Mplayer open source media player

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Let me know in the comments below, and I'll check it out. And let me know what you thought of today's amusement. Be sure to check out yesterday's toy, Let you Linux terminal speak its mind , and come back tomorrow for another! Seems I had mplayer already installed. Tried the command-line sample and it worked flawlessly! I never would have discovered this on my own. Can you explain the options used? I looked at the basic help and then tried the man page for mplayer Honestly, MPlayer is one of those tools that's complex enough that, once I get the winning combination of options going, I don't touch them, even if one is perhaps superfluous.

Caching could actually be useful, depending on your situation, but one thing I use internet radio streams of local stations a good bit for is basketball coverage, which I want synced with my TV at least reasonably well so I can get audio that's in time with the game think of it as a Dick Vitale avoidance strategy. But do what works for you. Depending on what kind of stream you're consuming, different songs could actually be encoded in different ways, and ffmpeg seems to be able to handle everything that my preferred stations throw at it.

But again, your situation may vary: all I can say is, works for me! This is also a great time to pitch explainshell. It saves slogging through some of the more tortuous man pages. I used to do the same back in the analog days when I watched baseball championship games. Some of the longstanding network announcers just didn't quite "have it" so I would replace them with local radio guys who were more focused on the game.

Listen to the radio at the Linux terminal Listen to the radio at the Linux terminal. MPlayer is an extremely versatile open source media player that can be surprisingly useful at the Linux command line. Image credits :. Get the highlights in your inbox every week. The Linux Terminal.

While mpv strives for minimalism and provides no real GUI, it has a small controller on top of the video for basic control. Hardware decoding can be enabled at runtime on demand. A straightforward C API was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications.

Want a feature? Post a patch or request it! You have to start it from the terminal like this:. It will play the video in a GUI interface and you can see all the encoding and decoding in the terminal like this:. Starting a video player from terminal is not the most convenient way. This is why mplayer-gui package exists. What do you think of the Mplayer? Have you ever used it?

Do share your views. Also a movie buff with a soft corner for film noir. I tried in Ubuntu Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab.