Mplayer
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A very versatile media player.
Documentation
homepage http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html documentation http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html man mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
Tutorials
mplayer intro https://www.unixmen.com/basic-mplayer-usage-from-command-line/
Neat Tricks
video as wallpaper
# works, supports xcompmgr # see: and https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/97uznk/herbstluftwm_animated_wallpaper/ # pacaur -S xwinwrap-git xwinwrap -ov -fs -- \ mplayer -wid WID \ -quiet -nosound \ -loop 0 `# loop same video indefinitely` \ /ocean_waves.mkv # mplayer ... -loop 0 # cycle same video indefinitely # mplayer ... -shuffle fileA fileB fileC # play provided files in random order # no cli controls, possibly through a socket though?Alternatively, this method plays video as wallpaper, but has issues with compositors (xcompmgr, compton, ..)
It also gets confused when sharing a workspace with another window. Not ideal.# See https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/51hjkn/vlcs_videowallpaper_is_just_a_fullscreen_mode/ mplayer -rootwin -vo xv -ao null -noconsolecontrols -fs /ocean_waves.mkvvideo in ascii