You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this. First, use Su[...]
If you downloaded a Flash FLV file and want to convert it to an audio or video file, do the following: For audio: ffmpeg -i input.flv -ar 44100 -ab 160 -ac 2 output.mp3 For video: ffmpeg -i input.flv -s 352×288 -b 5[...]
This is a nice trick to easily access information about your multimedia files. Install the mplayer package then add the following to your ~/.bashrc file: idmedia(){ mplayer -identify -frames 0 -ao null -vo null -vc du[...]
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