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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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Extracting thumbnails with mplayer result in grey images

I'm trying to extract thumbnails using mplayer with this command: mplayer -nosound -ss 1 -vf screenshot -frames 1 -vo png:z=9 jump.mpg The problem is that it results in an almost grey image. If I now try and execute the command: mplayer -ss 1…
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Maintaining keyboard control when calling external command in elinks

Currently, using a method described here, I am able to stream YouTube videos without using X windows/Flash. My primary text-based browser is elinks, and you can call external programs and pass to it your currently selected link by adding this to…
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MPlayer — changing brightness/ contrast to video file and save output

I need to change brightness and contrast to a video permanently, I tried this: mplayer -vf eq=50:50 a.mp4 -dumpstream mv stream.dump b.mp4 But it saves as a file which look likes the original file. Any idea?
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Slave mplayer with PHP

I'm trying to make a cross-platform player written in PHP for a particular video format using mplayer. The PHP script builds the video file and launches mplayer, while it continues to build the video file. Sometimes the PHP script it's not fast…
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Perl system call mplayer, transition between videos varies

I'm only few weeks into perl, and I am trying to run the codes below: sub runVideo { system('mplayer -fs video1.mpeg2 video2.mpeg2'); return; } runVideo(); system('some other processes in background&'); runVideo(); Basically I run video1…
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How to convert an mkv (with subtitles) to something Nexus One friendly?

I have this ffmpeg one-liner that's been good for generating video files for my Nexus One: ffmpeg -i infile.mkv -acodec aac -s 572x238 -vcodec libx264 -vpre ipod640 -ab 128k -b 512k -f mp4 -strict experimental outfile.mp4 But it does this ignorant…
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mplayer text overlays on a video playback

I'm trying to find out how to overlay a video with text while it's playing (not encoded into the video). I need to overlay multiple text (prices) over a video showing products. The prices change often which is the reason for wanting to do price…
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How do I turn an MPlayer .edl file into the CMX 3600 format?

I use the script cleanvid to get the precise timestamps of swear words in a video and mute them. Unluckily, as confirmed by the ffmpeg developers, the script's solution generates audio artifacts in the output. An option to get around this is to…
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How do I configure mplayer to use a default edl file name?

I want to configure mplayer to look for an edl when playing a video. Specifically, I want it to use "show.edl" when playing "show.mp4", assuming both are in the same directory. Very similar to how it looks for subtitles. I can add a default edl in…
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Ffmpeg rebroadcast icecast stream and disconnect on silence

Currently, I'm using a combination of the Windows version of butt and VLC Media Player in order to rebroadcast an icecast stream from a remote icecast server to my local icecast server, whilst disconnecting whenever a certain duration of silence is…
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Video playing slow on Rock 3a / Banana Pi 4 and Odroid

I want to play 1080p fullscreen video on another device as Raspberry Pi. Currently i am testing Rock 3A The video plays very laggy. Can someone please help me on this one? Which codec should i use? (currently libx264) Which player should i use?…
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How do I get the correct play length for this file?

I have a file that I created myself using "abcde". It is 11500Khz monaural mp3. No matter what I've tried, I can't find anything that gives me the correct play length. Except mplayer, but even then only while playing. Unfortunately, I have since…
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How do I use overlay_add command in mplayer?

I managed to create a .pgm image file with GIMP, and noticed the potentially problematic #-comment it embeds into the file, but I still cannot get this command to display any noticeable result. I launch the mplayer with -slave mode, and input the…
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How to fix "undefined symbols" for compiling mplayer

When I try to compile mplayer on MacOS (12.4) I get an error Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_x264_encoder_open_163", referenced from: _X264_init in libavcodec.a(libx264.o) Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: …
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Running Mplayer in Docker on Raspberry Pi 4

I have a small dotnet client that runs videos using mplayer on Raspbian. When logged in via SSH, I can run mplayer manually providing i set the DISPLAY variable to :0 and run mplayer as follows: mplayer -vo gl video.mp4 This will display the video…
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