MPlayer has lots options for video rendering and filtering. Any suggestions on good MPlayer options that improve video rendering quality nicely? My ~/.mplayer/config is as follows with 2 profiles: [fast] vf=eq2 [default] vf=hqdn3d vo=gl:yuv=3:lscale=5:cscale=5 ao=pulse The default one gives good video quality by using the hqdn3d video filter while the CPU usage is high. If
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How to play video in full screen and keep it looping with MPlayer?
Posted onI would like to play a video file in full screen and automatically make it keep playing during an exhibition. On Linux, how to do it with MPlayer? You can use this command mplayer -fs -loop 0 video.mp4 Here, -fs make it fullscreen and -loop 0 makes it loop infinitely. For more usage of mplayer,
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How to download a rtmp stream on Linux?
Posted onHow to download a rtmp video stream on Linux? You can use mplayer to dump the rtmp stream like: mplayer -dumpstream rtmp://example.com/path/to/stream.mp4 It will generate ./stream.dump and you can rename it to the file with the extension you need like stream.mp4. The rtmp link usually can be found from the HTML or JavaScript source code
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How to convert flv to mp4 with ffmpeg?
Posted onHow to convert a video file in format as flv to mp4 with ffmpeg? You may use method from here: https://www.systutorials.com/3540/converting-video-files-for-ipod-iphone-ipad/ ffmpeg -i input.flv output.mp4 Or by specifying more details about how to handling the codecs: ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mp4 You may also add more options as you like. For more,
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How to embed mp4 video in HTML pages?
Posted onI have a mp4 video file. How to embed it video in HTML pages? I use this piece of code: In HTML: <video class=”movie” src=”path/to/file.mp4″ controls></video> The CSS for “movie” class: .movie { max-width:1000px; } Here is one example.
How to Play Movie from Remote Host using MPlayer over SSH
Posted onMPlayer is a great movie player. SSH is a great tool to connect and transfer data over the network securely. Combining these 2 great tools together will be greater. You may already has a small server storing some movies or videos or music and playing them on your laptop will be convenient. In this post,
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Converting Video Files for iPod/iPhone/iPad
Posted onWe usually have video files in .wmv .mpg .rmvb or .mkv formats. The iPod, iPhone or iPad only accept a limited number of video file types, such as .mov and .mp4. To play these video files in .wmv .mpg or .rmvb format, we should first convert them to .mov or .mp4 files that can played
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How to Capture Desktop Video on Linux using ffmpeg
Posted onffmpeg is a powerful tool and it can do the work of capturing Linux desktop video very well. ffmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. ffmpeg can grab X11 input and create a video file such as mp4 at specific fps with the specific
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