On Tuesday 16 June 2020 04:33:57 Mike Bird wrote:

On Tue June 16 2020 01:18:55 Gene Heskett wrote:

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Greetings all;

There is an .mp4 on the u-sd card that comes with the creality ender3 pro 3d printer that I'd like to play.

Thanks & Cheers, Gene Heskett

mpv from Debian should works fine, or mplayer2 if you're still running a mesozoic version of Debian.

--Mike

stretch, mpv runs, but has only a drop a file on it to play, no menu to go looking for a file. The usual drag copy to highlight the name, then a MMB paste to its screen doesn't work, so how do I play it? What a screwup this is.

... I finally made it work from the command line by enclosing the filename in dbl-quotes. Otherwise it try's to open each word in the windows style filename which is full of spaces.

Crazy, and it sure as tootin isn't an operating improvement, nothing points me to mpv to play an mp4. mpv does have one, I just found it thank you Mike, but there ought to be an alias setup that gets you mpv's man page when you type man mp4, and get nothing. 'scuse the rant, but I've been poking at this for days.

Thanks Mike.

Cheers, Gene Heskett

On Tuesday 16 June 2020 09:33:10 Pisini, John wrote:

In Linux at the command line you need to escape a special character which a space is with a slash. So for a file called 'this is my mp4.mp4' you would write 'this\ is\ my\ mp4.mp4' This does work with Bash's auto fill

Maybe, but "" around the whole thing is easier.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:23 AM Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net

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On Tuesday 16 June 2020 04:33:57 Mike Bird wrote:

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On Tue June 16 2020 01:18:55 Gene Heskett wrote:

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Greetings all;

There is an .mp4 on the u-sd card that comes with the creality ender3 pro 3d printer that I'd like to play.

Which turned out to be assemble instructions sped up and ending as the last screw is being installed. And because the model has done it before, glosses over some of the time killers their written instructions gloss over. One thing it seriously needs is 4 more holes drilled in the uprights to positively locate the x travel bar dead level as its trolley screws are being tightened.

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Thanks & Cheers, Gene Heskett

mpv from Debian should works fine, or mplayer2 if you're still running a mesozoic version of Debian.

--Mike

stretch, mpv runs, but has only a drop a file on it to play, no menu to go looking for a file. The usual drag copy to highlight the name, then a MMB paste to its screen doesn't work, so how do I play it? What a screwup this is.

... I finally made it work from the command line by enclosing the filename in dbl-quotes. Otherwise it try's to open each word in the windows style filename which is full of spaces.

Crazy, and it sure as tootin isn't an operating improvement, nothing points me to mpv to play an mp4. mpv does have one, I just found it thank you Mike, but there ought to be an alias setup that gets you mpv's man page when you type man mp4, and get nothing. 'scuse the rant, but I've been poking at this for days.

Thanks Mike.

Cheers, Gene Heskett

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On Tuesday 16 June 2020 08:23:29 am Gene Heskett wrote:

On Tuesday 16 June 2020 04:33:57 Mike Bird wrote:

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On Tue June 16 2020 01:18:55 Gene Heskett wrote:

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Greetings all;

There is an .mp4 on the u-sd card that comes with the creality ender3 pro 3d printer that I'd like to play.

Thanks & Cheers, Gene Heskett

mpv from Debian should works fine, or mplayer2 if you're still running a mesozoic version of Debian.

--Mike

stretch, mpv runs, but has only a drop a file on it to play, no menu to go looking for a file. The usual drag copy to highlight the name, then a MMB paste to its screen doesn't work, so how do I play it? What a screwup this is.

... I finally made it work from the command line by enclosing the filename in dbl-quotes. Otherwise it try's to open each word in the windows style filename which is full of spaces.

Crazy, and it sure as tootin isn't an operating improvement, nothing points me to mpv to play an mp4. mpv does have one, I just found it thank you Mike, but there ought to be an alias setup that gets you mpv's man page when you type man mp4, and get nothing. 'scuse the rant, but I've been poking at this for days.

Thanks Mike.

Hi Gene,

SMPlayer is the usual front end to mpv. mpv as you've found is, pretty much, just a backend engine, but right click, open with will usually work with it.

SMPlayer came with my distribution, the painful way is here: https://www.smplayer.info/en/downloads

Best, Michael

# apt-cache show smplayer Package: smplayer Version: 20.4.2~ds0-0.2~mx17+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Steven Pusser stevep@mxlinux.org Installed-Size: 4696 Depends: mpv (>= 0.6.2) | mplayer, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.7.0), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.6), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.6.0~rc), libqt5network5 (>= 5.6), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.6), libstdc++6 (>= 5), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), smplayer-themes, smplayer-l10n Homepage: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ Priority: optional Section: video Filename: pool/main/s/smplayer/smplayer_20.4.2~ds0-0.2~mx17+1_amd64.deb Size: 2007386 SHA256: 6e637a8aaf28f17daabe86a95b7d0eacf2823ff920a346a38091262dc40ac26c SHA1: a358f9801a9a543283a43ac2b45d5e3460accfda MD5sum: 4ab0cd0c1343baa5ba16b395810c1c2f Description-en: Complete front-end for MPlayer and mpv Qt5 front-end for mplayer and forks, with basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume... Description-md5: 4e2c38a53c350d4cc3c7c631b8bc3586 Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org

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On Tuesday 16 June 2020 09:55:16 Felix Miata wrote:

Gene Heskett composed on 2020-06-16 09:23 (UTC-0400):

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Crazy, and it sure as tootin isn't an operating improvement, nothing points me to mpv to play an mp4. mpv does have one, I just found it thank you Mike, but there ought to be an alias setup that gets you mpv's man page when you type man mp4, and get nothing.

apropos <string>

apropos mp4 nothing appropriate

I rest my case

Cheers, Gene Heskett

On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:23 AM, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:

On Tuesday 16 June 2020 04:33:57 Mike Bird wrote:

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On Tue June 16 2020 01:18:55 Gene Heskett wrote:

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Greetings all; There is an .mp4 on the u-sd card that comes with the creality ender3 pro 3d printer that I'd like to play. Thanks & Cheers, Gene Heskett

mpv from Debian should works fine, or mplayer2 if you're still running a mesozoic version of Debian. --Mike

stretch, mpv runs, but has only a drop a file on it to play, no menu to go looking for a file. The usual drag copy to highlight the name, then a MMB paste to its screen doesn't work, so how do I play it? What a screwup this is.

If you want an easy to use auto configuring (menu entry and file associations) GUI there are probably better choices, e.g. trinity-kmplayer.

I never open audio/video programs, I just click on the file in Konqueror. If that doesn't work with the program you want to use, you have to setup a file association. There are numerous ways to do that and I'd start by right clicking on the file and selecting Open with. If you don't see the program right away browse to the Multimedia folder. If you still cannot find it, try typing 'program name %U' or %F, e.g. "mpv %U" at the top, If that works do it again and check remember at the bottom.

I use plain old mplayer (mplayer -fs %U) and a remote (or hot keys, no GUI) for all audio/video playback.

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On Tuesday 16 June 2020 20:41:56 Mike Bird wrote:

Hi Gene,

If you prefer not to use the command line, what happens when you double click on your MP4 in konqueror?

Its not my fav browser, so I didn't think to check it. My bad.

It depends on how your system is configured. Mine plays the video in noatun - not my favorite video play but it works.

--Mike

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Cheers, Gene Heskett