This is completely normal, MPlayer has actually no GUI, so when you lunch it without any parameters it instantly quits. You can try to drag&drop video file on the mplayer.exe or invoke from the command line. If it works good enough for you Yo can add MPlayer in your 'Send To...' folder or associate it to your video files so that it opens them on double click.
Hi @FantasyAcquiesce. Everyone has a preference although the last time i tested with SMPlayer v0.6.7, SMPlayer startup time was 22 seconds vs 4 seconds for MPlayer standalone, huge performance improvement. IMHO once you memorize the relevant keyboard commands the GUI just slows things down and gets in the way. MPlayer standalone runs lean and adding the executable to the right-click 'Send To' context menu makes it easy to launch videos from Windows Explorer.
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You could try installing mplayer. To do so, download it, then put it in the directory where the mpv.exe file is, then rename the latter into anything else (maybe mpv.old.exe so you will be able to find it again). Then just launch Anki and see if it works.
Now that I got it to render on my canvas, I cannot render on top of it without flickering, because I cannot do double buffering. (I cannot control when mplayer renders frames on the window). That's why I add a second window that reads the first window to a bitmap, I can do whatever I want to that bitmap, and display it . This meant that I could no longer use my preferred video renderer on windows -vo direct3d because somehow that setting doesn't actually draw on the window, just in the same region. When reading the first window I'd get an empty bitmap and not the video. I ended up using -vo directx:noaccel in order to properly read it.
I decided to ignore this problem and try to find a way to hide the first window so that it wouldn't interfere. I tried minimizing it, Hide(), move it outside the screen, etc. But mplayer would not render the video in these cases. I then tried making the window 100% transparent and this worked. It also fixed my overlap-problem as I could now overlap the windows without problems. Somehow making the windows transparent forces the no-hardware-acceleration-directx renderer to behave differently. Making the window 1% transparent also fixes the overlap-problem.
When I configure the two monitor areas to overlap (even partly), the full screen mplayer window appears always on LVDS (or, maybe, the largest monitor), but xterm is placed on the monitor under cursor.
Or I might better end up with the special Maximize, which is much more universal. It could be also convenient to introduce this behavior to all windows being maximized (in my setup): I do not need the border on maximized windows (I move them with Alt + mouse and could have them unmaximized automatically as I start to move them). My desktop has been very minimalistic in this way for many years
Chrizto: Your approach seems to work (at least for windows media player)
There is no mplayer.exe on my system but I made a copy of my wmplayer.exe and renamed it to mplayer.exe. After that I added the C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\ folder to the Path variable ( Control Panel\System > Advanced system settings > environment variables) and rebooted.
mmmmna@3GHz-MCP61SM2MA:$ sudo apt install ./mplayer-skins_3.2_all.deb [sudo] password for mmmmna: Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DoneNote, selecting 'mplayer-skins' instead of './mplayer-skins_3.2_all.deb'mplayer-skins is already the newest version (3.2).mplayer-skins set to manually installed.The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-4.13.0-37 linux-headers-4.13.0-37-generic linux-headers-4.13.0-38 linux-headers-4.13.0-38-generic linux-headers-4.13.0-39 linux-headers-4.13.0-39-generic linux-image-4.13.0-37-generic linux-image-4.13.0-38-generic linux-image-4.13.0-39-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-37-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-38-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-39-genericUse 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.mmmmna@3GHz-MCP61SM2MA:$
Surprised, I assumed that it was already installed but I forgot the outcome of trying the new skin package, so just now, I tried launching mplayer from virtual console.
I am using the "-vo caca" option in order to be able to play a video in the terminal. However, mplayer is opening up a window in which the video runs. Is there any way to make it play in the console window (to have it filled)? I am using Linux Mint 16.
I'm trying to send a unicast udp video stream from a Raspberry pi to a Windows server. The server will do two things. It will forward the stream and it will optionally let a person logged into the server view the stream. I can accomplish both of those tasks fairly easily with Windows versions of netcat and mplayer. However, I'm having a major difficulty doing both at the same time.
My hope was to sniff packets coming into port 5000 and pipe those off to mplayer. And at the same time, run netcat to forward the packets to the final destination. I started testing just the mplayer functionality. Unfortunately the video is quite garbled. Since I'm pretty new to tshark, I was hoping I could get some pointers. Here's what I'm trying:
And I'm piping that to my mplayer command listed earlier. When testing this kind of thing with windump, I also got garbled video. But I wonder if that's because the windump (and maybe tshark) output is more than just the raw bytes? Or maybe something else is going on here? Should I go back to researching a port mirroring tool?
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