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http://crunchbanglinux.org – I have video files in .wmv Microsoft ASF format. mplayer (console version which shows a video window without any controls) will play these but VLC won't (only audio plays). Installed mplayer-gui, but it won't launch and complains about some LIBAV-something environment variable... ? (HowTos)

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Mplayer is a marvellous media player. Not just the fact that it can play almost all audio/video formats, it even provides you with a powerful command line. You can handle every feature of Mplayer through the terminal.

You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this. First, use Subversion to download the code for MPlayer: svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

graysky wrote:Does vlc auto detect vdpau or is there a setting in the GUI to use it?  Try it with mplayer making sure your ~/.mplayer/config contains:vo=vdpau vc=ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,with mplayer package, the video plays and lags;with mplayer-vaapi package, the video doesn't play.

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Mplayer, mkv problem 3 years 18 weeks ago

It is normal when I play media of rmvb, tp, avi format, but when played mkv format media, I got the error:

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Playing Kissing you - 少女时代.mkv. [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_AC3), -aid 0, -alang und [mkv] Will play video track 1.

MPlayer is a very common tool in the Linux world, it is usually used for watching videos or running audios. However, MPlayer has many more features and options.

Random tip 3 years 21 weeks ago

Since we're discussing cell phones anyway, I'll throw this one out there.

Viewing H264 Security Video 31 weeks 5 days ago

I bought a h264 security camera system last year and set it up to ftp video to my computer. I was able to get the video to play (even though it played a little fast) on Ubuntu 11.04 using mplayer.

A few months ago, I did a fresh install of 12.04 and I cannot seem to get the video to play with mplayer, smplayer or VLC.

Mplayer GUI not working 46 weeks 4 days ago

I've been using mplayer for a long time with several distros, and I like it.

Okay, so I've got a Blu-Ray disc. I've set up mplayer and the mount points and everything so when I type

mplayer -fs br:////mnt/blu/

it'll play the Blu-Ray back in Mplayer in fullscreen just fine, no stuttering or anything, selectable subtitles, etc. The only problem is it'll only play the first title on the Blu-Ray. This is a major problem.