Questions tagged [mplayer]

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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Mplayer in slave mode - multiple instances

I am developing a Qt application that is showing various media. Currently there is an issue with video files. As there were some problems in using Phonon with ATI graphic card acceleration, we are currently using mplayer with vaapi in slave mode.…
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mplayer mingw 64bit signal 11

with difficulty that I generated the executable. I get this error running MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and …
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Problems with freetype on OSX 10.7.4

I'm trying to install mplayer with OSD using homebrew. I've added both --enable-menu and --with-freetype-config=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.4.10/freetype-config to the brew recipe. ==> Downloading…
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Qt4 OpenGL: QMPwidget building errors

I am trying to build QMPwidget. It is a widget that allows Qt developers to embed an MPlayer instance into their application for convenient video playback. I have downloaded the source files from here. I have selected "Snapshot of the master branch"…
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Make MPlayer show all playback state change message in output

I'm currently using MPlayer in slave mode for a video player im making. As of currently, the media player shows ==== PAUSED ==== when it's paused and I can read the output for this status to know when the video is paused. The command line arg i am…
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Window on top of fullscreen - raspbian

i tried to force my window to stay on top. But it isn't work properly for me. Im working on raspbian and im trying to open MPlayer window above magicmirror fullscreen. I tried it with command wmctrl -r MPlayer -b add,above same as clicking on the…
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python-mplayer closes immediately

Consider the following example: import sys from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import * from mplayer import * class mplayerStarter(QMainWindow): def __init__(self, parent=None): super(mplayerStarter, self).__init__(parent) …
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Writing to named pipe like echo

I am trying to run mplayer in slave mode, and control it in GO. Named pipe is used to get position, seek, etc. For some reason with echo command it works, writing in go fails. package main import ( "os" "fmt" "time" "syscall" …
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How to write Remote-Control program for mplayer?

I need to create a NPAPI-Browser plugin to control mplayer, I found one way to control mplayer is its slave mode [link], Is there any other better way?
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ALSA + Qualcomm board

I have a board that has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 (MSM8909). It's running a stock kernel (https://github.com/android-linux-stable/msm-3.18) with a Debian Stretch sysroot. I got the sound working (by routing the DAI Frontends to the correct Backend)…
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Why does mplayer exit Bash while loop?

When I run the below script mplayer gives the below error and doesn't continue the while loop after pressing return. if I replace mplayer with mpv it works. I have to use mplayer, as mpv doesn't support the video formats I need to play. I suspect…
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I have written a simple daemon, pls suggest improvements (bash/python-Ubuntu)

I have a bash script that basically starts an audio stream using mplayer: #!/bin/bash # startmusic.sh /usr/bin/mplayer http://www.audiostream.com what I want to make sure is that if mplayer chrashes or ends of any reason, it gets automatically…
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How to access mplayer output/know when mplayer video stopped playing?

I'm running a bash script that will play a video with mplayer depending on an input from an Arduino (on/off). When the movie ends, I need to get a timestamp in a txt file. First question is whether there's a command in mplayer slave mode to tell me…
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MPlayer forward/rewind speed

Is it possible to configure how far MPlayer will skips when I press the arrow keys?
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How can I run this command in a shell script

This is my shell script but it gives errors: #!/bin/sh while getopts "i:o:" flag do case $flag in i) file_input=$OPTARG ;; o) file_output=$OPTARG ;; esac done mplayer -nosound -benchmark -vo yuv4mpeg:file=>(x264 --demuxer y4m \ …
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