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Commands tagged mplayer

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mplayer -nolirc http://5253.live.streamtheworld.com/VIRGINRADIO_DUBAIAAC
2013-01-09 09:00:41
User: sandeepvreddy
Tags: mplayer
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Play radio stream with mplayer

Above command will play Virgin Radio Dubai

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mplayer <(tail -fc +0 <filename>)
2012-04-30 07:28:42
User: gtmanfred
Functions: tail
Tags: mplayer tail -f
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don't have video stop at EOF while it is downloading

It will just start playing and will not stop at the point that it has downloaded up to when the video starts

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find /path/to/dir -iname "*.ext" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -really-quiet -cache 64 -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | awk '/ID_LENGTH/{gsub(/ID_LENGTH=/,"")}{SUM += $1}END{ printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}'
2012-03-11 12:28:48
User: DarkSniper
Functions: awk find printf xargs
Tags: video audio mplayer awk find
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Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir (and below) in H:m:s

Improvement on Coderjoe's Solution. Gets rid of grep and cut (and implements them in awk) and specifies some different mplayer options that speed things up a bit.

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youtube-dl -o bun.flv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPLcQhXpCc; mplayer bun.flv -ss 03:16 -endpos 5 -vo jpeg:outdir=bun:quality=100:smooth=30:progressive -vf scale=320:240 -nosound; convert -delay 4 -loop 0 bun/*.jpg bun.gif
2012-01-05 17:53:22
User: joeyliechty
Tags: mplayer youtube convert gif
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Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

Creates a better looking gif than the original post via imagemagick processing high quality jpgs, rather than converting directly to gif from the video itself.

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mplayer -endpos 0.1 -vo null -ao null -identify *.avi 2>&1 |grep ID_LENGTH |cut -d = -f 2|awk '{SUM += $1} END { printf "%d:%d:%d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}'
2011-12-12 15:49:07
User: Coderjoe
Functions: awk cut grep printf
Tags: video audio mplayer perl find
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Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir in H:m:s

Better awk example, using only mplayer, grep, cut, and awk.

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mplayer -shuffle $HOME/music/* $HOME/Dropbox/Music/*/* $HOME/Dropbox/Music/*/*/* etc. >> /dev/null 2>&1
2011-11-10 20:48:45
User: TheShadowFog
Tags: mplayer
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Shuffles your songs. Using mplayer. But with no output.
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mplayer -shuffle $HOME/music/* $HOME/music/*/* $HOME/music/*/*/* etc.
2011-11-09 01:45:51
User: TheShadowFog
Tags: mplayer
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Shuffle songs with mplayer (sub-dirs too.)

So... I saw this: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5385/play-all-the-music-in-a-folder-on-shuffle

And I thought it would be cool to make it so that it will play songs in subdirectorys too.

from: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-March/067853.html

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say() { if [[ "${1}" =~ -[a-z]{2} ]]; then local lang=${1#-}; local text="${*#$1}"; else local lang=${LANG%_*}; local text="$*";fi; mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&tl=${lang}&q=${text}" &> /dev/null ; }
2011-11-03 00:33:11
User: marrowsuck
Tags: mplayer text to speech
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Google text-to-speech in local language or language of choice

Google text-to-speech in your local language or in language of choice via country code switch (ISO 639-1).

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say() { local IFS=+;mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$*"; }
2011-09-08 13:02:46
User: RanyAlbeg
Tags: mplayer google say text to speech
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage: say hello world how are you today

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say() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=$1"; }
2011-09-08 03:34:24
User: daa
Tags: mplayer google say text to speech
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Gets the english pronunciation of a phrase

Usage examples:

say hello

say "hello world"

say hello+world

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cat subtitles.txt | perl -pe 's/} /}/g; s/{(\d+)}/=1=/; $f1=(24/25*$1); s/{(\d+)}/=2=/; $f2=(24/25*$1); $f1=~s/\..*//; $f2=~s/\..*//; s/=1=/{$f1}/; s/=2=/{$f2}/; ' > subtitles_newfps.txt
2011-07-30 15:34:43
User: ciekawy
Functions: cat perl
Tags: mplayer perl subtitles microdvd fps
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change microdvd subtitles framerate

this command example converts to 25 fps subtitles that were originally created for 24 fps movie

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mplayer -af volnorm=2:0.75 dvd://
2011-07-24 07:26:51
User: h3xx
Tags: mplayer volume
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Normalize volume output in MPlayer

Works really well for playing DVDs, which have the volume turned way down for some reason. The `2' method is better IMHO because it will adjust to changing loud/soft parts.

If you want to add it to your ~/.mplayer/config:

# format: volnorm[=method:target]

# method:

# 1: use single sample (default)

# 2: multiple samples

# target:

# default is 0.25

af-add=volnorm=2:0.75

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mplayer -playlist <(find "$PWD" -type f)
2011-07-24 03:27:03
User: h3xx
Functions: find
Tags: mplayer fd
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Play all files in the directory using MPlayer

Skip forward and back using the < and > keys. Display the file title with I.

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mplayer -fs -cookies -cookies-file /tmp/cookie.txt $(youtube-dl -g --cookies /tmp/cookie.txt "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTOSvEX-YeY")
2011-07-19 23:53:01
User: davro
Tags: bash mplayer youtube streaming flash
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Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.
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dvgrab - | mplayer -
2011-04-16 23:06:49
User: nutria
Tags: mplayer dvgrab
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Grabs video from dv firewire camera and plays it on mplayer.
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(sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/80562 8908 10999 &>/dev/null &); sleep 10; wait $(vlc http://localhost:10999); killall sp-sc
2011-04-06 00:08:38
User: Bonster
Functions: killall sleep wait
Tags: mplayer sopcast sp-sc
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View a sopcast stream

requires sp-auth installed

This command will auto kill sp-sc after vlc is closed, so u wont have to do it manually

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mplayer -vo fbdev $1 -fs -subcp ${2:-cp1251} -vf scale=${3:-1280:720}
2011-03-04 00:55:55
User: vkolev
Tags: mplayer framebuffer
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Start mplayer in the framebuffer

It's made for a script use, where you have 3 parameters:

1. parameter is the filename

2. (optional) the encoding for subtitles

3. (optional) the scaling of the video, since fullscreen doesn't mean that the video will be scaled.

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mplayer -af pan=1:0.5:0.5 -channels 1 radiostream.pls
2011-02-22 12:40:51
User: blabbingbanana
Tags: mplayer radio
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Downmix from stereo to mono and play radio stream with mplayer

The solution to a year long (and extremely frustrating) problem I've had, caused by the fact that I only have one speaker; this command downmixes the stream to monophonic output, making sure I don't miss any of the music.

NOTE: When stream is in .m3u format, a -playlist option is required, as shown below:

mplayer -af pan=1:0.5:0.5 -channels 1 -playlist radiostream.m3u

This command works great with aliases for various channels in .bashrc. Sample below:

alias radio1='mplayer -af pan=1:0.5:0.5 -channels 1 radio1stream.pls'
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cat video.ogg | nc -l -p 4232 & wget http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/?nombre=name -O - & sleep 10; mplayer http://users.bshellz.net/~bazza/datos/name.ogg
2010-11-29 03:34:31
User: el_bazza
Functions: cat sleep wget
Tags: video audio ogg mplayer stream streaming vorbis Videos webcam vlc theora
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Send and streamming video to web

Is a simple script for video streaming a movie

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yt () mplayer -fs -quiet $(youtube-dl -g "$1")
2010-09-29 18:48:19
User: elfreak
Tags: mplayer youtube function
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Stream YouTube URL directly to MPlayer

A function for streaming youtube to mplayer.

The option "-g" for youtube-dl tells it to output the direct video URL, instead of downloading the video.

"-fs" tells MPlayer to go FullScreen, and "-quit" makes it less verbose.

Requires: youdube-dl ( http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/ )

(Tested in zsh)

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ID=52DnUo6wJto;mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?&video_id=$ID$(wget -qO - 'http://youtube.com/watch?v='$ID | perl -ne 'print $1."&asv=" if /^.*(&t=.*?)&.*$/; print "&fmt=".$1 if /^.*&fmt_map=(22).*$/')")
2010-09-17 17:06:55
User: lslah
Functions: echo
Tags: bash mplayer youtube streaming flash
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Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

Streams youtube video with v=ID directly into the mplayer.

If exists, it uses the HD-quality stream.

If you don't want to watch it in HD-quality, you can use the shorter form:

ID=52DnUo6wJto; mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?&video_id=$ID$(wget -qO - 'http://youtube.com/watch?v='$ID | perl -ne 'print $1."&asv=" if /^.*(&t=.*?)&.*$/')")
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alias mplayer='mplayer -stop-xscreensaver'
2010-07-28 14:15:16
User: HeadLess
Functions: alias
Tags: mplayer screensaver
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Stop your screen saver interrupting your mplayer sessions

just use build in option.

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url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5bYDhZBFLA; youtube-dl -b $url; mplayer $(ls ${url##*=}*| tail -n1) -ss 00:57 -endpos 10 -vo gif89a:fps=5:output=output.gif -vf scale=400:300 -nosound
2010-07-18 02:11:39
User: zed
Functions: ls tail
Tags: mplayer youtube gif
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Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

requires "youtube-dl" -- sure you can do this with wget and some more obscurity but why waste your time when this great tool is available?

the guts consist of mplayer converting a video to a gif -- study this command and read the man page for more information

mplayer video.flv -ss 00:23 -endpos 6 -vo gif89a:fps=5:output=output.gif -vf scale=400:300 -nosound

generates a 6 second gif starting at 23 seconds of play time at 5 fps and a scale of 400x300

start time (-ss)/end time (-endpos) formats: 00:00:00.000

end time should be relative to start time, not absolute. i.e. -endpos 5 == seconds after 0:42 = 0:47 end point

play with fps and scale for lower gif sizes

the subshell is a solution for the -b flag on youtube-dl which downloads the best quality video, sometimes, which can be various video formats $(ls ${url##*=}*| tail -n1)

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zenity --list --width 500 --height 500 --column 'radio' --column 'url' --print-column 2 $(curl -s http://www.di.fm/ | awk -F '"' '/href="http:.*\.pls.*96k/ {print $2}' | sort | awk -F '/|\.' '{print $(NF-1) " " $0}') | xargs mplayer
2010-04-28 23:45:35
User: polaco
Functions: awk sort xargs
Tags: mplayer music radio zenity menu
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Choose from a nice graphical menu which DI.FM radio station to play

This is a very simple and lightweight way to play DI.FM stations

For a more complete version of the command with proper strings in the menu, try: (couldnt fit in the command field above)

zenity --list --width 500 --height 500 --title 'DI.FM' --text 'Pick a Radio' --column 'radio' --column 'url' --print-column 2 $(curl -s http://www.di.fm/ | awk -F '"' '/href="http:.*\.pls.*96k/ {print $2}' | sort | awk -F '/|\.' '{print $(NF-1) " " $0}') | xargs mplayer

This command line parses the html returned from http://di.fm and display all radio stations in a nice graphical menu. After the radio is chosen, the url is passed to mplayer so the music can start

dependencies:

- x11 with gtk environment

- zenity: simple app for displaying gtk menus (sudo apt-get install zenity on ubuntu)

- mplayer: simple audio player (sudo apt-get install mplayer on ubuntu)

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mplayer -playlist <(find $PWD -type f)
2010-04-17 00:20:08
User: rkulla
Functions: find
Tags: bash mplayer find music zsh tcsh
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Play files with mplayer, including files in sub-directories, and have keyboard shortcuts work

Press > or < to go to the next or previous track. Space to toggle play/pause, etc.

It creates a temp file descriptor. To see where the file descriptor gets created type: echo <(echo foo)

This works better than running find first, then piping to mplayer with xargs or something, because that won't let you use keyboard shortcuts.

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