MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why does mplayer freeze when running from Scheduled Tasks?
I've been trying to use Scheduled Tasks and mplayer as an alarm clock, scheduling mplayer /path/to/file.mp3 for my morning wakeup time, but whenever it reaches the scheduled time, mplayer freezes only ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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Auto-close Gnome-Mplayer after playback
How do I configure Gnome-Mplayer to close automatically after playback has ended?
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
