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- | == What is mplayer? == | ||
- | Basically, mplayer is a command-line music player packaged into most slackware installations. | ||
- | Because mplayer doesn' | ||
- | == "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" | ||
- | As suggested by kikinovak as a slackdoc topic. | ||
- | mplayer ~/music/*.mp3 # Tell mplayer to play all of your mp3 files under your music directory. | + | ====== "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" |
+ | [[http://www.linuxquestions.org/ | ||
- | == Useful shortcut keys == | + | ===== What is mplayer? ===== |
- | While running, mplayer can be controlled additional keyboard input. | + | Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations; |
+ | Because mplayer doesn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== How to invoke mplayer ===== | ||
+ | Below are a couple of basic ways of calling mplayer. | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | $ mplayer ~/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | $ mplayer ~/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Useful shortcut keys ==== | ||
+ | While running, mplayer can be controlled | ||
Some simple but memorable shortcuts: | Some simple but memorable shortcuts: | ||
- | spacebar - Toggles pause/ | + | * spacebar - Toggles pause/ |
- | return - Next track. | + | |
+ | * ctrl+c - Escape/Quit. | ||
- | == Gotchas == | + | === Gotchas |
Don't accidentally hit the arrow keys while mplayer is running; It will alter the audio playback speed (quite annoying). | Don't accidentally hit the arrow keys while mplayer is running; It will alter the audio playback speed (quite annoying). | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Playlists ==== | ||
+ | You can also tell mplayer to play tracks from a playlist. | ||
+ | |||
+ | First you need to create a playlist file. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | $ find . -type f -iname *.mp3 > my_list.txt | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | And then you can take the playlist and feed it into mplayer. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | $ mplayer -playlist my_list.txt | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you're feeling frisky, you can also tell mplayer to shuffle your playlist as well. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | $ mplayer -shuffle -playlist my_list.txt | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Example Playlist Demonstration === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The below terminal output demonstrates mplayer playlists in action. | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | [ roach@sepsis: | ||
+ | [ roach@sepsis: | ||
+ | MPlayer 20101218-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team | ||
+ | |||
+ | Playing SchoolyardHeroes/ | ||
+ | Audio only file format detected. | ||
+ | Clip info: | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Year: 2007 | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | | ||
+ | ========================================================================== | ||
+ | Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 | ||
+ | AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/18.14% (ratio: 32000-> | ||
+ | Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) | ||
+ | ========================================================================== | ||
+ | AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) | ||
+ | Video: no video | ||
+ | Starting playback... | ||
+ | A: 20.8 (20.8) of 189.0 (03: | ||
+ | |||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Note: The above example' | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[http:// | ||