubuntu 13.10 and it works perfectly, but when I tried to play a video with an ass file"Arabic language", it doesn't show the correct font formatting from the subtitle file, instead ...
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Any way to extract the current subtitle line from MPlayer
Is there any way to copy the current subtitle line to the clipboard or direct it into a different app? For example, while MPlayer is paused extract the line that is currently on the frame and send it ...
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mplayer video screen is disappearing
When I am trying to open any video file [ .mp4, .mkv, .flv so far ] with mplayer from right click context menu on Nautilus, the following things are happening:
audio is playing but video playing ...
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How to install mplayer1.1 in Ubuntu 13.10?
Is there any way I can install mplayer 1.1 in my Ubuntu 13.10 ? Ubuntu repositories are having mplayer 1.0 & They don't have Mplayer 1.1. How can I install it ?
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No sound while "listening" to the radio
Mplayer opens a link and it seems to be running smoothly. The only problem is that there is no sound to listen to. Apart from this there are no problems with sound in system.
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Not able to play a video clearly on ubuntu terminal
I have downloaded a video from youtube using the ubuntu command-line (Virtual PC)
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl youtube-dl http:<url>
I am trying to play a video after installing
sudo apt-...
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How to create Radio player based on Gnome MPlayer?
I want to make a radio player based on Gnome MPlayer, but just for one radio station, some like a native radio application.
I don't know if I have permission to modify MPlayer, but since is open ...
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mplayer SVN r34540 update
How can I update my mplayer to latest version? I am using mplayer integrated with smplayer.
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kubuntu - what's the best smplayer configuration for best quality in hd movies (mkv)
I have ubuntu x64 13.04 with kde 4.11 and smplayer v0.8.6 and the last mplayer version from ppa.
I have ATI video card HD6870 MSI with fglrx driver v13.4.
My kde settings are:
Composition mode: ...
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Replacement for mplayer?
I'm looking for a replacement for mplayer. mplayer is a audio player for the console. It works just fine when I use it like so:
mplayer /path/to/audio.mp3
But when I start it in the background I ...