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Questions tagged [mediaplayer]

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Using MPV to play DVD movies

Beside VLC, very few dvd players have access to all DVD movie options, namely menus, and mpv is not one of them, but I use mpv to access external subtitles with DVDs and have started to appreciate very much this very simple and light and yet very…
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Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file

I'm using RHEL 6 . I'm unable to play the video using Movie Player. It shows an error, Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file. The following plugins are required : MPEG-4-AAC decoder and H.264 decoder. But RHEL asking for a…
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Video Player That Shows Milliseconds

Is there a video player for Linux that shows the milliseconds of time elapsed? There's an extension for VLC, but according to comments at the link it doesn't work with newer versions.
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Is reading a youtube video only for sound possible in command line?

I would like to connect to YouTube and read a video only for audio with commands. Is that possible?
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How can I find the correct name for my microphone and sound output using aplay or pacmd or something else, to apply in asound.conf?

I need to write a default mic and default speaker output in the asound.conf config file. But I don't know exactly how I can find my external sound card or microphone device's name, so that on reboot or unplug/plug I don't have to reconfigure it…
user11085
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How can I read out a text file?

I want to convert text in file a.txt to sound & play it using APLAY. any suggestions please?
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Use dbus to get name of mediaplayer currently playing

EDIT: I removed and rewrote most of the post to make the question more direct and to make the post a lot shorter. You can of course view the edit history to get the previous version. Using bspwm on Arch Linux. playerctl to control media, sxhkd to…
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video player which can step forward and backward frame by frame smoothly

I am looking for a video player which can allow me to step forward and backward frame by frame by using keyboard shortcut. I have video with 24fps. Presently i am using mpv. I am trying the following shortcuts: . Step forward. Pressing once will…
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Fully access DVD movies menu structure: any alternative to VLC?

I want to be able to just insert a DVD movie and be sure I'll have full access to all its features. - Can this be done without VLC in Linux? VLC is maybe the best video player out-there and as far as I can tell the best DVD player for Linux, but it…
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How do you integrate a media player with the Xfce taskbar i.e. for play/stop controls?

In a Debian sid Xfce set-up I'm trying to get the volume control in the taskbar to show the media player controls like it does in some more preconfigured distros. How do I do that? Searches in synaptic and Google have so far turned up nothing.
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Multimedia keys and wine

I run AIMP audio player with wine and can not use special multimedia keys like play/pause, next/prev. IS there any way to make them work with wine? For example: Fn+F9, Fn+f10, Fn+F8...
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CLI command to start playing inserted DVD in VLC?

I want to add this command into a launcher on the panel or desktop so that I can start the inserted DVD with a single click. I would prefer this to selecting one of the many options my KDE panel notifier offers, or to opening VLC, going to Media -…
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Get music from subsonic to run in headless MPD

I share a subsonic server with several colleagues, together we have around 22k songs up there. Now I want to set up a MPD on something like a raspberry pi to listen to the music from subsonic. I want to use MPD because I can control it wireless via…
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Is it possible to make SMPlayer check for and load external subtitles from a subdirectory (e.g. ./Subs/*.srt etc)?

I generally use VLC and that works fine most of the time but at a recommendation to check out mpv and mpv-based players, I have been trying to see if SMPlayer would also work for my needs. However, I am having problems with getting it to detect…
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Changing which program responds to media keys

When I start a VLC instance, I can control it with media keys (Fn, BT headphones, etc.). But if I then start a second VLC instance simultaneously, I cannot control that one with media keys. That's probably intended, it would usually be pretty…
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