#MPLAYER KUBUNTU HOW TO#
#MPLAYER KUBUNTU MOVIE#
#MPLAYER KUBUNTU ARCHIVE#
#MPLAYER KUBUNTU RAR#

I have thrown in a little resizing magic as well, not entirely necessary but it is perhaps a little too easy to get intoxicated with the commandline!

#MPLAYER KUBUNTU MOVIE#

I will admit to being blown away the first time I saw the rectangle filter at work, how cool is it! If you are happy with these parameters they can be used to encode the movie with MEncoder or simply for playback with MPlayer:

There is yet another filter that can be used to test these settings: The terminal output will show the cropping parameters and in the case of the Matrix DVD these figures are -vf crop=720:416:0:80. Mplayer -vf cropdetect=round:16 -ss 10:00 dvd:// The best way to use this filter is to start a little way into the movie as I illustrate here using the greatest movie of all time, the Matrix: But the good news for me, and perhaps for you also, is that MPlayer possesses an excellent video filter that does all of the work and all of the maths.

#MPLAYER KUBUNTU HOW TO#

I have read manuals describing in enormous detail how to calculate cropping parameters to enable the removal of black bands from DVD movies with usually only marginal comprehension and chaotic results on encoding. I have used 'input.wma' here as an example but you can place any audio or video file in its place and MPlayer will ignore the video and convert the sound to wav, ready for conversion to whatever format takes your fancy! Simple, but very, very effective.

Mplayer input.wma -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:waveheader:file=output.wav But a very valuable adjunct to this ability is MPlayer's capacity to then output audio files in wav format: One of the biggest drawcards of MPlayer is that it will play almost any media file available. Economical as well as being more than a little cool!

#MPLAYER KUBUNTU ARCHIVE#

Thus the archived media file is opened with MPlayer without the archive being formally opened and a new file being created. Unzip -p test.zip | mplayer -cache 2048. This technique can be duplicated with tarred files: Unrar p -inul myarchive.rar | mplayer -cache 2048.

#MPLAYER KUBUNTU RAR#

One popular usage is to play directly compressed media files directly from rar archives: MPlayer can play from stdin thus opening the way to using any program as input that can output media to stdout. There are many options available for this audio filter, all carefully documented in the man pages, but I will admit that for my own purposes I have usually only used the syntax demonstrated above. The special magic with this is that you can decrease and increase playback speed while this in progress by using the default '' keys and the sound pitch will alter to match the new speed. Mplayer -af scaletempo -speed 0.5 my_file.mp4 So to play your media file at half-speed and scale the sound to the same speed, without altering the pitch, you would run: The audio filter 'scaletempo' has many, many options but I am pretty sure that most will use it to playback their favourite media at different speed but with the same pitch. Documented here are what I have previously described as 'Top 10 Tricks and Tips for the svn MPlayer', they are a collection of the 10 best tips and tricks that I have found either useful or fascinating in my dealings with the svn MPlayer. I have been writing guides for the installation of the svn MPlayer under Ubuntu Linux for sometime now but for this wiki page I would like to move away from installation issues and deal with usage of this amazing program. Thanks to the author of this guide for his kind permission to use the material on this page! This page was created from the Ubuntu Forums guide: Top 10 Tricks and Tips for the svn MPlayer, where support is still available for this wiki page.

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