Tag Archives: mplayer

mkvmerge + mplayer Sadness Fix

May 22, 2011

I have been having some issues with newer versions of mkvmerge creating files that make mplayer cry. I finally messed around with the options enough to discover what (I think) was the problem. Header compression reduces filesizes of attachments significantly, but there are some compatibility problems with the files that have this option enabled. Here’s what I finally ended up with: mkvmerge -o video.mkv –default-language eng \ –compression -1:none –default-duration 0:41.708ms \ –nalu-size-length 0:4 -A video.264 –compression -1:none \ audio.dts [...]

SMPlayer, Lirc, and IRExec on Ubuntu Karmic

November 7, 2009

I used to use lirc with mplayer to allow my Packard Bell crappy remote to work awesomely, but I have since lost that configuration and switched to smplayer, since it’s awesome. Today, I figured out how to control smplayer using similar means.

Ubuntu MPlayer Timing

November 4, 2006

So I got tired of seeing the max-user-freq messages today. Add this to /etc/sysctl.conf: # Timing Correction dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024 Reboot and problems solved.