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MPlayer is a free and open source media player.

MPlayer is a popular free and open source sound and video player for unix-like systems as well as Windows. MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats and also save all streamed content to a file. The companion program mencoder translates between formats.

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How do I play an HTTP music stream over SSH?

I know I can just do mplayer to open and play a stream on the local machine. However, I'm behind a firewall. Instead, I'd like to open the stream on a remote machine, but still play it on this one. Remote connections are what SSH is for,…
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How to recover a broken mp4 file: moov atom not found

I made a recording with ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i plughw:0,0 /tmp/audio.mp4 I then moved /tmp/audio.mp4 to another directory (/root/audio.mp4) without stopping ffmpeg leading to a broken .mp4 file: ffplay…
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Video playlists with start and end times

Is there a good GUI-application (for example an mplayer GUI or something like banshee) for linux which allows to make and edit playlists (for video files) with different starting and stopping times for each video on the list? Added: At the moment I…
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Audio/video out of sync when playing MP4s in mplayer

When I try to play MP4 files in mplayer, after a few seconds I get the "Your system is too SLOW to play this!" warning and the video starts lagging behind the audio. It only happens with MP4s, and seems to happen with just about all of them. mplayer…
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How to get mplayer to play from stdin?

Why doesn't this work? cat /dev/video1 | mplayer - If I could get that to work, then I could play & record video at the same time using 'tee' to feed mplayer and mencoder. I want to play live video (from /dev/video1:input=1:norm=NTSC) and record it…
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Prevent mplayer from changing system volume

When I change the volume in mplayer it also changes for other applications. How can I configure mplayer to only change its own volume? Or is this a problem with the rest of the audio stack? I am using alsa with esd.
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How to send ffmpeg output to framebuffer?

How to send a ffmpeg stream to the framebuffer /dev/fb0? For instance, how to send the webcam output to the framebuffer? I am looking for an equivalent of this mplayer command but using ffmpeg exclusively: mplayer -ov fbdev2 -tv driver=v4l2…
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Mplayer in fullscreen in xmonad

Is it possible to run mplayer in fullscreen in xmonad? When I use the -fullscreen switch or f command it does nothing.
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MPlayer plays video in a new window instead of running in terminal

I am using the "-vo caca" option in order to be able to play a video in the terminal. However, mplayer is opening up a window in which the video runs. Is there any way to make it play in the console window (to have it filled)? I am using Linux Mint…
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Compiler flags for mplayer2 to optimize it for old hardware

I just compiled mplayer2 from source (git://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2-build.git) because the repository (ubuntu 12.04) version didn't work on my system. Since I have old hardware I was just wondering if there are some compiler flags I could use to…
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Text to movie from commandline

I need a script called myslide which does the following: myslide -f 15 -t 20 "Hello World" produces a movie file (to be played by mplayer), which just displays "Hello World" in the center of the screen in font size 15 for 20 seconds. Is there an…
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Choppy audio CD playback with mplayer

When playing audio CDs with mplayer, I always get a choppy playback. Playing audio from files, like MP3 (from any optical media, or other drives), etc. works fine. Watching video DVDs is also ok. Listening to uncompressed media that's on my hard…
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How to delete a video after it has been watched completely?

I watch most of my TV news on my computer. The videos are downloaded by my RSS reader and stored on disk until I decide to watch them. The files look like this: 130704_hjo_446k_p20v11.mp4 130706_hjo_446k_p20v11.mp4 130708_hjo_446k_p20v11.mp4 The…
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mpv or mplayer output to dual (multiple) displays

I have a minimum install of Ubuntu and I'm using mplayer or mpv to play mp4 files to fbdev2 or drm in mplayer or mpv respectively. I have two monitors connected to the PC - 1 in HDMI and 1 in DP1. When I play with mpv, the content only shows on one…
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Mplayer video output drivers

Is there a document somewhere describing each of mplayer's video output drivers and why'd you'd want to pick that one for a given circumstance (or why it exists) Would someone be willing to write that out here?
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