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MPlayer is a free and open source media player.

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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 stream my screen using rtsp (like ip camera)?

Hy all, At work, we migrated all computers at ubuntu 18.04. Before migration, we used windows 10 and Desk Camera app to recording screens and we used that to put in NVR like a IP Camera for ...
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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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How to reliably watch local 4k video at > 2x speed?

I'm using VLC ("VideoLAN") on Linux to play 4k video I have recorded. I'm trying to quickly review long segments so I want to play the video faster, at least 5x. But when I exceed 2.9x the video ...
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Can't remove mplayer without removing a bunch of unrelated programs?

When I try to remove mplayer from Lubuntu 16.04, the system tries to remove unrelated programs like Bleachbit, Deluge, Virtualbox... With sudo apt-get autoremove mplayer: Reading package lists... ...
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Mplayer2 -udp-master

I am in confuse to use mplayer or mplayer2 package from Ubuntu. Both has the one I need, but lack another features, which also needed. mplayer is great, I was using it until i got an error with *.dat ...
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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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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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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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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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KMPlayer does not open any video

I installed KMPlayer using sudo apt-get install kmplayer on Ubuntu 22.04 but I can't open any video. Why?
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How to play a podcast from the console with the "gpo" interface to Gpodder?

Using the gpo text interface: nicholas@gondor:~$ nicholas@gondor:~$ gpo gPodder 3.10.17 (2020-11-23) - http://gpodder.org/ (c) 2005-2020 The gPodder Team License: GNU General Public License, version ...
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Get video played details using mplayer

I am working on a project which gets a video URL from the server and then plays it. Once the video is completed it asks for another link from the server and plays it after receiving the URL. I am ...
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How to fix damaged avi video

I have a video camera that records video. When I collected the files off the camera the video files that were recorded first play normally. The files that were recorded later give errors. With VLC I ...
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Mplayer video streaming from URL not working

I am trying to stream a video from some URL. mplayer -fs https://www.someurl.com/video.mp4 But it throws an error: MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Cannot open file '/home/...
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Recording desktop and webcam using MPlayer and save the result into file

I used MPlayer to record the desktop and webcam on the same time. mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=400:height=300 -vo xv -geometry 100%:100% -noborder (credit) How to save the result into a file?...
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Run and control 2 mplayer instances simultaneously from fifo

I want to play 2 mp3 files simultaneously and be able to control the volume of each file separately through the fifo file. Is it possible? How can I do it?
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Html canvas and X Window Id

I am creating html5 application, and running it using ubuntu-html5-app-container. The page contains a canvas element. Is there any possibility to get X window id for the canvas element? As the one ...
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EasyCAP with VLC Ubuntu 16.04

I got an EasyCAP DC60+ video capture and want to use it to capture gameplays from a nintendo Wii. I have managed to install the drivers for the capturer (i think) and i can capture video on Mplayer ...
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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? ubuntu 14.04 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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mplayer treating ogg files as if empty

When I try to play a .ogg file with mplayer, nothing happens. mplayer leaves the following output in my terminal: jcast@jcast-Galago-Pro:~$ mplayer '/home/jcast/Music/Wade Bowen/The Given/Saturday ...
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Can't watch any mp4 file or any streaming video (like youtube) after upgrading ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 : failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so

Hello, I've just upgraded Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10. Everything seems to work great except Firefox,mplayer and I suppose any other mp4 player which belongs to some library or component that hasn't been ...
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Does gmplayer work?

I'm trying to get "gmplayer" to work. I did, eventually, get it to work, but it was a struggle, and I have a question (at the end of this post). Note: I first installed mplayer and it ...
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correct syntax for combining filters in mplayer-command

I´m looking for the right way to combine filters in mplayer. I want to achieve the following: I´d like to play a .wav-file with the equalizer-option set and the faster-speed-option (plus: not altering ...
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mplayer: looking for the correct syntax of a certain command

I found out that mplayer supports an equalizer option natively. The command mplayer -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:10:10 sound-file.wav generally works fine. It produces much crisper audio. But: Some ...
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How to disable Web cam microphone and use USB microphone as audio input

I have a webcam with builtin microphone, and I have a USB microphone. I would like to record a video with webcam, but I want to record audio from USB mic, not from webcam mic. When I use mplayer, I ...
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mplayer running video slow

I have tried several video players and they all seem to not play back the video at the correct frame rate. It is very slow and almost at a stand still. The following feedback could be gained from ...
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How to set non-GUI mplayer as the default video application in Ubuntu 18.04?

This question has been asked already here, but not answered. That is why I am asking this question again... I want mp4 video files associated with the Non-GUI version of mplayer! The video files are ...
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Play video using mplayer after buffering is completed

I am using mplayer in my application to play online video. But if the internet connection is slow it stops in the middle. I was wondering can we play an online video using mplayer once it has buffered ...
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mplayer how do i hide the mplayer window while it is opened?

here is my code , which i currently use and this works fine , i now need to know is it possible i can hide the player window. mplayer -ss 4 -endpos 2 -nosound " & video-link & " -ss 4 -endpos ...
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dmesg | grep saa7164 displays nothing, why?

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I installed a Hauppauge Win TV-HVR-2200 MC card and did the following (from Help with hauppauge wintv-hvr-2250 on ubuntu 13.04): I copied these files NXP7164-2010-03-10.1....
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Mplayer no video or audio on Intel HD 530 in Xubuntu 16.04

I have an Intel i3-6100 processor running Xubuntu 16.04. I'd like to get Mplayer working. I have tried some workarounds. VLC, for instance, works, particularly if I enable X11 display. But I need ...
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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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"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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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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SMPlayer plays mp4 video too fast on Ubuntu 14.04

Another way: 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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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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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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Conflict between ffmpeg and mplayer

I have been dealing with this issue for a long time now. I compiled a patched version of ffmpeg offered by this company. The problem arises whenever I install mplayer via apt-get. Before 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 open a video file in Windows using the Ubuntu terminal?

So I am learning the Linux/Ubuntu command line. One of the things I want to be able to do is to use the Ubuntu terminal (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to open video files (mp4) on my computer (Windows ...
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