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| - | == "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" == | + | ====== How to use MPlayer on the Command-line ====== |
| [[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-documentation-project-4175422561/|As suggested by kikinovak as a slackdoc topic]]. | [[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-documentation-project-4175422561/|As suggested by kikinovak as a slackdoc topic]]. | ||
| - | == What is mplayer? == | + | ===== What is mplayer? ===== |
| - | Basically, mplayer is a command-line music 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't strictly require a desktop environment to be running, it is quite light and is ideal for wimpier machines such as netbooks. | + | Because mplayer doesn't strictly require a desktop environment to be running while playing music, it is quite light and is ideal for wimpier machines such as netbooks. |
| - | == How to invoke mplayer == | + | ===== How to invoke 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 additional keyboard input. | + | While running, mplayer can be controlled by additional keyboard input. |
| Some simple but memorable shortcuts: | Some simple but memorable shortcuts: | ||
| - | spacebar - Toggles pause/play. | + | * spacebar - Toggles pause/play. |
| - | return - Next track. | + | * 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). | ||
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| + | ==== Playlists ==== | ||
| + | You can also tell mplayer to play tracks from a playlist. | ||
| + | |||
| + | First you need to create a playlist file. | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | $ find . -type f -iname *.mp3 > my_list.txt | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | And then you can take the playlist and feed it into mplayer. | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | $ mplayer -playlist my_list.txt | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | If you're feeling frisky, you can also tell mplayer to shuffle your playlist as well. | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | $ mplayer -shuffle -playlist my_list.txt | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | === Example Playlist Demonstration === | ||
| + | |||
| + | The below terminal output demonstrates mplayer playlists in action. | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | [ roach@sepsis:msk ]$ find SchoolyardHeroes/Abominations/ -type f -iname *.mp3 > abominations.txt | ||
| + | [ roach@sepsis:msk ]$ mplayer -playlist abominations.txt | ||
| + | MPlayer 20101218-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team | ||
| + | |||
| + | Playing SchoolyardHeroes/Abominations/04 - Violence Is All The Rage.mp3. | ||
| + | Audio only file format detected. | ||
| + | Clip info: | ||
| + | Title: Violence Is All The Rage | ||
| + | Artist: Schoolyard Heroes | ||
| + | Album: Abominations | ||
| + | Year: 2007 | ||
| + | Comment: Amazon.com Song ID: 20884756 | ||
| + | Track: 4 | ||
| + | Genre: Unknown | ||
| + | ========================================================================== | ||
| + | Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 | ||
| + | AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/18.14% (ratio: 32000->176400) | ||
| + | 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 (03:09.0) 0.3% | ||
| + | |||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | Note: The above example's find command creates an unsorted playlist (which might not be what you're after). | ||
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| + | [[http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/how-to-quickly-make-a-playlist-for-mplayer/|Here's a nifty article on creating sorted playlists and then some.]] | ||
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| + | ====== Sources ====== | ||
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| + | * Written by [[wiki:user:aschyiel | aschyiel]] | ||
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