A freeware, open-source, media player. Available for all major Operating Systems; Linux, UNIX-like systems, Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System.
Questions tagged [mplayer]
151 questions
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How to disable subtitles?
When I play videos in mplayer it sometimes shows subtitles. How can I turn them off?
And can I change mplayer.conf so they are off by default?
Colonel Panic
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get mplayer to start with a default volume other than 25%
I want to configure mplayer conf so that the player's default volume is not 25%. I have to increase the volume via the keyboard with every song/flick. I can only find solutions that simply over-pushing the soundcard...
nato
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mplayer - Scale video to window size
When I open a video with mplayer2 it "scales" to my window size. E.g.
The original being 720p. When I open the same file with mplayer it displays the video in its default resolution it seems, only cropped:
I read the manual page and tried the…
Alex
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How to change pitch of music in mplayer?
How to change the pitch of the sound file mplayer? I want to make my music sound lower, but not change the speed.
Mirzhan Irkegulov
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Disable embedded art/cover on music playback in mplayer
folks.
Recently I noticed, that console mplayer started to show embedded art/cover during music playback if there are some. Not it just produce a useless window, it will actually somehow heavily load my system only by showing a static 500x500 image,…
e-pirate
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Watching video with mplayer without extra terminal window?
I'm trying to watch a video in mplayer, however when I run the command:
mplayer video.flv
the terminal window remains open and another window for the video opens.
Is there a way I can run the video from the terminal but watch without the terminal…
user183714
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How to pause mplayer whenever I switch to another window?
I'm using mplayer-gui and would like to have it pause whenever I switch to another window and playback when I switch back.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
wik
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Can I derive the mp3-filepath from SMPlayer-portable?
I wonder: when playing e.g. an mp3 file in SMPlayer-portable version, can I derive one way or another the path of that file currently being played in SMPlayer?
I am building some macro's that need this information.
That is: the complete path to the…
Tup
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How to get around nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily unavailable in mplayer?
I am trying to capture a stream using mplayer using the -dumpstream option:
mplayer -dumpstream mms:// -dumpfile out.wmv
But I'm always getting this error after several tens of megabytes:
nop_streaming_read error : Resource temporarily…
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MPlayer grabs grey image from MTS video
I need to grab a frame from the MTS file at a specified interval of time by the MPlayer.
When I use the -ss parameter I get the grey image with random gray squares:
mplayer.exe -frames 1 -ss 3 -vo jpeg:quality=95 -vf scale=480:270 test.MTS
However…
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How to play CineForm RAW files with MPlayer?
The default MPlayer package doesn't allow me to play CineForm RAW files.
Can you suggest me a binary codec that can extend the MPlayer's functionality?
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mplayer mute stdout and supress get focus on loop
I use this
type mplayer
mplayer is aliased to `mplayer -fs -noconsolecontrols -loop 0'
to play files. I would like to mute the stdout stuff so I could keep bash to do other things by running mplayer with &.
This worked with GNOME 2 but since I…
Emanuel Berg
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i have 800x600 resolution on my video card. How to see video with mplayer and video with AVC 1024 x 552
Is there any way to see that ?
RusAlex
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mplayer play multiple videos each with -audiofile
I have 10 videos from 01.mkv to 10.mkv and 10 matching external audio tracks. I want to run mplayer to play all videos consecutively, each with matching audio, e.g.:
mplayer 01.mkv -audiofile 01.mka 02.mkv -audiofile 02.mka ...
Is there a way to do…
Uprooted
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