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mplayer -ao pcm:file=C:\x.wav

Not sure where this should be posted... Anyway, if i run the following command in a windows XP console it gives me a weird error and i have no ideea why. mplayer "1.mp3" -vc "null" -vo "null" -ao "pcm:file=C:\1.wav" Could not parse arguments at the position indicated below: file=C:\1.wav ^ Failed to initialize audio driver 'pcm...

Can't make Mplayer in OpenSolaris 2009.06

I downloaded the latest SVN source of Mplayer from the official website and have successfully run: ./configure --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3.2 But when I run make I get a single line error message saying: gmake: *** osdep/: Is a directory. Stop. What does this mean and what should I do? Thanks! P.S. This is being attempted on i386 Open...

Mplayer Fedora No video

I have installed MPlayer. I have vaio with ATI graphics card. When I try to play movie file such as .avi, MPlayer GUI opens, but there is no video (just white GUI) I can see all the control buttons, it also plays the audio, but no video. What is the error? ...

Controlling Festival Output

I am working on improving Festival on Emacs. I need better control of Festival when it reads a sentence. Basically, I need two things: Show what word is being read. Change the speed (and maybe pitch) of what is being read. Ideally, there would be some data structure output by Festival that would link offset/length (usually the star...

How hard would it to create a media player (gui fronteend for mplayer), need guiddance for getting started.

I am pretty dissatisfied with all the available media players, and I was also looking for a major project to really get into programming. so I am thinking of writing my own media player . Or to be more accurate a gui-frontend for mplayer (something similar to smplayer). How hard would this be.? I have plenty of time (months), and am will...

How can i create a stable checksum of a media file?

how can i create a checksum of only the media data without the metadata to get a stable identification for a media file. preferably an cross platform approach with a library that has support for many formats. e.g. vlc, ffmpeg or mplayer. (media files should be audio and video in common formats, images would be nice to have too) ...

Dynamic resize with MPlayer and PyGTK

Hi everyone; I've wrote a piece of code in python and pygtk for an embeded mplayer in a gui. I assume I use GtkSocket and the slave mode of mplayer with the -wid option. But I've got an issue, when the size of my GTK window is smaller than my stream, the stream appears to be cropped. And when the size of my window is bigger than my stre...

How to install ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder, LAME MP3 encoder for Winxp. php version 5.3.0

Hello All Members I am newbie in php.Can any body tell me how i install ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder in Windows XP and php version should be 5.3.0 or Wamp server release July 11 2009/Xamp Server release 2009/12/23. I make search on google and i find tutorial but that tutorial work with previous version of php 5.2.8 . So if so...

What is the command line syntax to embed MPlayer in an app window in OS X?

I know the window ID, and I'm trying stuff like: mplayer -ontop -slave -quiet -wid 471165040 /t.mov mplayer -ontop -slave -quiet --window=471165040 /t.mov but nothing is working. (I know the window ID is correct) Otherwise, mplayer CLI is working great in its own window, just can't get it to play embedded. Can anyone point me to a s...

how to use time out in mplayer?

I am trying to save audio using mplayer from a live http stream. saving audio is successful. If there is no live stream playing it does not exit automatically. Is there any way to set timeout if there is no live stream? code : mplayer -i url -t 00:00:10 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 24 -ar 8000 audio.mp3 Thanks in advance. ...

mplayer slave mode - can't delete files after watching

Hi I'm using mplayer in my C# app running in .NET on Windows and Mono on Linux. I start mplayer using Process.Start and run it in -slave -idle. To play a video, I write to stdin like this: loadfile {filename} When I'm ready to play the next video, I call loadfile again with the new filename. Problem: if I play a video and then somet...

JAVA IPC on Windows

hey all , i want to do the following open a Named pipe using java , and extract the content of that archive (rar / zip /etc..) to a named pipe the run mplayer with the location of that pipe and play the movie , i tried open the IPC in java using this project CLIPC but , my code is freezing in the fifo.openWriter(); line FIFO fifo ...

Dump same network stream to multiple (identical) files

Hi all, The project we're working on requires a stream to be recorded for a defined amount of time and dumped to multiple copies (1 for each user). This process must be done at the time of recording (ie, we can't record a single stream and then duplicate it out for each required copy) and cannot be achieved through access restrictions a...

Python: Parse stream title with mplayer

I'm writing a simple frontend in Python to play and record internet radio channels (e.g. from shoutcast) using mplayer (in a subprocess). When a user clicks a station the following code is run: url = http://77.111.88.131:8010 # only an example cmd = "mplayer %s" % url p = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), shell=False) wait = os.waitpid(p....

Mplayer crash when playing RTSP and disconnect

Hi, I'm using mplayer for playing RTSP streams (Axis IP Camera), and I would like to know how I can prevent mplayer from crashing when the IP cameras are unreachable (network problem, camera is shutdown, etc...). Currently, mplayer crash with this output: MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: free_demuxer - MPlayer crashed by bad ...

Is there a better mplayer command line interface?

I generally prefer to do things on the command line when I can. Mplayer is a great tool for playing all sorts of media, but the command line interface sucks. Some things I'd like to see in a CLI wrapper would include: Clean output - easy to understand, not cluttered by a bunch of stuff that's irrelevant in day-to-day use ID3 informatio...