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    Solved mpv couldn't play video, mplayer could

    I thought this was kind of interesting. I had a video that made (just a scene from a movie I watched). On my main workstation it played normally. However, on the Beelink I have, it wouldn't play, but if I used mplayer it was fine. With mpv it just showed a screen of a blur with traces of a...
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    Solved mplayer-1.5.0.20250816_2 fails to build

    libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c:287:45: warning: call to undeclared function 'av_alloc_vdpaucontext'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 287 | avctx->hwaccel_context = vdpc = av_alloc_vdpaucontext(); |...
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    vlc vs mplayer vs mpv vs other?

    I used to use vlc -Z * Looks like VLC has issues upstream so tried mplayer -shuffle * Not too happy there or with gmplayer either So have settled on mpv --shuffle * Main gripe was trying to forward to the next song/video What are some other alternatives I wonder?
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    Slow video playback with mplayer, but mpv works fine

    I have 3 video players installed: 1. vlc - no sounds for a large # of videos downloaded via youtube-dl 2. mplayer - plays all videos I download via youtube-dl, but I run into a slow or choppy video (I'm using nvidia-driver-440 and an nvidia 1050 ti) 3. mpv - this plays just fine with both...
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    Solved Mplayer playlist over SSH.

    I've been having troubles running my playlist with mplayer over ssh. This used to work without any issues for me with the following: ssh -i .ssh/user_key.id_rsa user@host "mplayer -shuffle -playlist /path/to/playlist.txt -af resample=44100,channels=2,format=s16le -ao pcm:file=/dev/stdout...
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