Questions tagged [mplayer]
MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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Mplayer slower than other video players
I have as my main media/video player my own (built from source by myself, including all the necessary libraries) mplayer
However, one of the problems that I have with it, it's his low relative ...
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mplayer command line only show timestamp
I want to use mplayer command line to play music files in the terminal and keep the output messages quiet only except for audio timestamp. Only keep the last line A: 133.5 (02:13.4) of 347.1 (05:47.0) ...
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Using MPlayer with Legacy Hauppauge FM tuner card bt878 chipset
New to this forum but have been a Linux user for over 20 years. I support an older OpenSuse 12.2 box that has one of the WinTV Hauppauge FM tuner boards. MPlayer4.1 runs fine on the console for audio ...
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Use mplayer as an xscreensaver?
Wanting to run a video as my screensaver, I ran into problems configuring it appropriately. I am summarizing the solution here in Q&A format.
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Why can't play music at reboot?
OS info:
uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I want to play music at reboot.
sudo crontab -e
@reboot /usr/bin/sleep 200;/usr/bin/mplayer /...
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Process (mplayer) doesn't read from named pipe when started from webserver (lighttpd)
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$ sudo -u www-data mplayer -slave -input file=/srv/mplayer.fifo -playlist /srv/list &
$ lsof /srv/mplayer.fifo | tail +2
mplayer 21059 www-data 4u FIFO 179,2 0t0 2359331 /srv/...
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How can I execute a command in a shell script in a loop and in background mode?
In Restart mplayer stream process on loss of internet connection -> use while true an answer is given to restart an external command of a shell script - mplayer - after a connection loss. One ...
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MPlayer can't play opus files inside mp4 container
I'm using mplayer version 1.4-11.
When trying to play these (audio-only) kind of files, MPlayer gives the error message "Cannot find codec for audio format 0x7375704F."
Other media players ...
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Why is Electricsheep on Debian not using the mplayer configuration for display settings?
I have set electricsheep for screensaver in Debian.
I want to run it in full screen, at 25 fps, but it runs at 23 fps with a very strange resolution.
Checking on ps it return this
ps -efww|grep mpla
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Playing a sound using Crontab
I downloaded a music file named bell.mp3 and stored it in my /home/username/Downloads
I was able to play it using mplayer
sudo apt-get install mplayer
mplayer /home/username/Downloads/bell.mp3
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Can't exec mplayer as a background process
If I give a command like:
$ mplayer ~/sounds/mysound.wav
then it works and plays a sound. If I sleep before playing the sound, then it also works:
$ sleep 5s && mplayer ~/sounds/mysound.wav
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mplayer audio capture
I have an ancient audio CD that I'd like to play. So far nothing will touch it except mplayer, it seems the disk is defective but mplayer soldiers through. I can't copy the disk either nor rip the ...
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Mplayer only flushing every 256k
I am recording audio in a script in order to play it back later with a time shift.
The script regularly checks if the stream is still active. Sometimes live radio streams get interrupted. In that ...
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debian stretch missing do-rel.h after upgrade
debian 9 apt-get update;apt-get upgrade
now mplayer, mpv and chromium seg fault with similar errors; gdb /usr/bin/mpv says
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
elf_dynamic_do_Rela (...
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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:
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