Posts Tagged “mplayer”

How to watch DVDs on your Wii

Speculation on fan blogs about an upgrade to play DVDs on the Wii Console has been persistent for as long as I’ve been reading them, but it seems doubtful Nintendo will ever add this ability. What are we to do? If you can’t get official support for something that the hardware can probably do, why [...]

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Screensaver vs Movies

If you use mplayer to play your movies then add this line to ~/.mplayer/config to turn off Xscreensaver. Much better than hitting CTRL every few minutes! # Write your default config options here! stop-xscreensaver=1

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How to convert from WMA to MP3

Converting Windows Media Audio files into MP3 format is rather easy with mplayer and lame. My car stereo plays MP3s, so WMA is of no use to me! This code is based on this script but I have to wonder why they overwrote the wma file? Piping the output of mplayer into lame is left [...]

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