A freeware, open-source, media player. Available for all major Operating Systems; Linux, UNIX-like systems, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System.
Questions tagged [mplayer]
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How to extract one frame of a video every N seconds to an image?
How can I convert a video file to a sequence of images, for example one frame every N seconds. Can mplayer or ffmpeg do this? I have used MPlayer to grab screenshots manually but I would like to automate this for a long video.
Liam
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How can I get the length of a video file from the console?
Suppose we have a video file some_video.
How can I get its length from a shell script (with mplayer/transcode/gstreamer/vlc/ffmpeg/whatever)?
VIDEO_LENGTH_IN_SECONDS=`ffmpeg .... -i some_video ... | grep -o .....`
Vi.
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How to disable subtitles?
When I play videos in mplayer it sometimes shows subtitles. How can I turn them off?
And can I change mplayer.conf so they are off by default?
Colonel Panic
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How to infinite loop every video I play as defaut on MPV player without having to press shift+L hotkey every single time?
I think the title is clear without filling the body.
Every time I play new video the inf loop is gone and I need to press shift+L again each time. How to just make this my default setting. As far as I know there is no configuration in this program.…
galih_ken
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get mplayer to start with a default volume other than 25%
I want to configure mplayer conf so that the player's default volume is not 25%. I have to increase the volume via the keyboard with every song/flick. I can only find solutions that simply over-pushing the soundcard...
nato
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Is it possible to completly remove Ubuntu's video player "totem"?
To watch videos, I use Mplayer, which works great. But Ubuntu insists on playing every video file it encounters with "Totem", which I guess is a video player.
I use linux primarily on my laptop, and often on travels, where I have no internet…
Manu
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Keep mplayer open after video playback
Is it possible to make mplayer freeze in the last frame of the video instead of closing?
I am using CLI version of mplayer in linux.
André Puel
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Run mplayer from bash in background without extra bash
I would like to watch a movie with mplayer from bash in the background, like I do with all programs and there has never been any problems:
mplayer Kick* &
if you'd like to see Kickboxer, for example. But, this doesn't bring up the window, instead it…
Emanuel Berg
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Why is VLC slower than MPV/MPlayer?
Every time I try to seek a local video with VLC, there is a noticable lag, as opposed to MPlayer/MPV, no matter what "ultrafast" x264 presets or loop filter skipping is used.
What's the fundamental reason for that?
user216280
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mplayer - Scale video to window size
When I open a video with mplayer2 it "scales" to my window size. E.g.
The original being 720p. When I open the same file with mplayer it displays the video in its default resolution it seems, only cropped:
I read the manual page and tried the…
Alex
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mplayer fontconfig annoyance on windows
The mplayer build I use on windows reloads the font cache every time I restart my computer. I found out the cause of this is that I clear the temp dir on restart and it keeps the font cache there.
I wondered: how to make mplayer do not always reload…
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How to save mplayer's output when watching in ASCII mode (with aalib)
I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo aa). But that only plays the movie, transcoding…
danakim
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How to make mplayer use subtitles?
I am trying to use subtitles with a mkv file in the following way:
mplayer video.mkv
mplayer -sub video.srt video.mkv
mplayer video.mkv -sub video.srt
but only the video did play, but without any subtitles. I also pressed several buttons while…
Alex
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Play audio-only file with subtitles, possibly use some still image as stub
Is it possible to make mplayer display subtitles while playing an audio-only file?
I've already tried:
mplayer filename.mp3 -sub filename.srt
but no luck - it just doesn't creates a viewport as soon as it sees that there is no video. -vo x11…
vdudouyt
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Get mplayer to display current time in hours and minutes
By default mplayer displays the current location in the video in seconds, which is less than useless. Example:
A:4086.2 V:4086.2 A-V: 0.000 ct: 0.039 0/ 0 17% 2% 2.1% 3 0
^--------^----- This is the current location in seconds.
Well, so…
