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MPlayer is a free and open source media player.

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I have as my main media/video player my own (built from source by myself, including all the necessary libraries) mplayer However, one of the problems that I have with it, it's his low relative ...
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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) ...
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New to this forum but have been a Linux user for over 20 years. I support an older OpenSuse 12.2 box that has one of the WinTV Hauppauge FM tuner boards. MPlayer4.1 runs fine on the console for audio ...
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Wanting to run a video as my screensaver, I ran into problems configuring it appropriately. I am summarizing the solution here in Q&A format.
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OS info: uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux I want to play music at reboot. sudo crontab -e @reboot /usr/bin/sleep 200;/usr/bin/mplayer /...
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tl;dr $ sudo -u www-data mplayer -slave -input file=/srv/mplayer.fifo -playlist /srv/list & $ lsof /srv/mplayer.fifo | tail +2 mplayer 21059 www-data 4u FIFO 179,2 0t0 2359331 /srv/...
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In Restart mplayer stream process on loss of internet connection -> use while true an answer is given to restart an external command of a shell script - mplayer - after a connection loss. One ...
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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 ...
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I have set electricsheep for screensaver in Debian. I want to run it in full screen, at 25 fps, but it runs at 23 fps with a very strange resolution. Checking on ps it return this ps -efww|grep mpla ...
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I downloaded a music file named bell.mp3 and stored it in my /home/username/Downloads I was able to play it using mplayer sudo apt-get install mplayer mplayer /home/username/Downloads/bell.mp3 ...
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If I give a command like: $ mplayer ~/sounds/mysound.wav then it works and plays a sound. If I sleep before playing the sound, then it also works: $ sleep 5s && mplayer ~/sounds/mysound.wav ...
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I have an ancient audio CD that I'd like to play. So far nothing will touch it except mplayer, it seems the disk is defective but mplayer soldiers through. I can't copy the disk either nor rip the ...
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I am recording audio in a script in order to play it back later with a time shift. The script regularly checks if the stream is still active. Sometimes live radio streams get interrupted. In that ...
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debian 9 apt-get update;apt-get upgrade now mplayer, mpv and chromium seg fault with similar errors; gdb /usr/bin/mpv says Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. elf_dynamic_do_Rela (...
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I made a recording with ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i plughw:0,0 /tmp/audio.mp4 I then moved /tmp/audio.mp4 to another directory (/root/audio.mp4) without stopping ffmpeg leading to a broken .mp4 file: ...
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