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- | == "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" | + | ====== "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" |
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- | == What is mplayer? == | + | ===== What is mplayer? |
- | Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations | + | Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations; It happens to work like a champ with music files in addition to watching movies. |
Because mplayer doesn' | Because mplayer doesn' | ||
- | == How to invoke mplayer == | + | ===== How to invoke mplayer |
Below are a couple of basic ways of calling mplayer. | Below are a couple of basic ways of calling mplayer. | ||
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- | == Useful shortcut keys == | + | ==== Useful shortcut keys ==== |
While running, mplayer can be controlled by additional keyboard input. | While running, mplayer can be controlled by additional keyboard input. | ||
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* ctrl+c - Escape/ | * ctrl+c - Escape/ | ||
- | == 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 == | + | ==== Playlists |
You can also tell mplayer to play tracks from a playlist. | You can also tell mplayer to play tracks from a playlist. | ||
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- | === Playlist | + | === Example |
The below terminal output demonstrates mplayer playlists in action. | The below terminal output demonstrates mplayer playlists in action. | ||
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- | == "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" | ||
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- | == What is mplayer? == | ||
- | Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations that happens to work great with music files in addition to watching movies. | ||
- | Because mplayer doesn' | ||
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- | == How to invoke mplayer == | ||
- | Below are a couple of basic ways of calling mplayer. | ||
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- | $ mplayer ~/ | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | < | ||
- | $ mplayer ~/ | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | == Useful shortcut keys == | ||
- | While running, mplayer can be controlled by additional keyboard input. | ||
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- | Some simple but memorable shortcuts: | ||
- | * spacebar - Toggles pause/play. | ||
- | * return - Next track. | ||
- | * ctrl+c - Escape/ | ||
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- | == Gotchas == | ||
- | Don't accidentally hit the arrow keys while mplayer is running; It will alter the audio playback speed (quite annoying). | ||
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- | == Playlists == | ||
- | You can also tell mplayer to play tracks from a playlist. | ||
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- | First you need to create a playlist file. | ||
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- | $ find . -type f -iname *.mp3 > my_list.txt | ||
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- | And then you can take the playlist and feed it into mplayer. | ||
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- | $ mplayer -playlist my_list.txt | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | If you're feeling frisky, you can also tell mplayer to shuffle your playlist as well. | ||
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- | $ mplayer -shuffle -playlist my_list.txt | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | === Playlist Example Demonstration === | ||
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- | The below terminal output demonstrates mplayer playlists in action. | ||
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- | [ roach@sepsis: | ||
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- | MPlayer 20101218-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team | ||
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- | Playing SchoolyardHeroes/ | ||
- | Audio only file format detected. | ||
- | Clip info: | ||
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- | Year: 2007 | ||
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- | ========================================================================== | ||
- | 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: | ||
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- | Note: The above example' | ||
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