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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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Creating a Motion JPEG frame by frame with variable frame-rate

I'm analyzing a number of solutions to the problem that I have in hand: I'm receiving images from a device and I need to make a video file out of it. However, the images arrive with a somewhat random delay between them and I'm looking for the best…
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libcaca - changing ascii glyphs to Katakana

I am creating a video effect that is supposed to look as in "Matrix" movie, but a bit different ("Matrix"-like video output will be mixed with an altered alpha channel with real video, so it will look half real, half with digits). I am using simply…
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Python: Parse stream title with mplayer

I'm writing a simple frontend in Python to play and record internet radio channels (e.g. from shoutcast) using mplayer (in a subprocess). When a user clicks a station the following code is run: url = http://77.111.88.131:8010 # only an example cmd…
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mplayer failing to play on-line .pls files when started from cron

I've built a system using a Rasberry Pi and a piFace. Push buttons are used to naviagate a menu system and select various options. These include playing (using mplayer) locally stored mp3 and m4a files and streaming audio from remote sites in mp3…
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Avoiding visual artifacts when embedding MPlayer in PyGTK

I'm trying to create a basic PyGTK app to embed MPlayer inside a window (since it otherwise doesn't work well with tiling WM's, which I like). I'll put my code so far at the end of this post, but basically my setup currently involves a Window…
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Python: Send command to mplayer under slave mode

I'm trying to send command via pipe to mplayer when running it under slave mode like this: import subprocess, time # start mplayer song = 'mysong.mp3' cmd = ['mplayer', '-slave', '-quiet', song] p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,…
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mplayer slave: set volume before starting the playback

I know this is about a specific program (mplayer back-end); however it will be used to program a front-end so I hope it is still considered on-topic on Stack Overflow. I want to run two mplayer slave instances which will be used to fade between…
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MPlayer: change sound pitch and speed independently

I have spent some time experimenting with MPlayer slave mode protocol: in a custom application I have two controls: one for changing pitch and one for changing speed. This is easy to implement using the scaletempo filter and *speed_set* /…
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How do I create an EDL (Edit Decision List) file using SMPlayer

I'm trying to find out how to create a .edl (Edit Decision List) file using SMPlayer. I know how to do it using mplayer (i.e. mplayer -edlout file.edl). But I can't figure it out for SMPlayer. All I could find is how to play a video using an .edl…
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How to batch generate EDL (edit decision list) files for a folder of videos with different run times

How can I skip an exact amount of seconds from the start, and another amount of seconds from the end, for a collection of videos whose durations differ? This is the format for the EDL I am using with kodi 0:00:00 0:01:20. 3 So if the video is…
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How do I get a MP3 file's details (like the author, title, album, year, etc.) with not too complicated coding?

I just want a simple piece of code that can give me the author, album, year, title and genre from a mp3 file. If one can, in the form of variables so that I can work with that. All I want to do is let this information show in a label. Eg. lblArtist,…
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How does MPlayer recognize an MJPEG stream?

Since MJPEG over http consists basically on the transmission of a series of JPEG images seperated by a defined seperator, how does MPlayer recognize that it is an MJPEG stream? Thank you
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slave mode mplayer pipe

I am loading mplayer in slave mode like this: mplayer -slave -idle -input file=/tmp/pipe the pipe file contains: loadfile /mymusic/1.mp3 Sofar it's running my 1.mp3 as expected. But i want to append seek and pause into the pipe but it doesn't…
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Reading console output from mplayer to parse track's position/length

When you run mplayer, it will display the playing track's position and length (among some other information) through, what I'd assume is, stdout. Here's a sample output from mplayer: MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Cannot…
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mplayer.py works fine in interactive python shell, but not in script

File playing normaly in python shell. Same code in script not playing, but getting right duration. What is wrong? >>> import mplayer >>> p = mplayer.Player() >>> p.loadfile('announce_vlad.wav') Script: import mplayer p =…
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