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MPlayer is a free and open source media player.

The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available.

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How hard would it to create a media player (gui fronteend for mplayer), need guiddance for getting started

I am pretty dissatisfied with all the available media players, and I was also looking for a major project to really get into programming. so I am thinking of writing my own media player . Or to be more accurate a gui-frontend for mplayer (something…
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Is it possible to make mplayer from the command line mimic iTunes search

I recently switched from Mac OSX to Ubuntu and copied all of my music over so it had the iTunes style directory structure and I wanted to be able to type something like: $ music abbey road at the command line and hear the album on shuffle or…
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default: command not found

Im new with linux so when when im facing this problem my first choice is to search it on google, but in these couple days still got no results. when im run this script on new instalation it will return "default: command not found". if im running…
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program crash on sending data over a pipe to mplayer

I have a program I wrote in C that starts mplayer with a pipe, I then control mplayer through that pipe. It seems that at times when I send a command over the pipe it crashes. The following are the relevant parts of my code and what I have done to…
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Mplayer: Thumbnails every second

I want to create thumbnails every second from a video, but for some reason mplayer skips frames. for example, on a video of 2mn 49s duration I got only 59 thumbnails instead of 169 What i've tried: mplayer -nosound -vo jpg:outdir=. -sstep 1…
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Movie snapshots have other dimensions than movie itself.

I want to track a moving object on a video using swistrack. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SwisTrack I will use a simple background subtraction algorithm for that. Therefore, I need a snapshot of the first frame of my movie. The movies are in .avi…
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Scheduling mplayer inside cron

I'm trying to get mplayer to loop a couple of videos for a couple of hours at a specific time: Here's a sample of what cron should look like: 0 21 * * THU pkill mplayer; mplayer -loop 0 "/home/user/1.mp4" "/home/user/2.mp4" # Playlist 1 0 22 * *…
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How to fix video flickering around a movie played with mplayer on frame buffer?

I'm running a qt embedded application and mplayer, both of them on framebuffer. When I start video playing through mplayer, I get a lot of flickers around the movie. See the following movie: http://youtu.be/kbKpfjLHzTY How to fix it?
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Run mplayer playlist from a python script

first of all, Thank you for all the help I've gotten from this place so far! Keep up the good work! This is my first programming project so forgive me if this is a stupid question but I've come to a complete stop and can't find the answer…
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Third-party library to AVPlayer for streaming video playback

I'm building a player for a video stream that is transported over HTTP. The source of the stream is a third-party provider and I have no control over them. It looks like their feed is almost compliant with decoders provided by AVFonudation and…
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Mplayer Fedora No video

I have installed MPlayer. I have vaio with ATI graphics card. When I try to play movie file such as .avi, MPlayer GUI opens, but there is no video (just white GUI) I can see all the control buttons, it also plays the audio, but no video. What is…
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Chain videos for web playback (flash/html5 equivalent for mplayer?)

I have a large repository of videos, and a MySQL database to describe/organize them (as well as metadata about the videos). What I currently have is a php front-end that can use a system() call to do something like this: mplayer vidfile.mp4 -ss 110…
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Incrementally increasing volume in Bash

I'm making an alarm clock and wanted to start at basically no volume and increase the sound per 2 seconds up one 'notch'/value until a certain predefined point where it won't increase anymore. As of right now I'm using mplayer (it's a radio station,…
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Application hang when using time.sleep() in loop

i'm working on a school project regarding making a customized media player. I've got some source code on the web which i have been using. I wanted to add in another new feature which is to make a playlist which the source code does not have. However…
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How to use MPlayerCtrl

I'm doing a school project regarding making a media player. I'm doing this with python and wxPython as my GUI and MPlayerCtrl as my library to control all my button. However I'm having problem using MPlayerCtrl. I can't seem to get the function…
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