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MPlayer is a free and open source media player.

MPlayer is a popular free and open source sound and video player for unix-like systems as well as Windows. MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats and also save all streamed content to a file. The companion program mencoder translates between formats.

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MPlayer plays video in a new window instead of running in terminal

I am using the "-vo caca" option in order to be able to play a video in the terminal. However, mplayer is opening up a window in which the video runs. Is there any way to make it play in the console window (to have it filled)? I am using Linux Mint…
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mpv or mplayer output to dual (multiple) displays

I have a minimum install of Ubuntu and I'm using mplayer or mpv to play mp4 files to fbdev2 or drm in mplayer or mpv respectively. I have two monitors connected to the PC - 1 in HDMI and 1 in DP1. When I play with mpv, the content only shows on one…
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How to create a PCM wav with mplayer?

I want to reencode a audiobook for my mobile with speexenc. The first step is to reencode the file with mplayer. for i in *.mp3; do mplayer -ao pcm:waveheader "$i" -af pan=1:0.5:0.5,resample=22050 -ao pcm:file="$i.wav"; done Is what I found on…
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Do mplayer's audio filters contain the opposite of "Karaoke" Mode?

A friend showed me mplayer's Karaoke mode (-af karaoke), and I was blown away by how good it is on the majority of the tracks I threw at it. Instead of tweaking the 10-band EQ, is there an audio filter for the opposite of Karaoke Mode? Specifically,…
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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 like vlc have no problem playing them. The supported codec…
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How to listen from radio device?

I have a radio card with /dev/radio correctly created. I've connected my radio card to soundcard, on line-in port, I run mplayer and I listen...silence. mplayer -radio adevice=hw=0.0:arate=96000 -rawaudio rate=96000 radio://103.8 Modules are…
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Saving output of mplayer

How can I save the output of mplayer? For example, if to play slowly an mp3 file, I use mplayer -speed 0.6 file.mp3. However, mplayer -speed 0.6 file.mp3 > file2.mp3 won't save the output to a file (which should be just the same, but slower). Any…
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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) 0. in the below example (of course…
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Mplayer/ SMPlayer general playing speed in Ubuntu

How can I make it play all files slower/faster? I know that I can set the speed video by video with [ ] and { }. But I want to play faster a series of short videos, and I need something less tedious. Is there any setting for 'play all videos…
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Keep screen ratio while maximizing mplayer

I have a movie with a 1024x576 resolution while my screen resolution is 1280x800. How can I keep the ratio of 1024/576 while MPlayer is stretched to the whole screen?
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Append to playlist from command line

Suppose I have an instance of smplayer running playing a playlist. Is there a way to add videos from command line to that playlist? Any other media player where I can do this?
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How do I make audio volume persistent when using mplayer in slave mode?

My goal is to have mplayer start at one volume, then change to a different volume in a scripted fashion. My current script (pseudo code - simplicity) mkfifo mplayer_fifo (sleep 5m; echo "set_property volume 80" > "mplayer_fifo")& mplayer -volume 100…
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