Playing a Youtube video with mpv is very easy, it is also possible to skip to a certain part of the video whenever you wish. Make sure that you have the latest version of Youtube-dl first. sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dlsudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dl Then run this…
Read MorePlay a music file in your terminal with a nice visualization, using this one-liner. This is very nice way to get a simple animation whilst playing a music file. MPV does support a massive amount of playing options, and using a visualization while playing music is another hidden feature. mpv…
Read MoreThis command will display an image in your terminal. Very useful for viewing images without using an external image viewer. mpv –no-config –pause –vo=tct https://stallman.org/rms.jpgmpv –no-config –pause –vo=tct https://stallman.org/rms.jpg Play a movie in your terminal window with mpv. 4.4 Thu Nov 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mpv –no-config –vo=tct fc4.mp44.4 Thu…
Read MorePlay a video in the mpv player and move the video frame partly off the screen. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ mpv dvb://"SBS ONE HD(SBS)" –video-pan-y=-0.2 –video-pan-x=-0.2 This is a more extreme example. Play a video stream and only a small corner of it is visible. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ »…
Read MoreTo encode a section of a movie file to a high-quality webm file, use this simple addon for mpv. Firstly run this command to create a directory to put the lua script. mkdir -p ~/.config/mpv/scriptsmkdir -p ~/.config/mpv/scripts Then download the required script to the directory we created. This is located…
Read MoreThe mpv movie player can play a directory of movies randomly, this is useful if the user wants movies playing randomly in the background. Do it like this. mpv –shuffle /media/jason/Seagate\ Backup\ Plus\ Drive/Movies/**mpv –shuffle /media/jason/Seagate\ Backup\ Plus\ Drive/Movies/** This is the result, a randomly chosen movie from your collection….
Read MoreThis is how to play a Youtube video with mpv. mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjk_W8nTnompv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjk_W8nTno This is very easy to do, it does not work with private videos, but it is a nice slimline way to play HD videos on your Linux machine.
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