Created mandag 31 oktober 2016
Install the mplayer package
$ pacman -S mplayer
mplayer keyboard actions
| Key | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Space | Toggle pause/play |
| Backspace | Return to menu when you are using dvdnav |
| Left arrow | Back ten seconds |
| Right arrow | Forward ten seconds |
| Down arrow | Back one minut |
| Up arrow | Forward one minut |
| < | Back in playlist |
| > | Forward in playlist |
| m | Mute sound |
| 9,0 | Volume down/up |
| 1,2 | Adjust contrast |
| 3,4 | Adjust brightness |
| f | Toggle fullscreen |
| o | Toggle OnScreen Display (playtime/ time left etc) |
| v | Toggle subtitle visibility |
| I (big i) | Show filename |
| j | Cycle available subtitles |
| # | Cycle available audio tracks |
Creating and Playing playlists
You can create a playlist by navigating to the directory where the intended files are stored. The run :
$ find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name \*.mkv | sort > playlist
This will create a sorted file called playlist with all the mkv files in the directory.
Change the mkv part if the file format differs. If files extension differs, you can use \*.*
To use the playlist, append the -playlist option :
$ mplayer -playlist playlist
Browser Integration
Mplayer can control the video viewing in your browser. The gecko-mediaplayer package provides this feature for both Firefox and Chromium. The gecko-mediaplayer package depends on gnome-mplayer package, which is a GTK front end for mplayer.
# Install the two packages :
$ pacman -S gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer
Resume from where you last left off
There is a mplayer wrapper which can be invoked whenever you want to resume a move from where you last stopped.
Install the wapper mplayer-resumer (AUR) package and invoke it with
$ mplayer-resumer options path/to/file
Allowing Framedrops
Allowing framedrops will increase fps on slower systems, but at the cost of quality. It'll allow a frame to be dropped here and there. To allow framedrops, run mplayer with the -framedrop option :
$ mplayer -framedrop /path/to/file
Watching streamed links
You can use the -playlist option to play e.g. ASK links
$ mplayer -playlist link-to-stream.asx
Taking screenshots
It is possible to take either a single sc or multiple sc's by appending the -vf screenshot option :
$ mplayer -vf screenshot filename.mkv
This will allow you to press 's' to take a single screenshot, or 'S' to take multiple screenshots until 'S' is pressed again.
The files (PNG) will be stored in the current working directory.