Multi-threaded MPlayer
Posted: 2016-04-23 Filed under: media | Tags: core, cpu, mplayer, multi-thread, profile 1 CommentI want to make MPlayer utilise more than one core. I searched a bit and found a tutorial and a discussion about this. The solution is to run the mplayer executable with the -lavdopts option like this:
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YouTube fullscreen in SeaMonkey
Posted: 2015-11-06 Filed under: media, network | Tags: about:config, fullscreen, html5, seamonkey, video, youtube 3 CommentsRecently, I realised I can no longer watch YouTube videos in fullscreen. The switch to HTML5 is something that I have missed to notice… Now the videos cannot be shown in fullscreen mode. Read the rest of this entry »
Sound over HDMI cable
Posted: 2015-06-10 Filed under: desktop, media, system | Tags: .desktop, alsa, aplay, asoundrc, audio, cable, hdmi, intel, sound Leave a commentMy laptop has an Intel video card and an HDMI port, that I want to use for audio signal output, as well. Unfortunatelly, sound over HDMI does not work out-of-the-box, so I searched for a solution. There are good instructions at the Arch Linux Wiki. Read the rest of this entry »
Quod Libet: an audio player with a XINE backend
Posted: 2015-05-23 Filed under: media | Tags: audio, backend, gst, gstreamer, player, quod libet, xine Leave a commentAn audio player that can use XINE as its backend is Quod Libet. XINE comes with the default Slackware install, and the package you need specifically is xine-lib. Quod Libet is available at SBo, but the version there is quite outdated at the moment. Read the rest of this entry »
Cyrillic in the XMMS playlist
Posted: 2015-04-04 Filed under: desktop, media | Tags: cp1251, cyrillic, encoding, font, terminus, xmms Leave a commentIn the XMMS playlist, the default font for GTK1 does not display correctly Cyrillic file names. A commonly used encoding for Cyrillic text is CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »
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