Free mplayer video thumbnailer software for linux

Want to watch Youtube video, but you dont have Flash plugin? (ex: gnu/linux ppc os), so try this great script to watch STREAMING VIDEOS from Youtube! You dont need to download video on your disk, you can stream directly the FLV videos from Youtube!

MPlayer Youtube Video Streamer lets you watch YouTube videos even if you dont have the flash plugin.

Usage: myvs [options] video_url

Options:

-h, --help print this help text and exit
-v, --version print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME account username
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD account password
-o FILE, --output=FILE output video file name
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --stream do not download video, but stream directly by mplayer
-C, --cache set a cache of 300k, for slow connection
-c, --cycle cycle 20 times while youtube redirect to vo.llnwd.net (that streams .flv)
-t, --title use title in file name
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-O, --streamonly Force the script to stream only, if it doesnt find a valid stream server simply quit

Who to use it with Firefox:

Now I will explain you how to get it working with Firefox,

First we need a Firefox extension called: Lanchy,
this extension give us the ability to open directly from Firefox Youtube video on youtube webpage (not on all webpages that have a youtube video!

You ALWAYS need the youtube videos webpage! After you have installed Launchy (from firefoxs addon site), restart Firefox, now it will ask you to insert a Launchys button on your toolbar (DO IT! so open Youtube videos will be very simply), after that go on the preferences/option of this extension and uncheck the option: "search automatically programs".

Now copy the "launchy.xml" file that you found on the package and copy it on your directory:
".mozilla/firefox/YOUR_ID.default/chrome/" , after copied it, please dont forget to edit it with your myvs.py COMPLETE PATH, and add or delete oppurtune option to pass to the script.

Now restart again firefox an watch if it recognise the command (by pressing the G).

Go on youtube.com, open a video webpage, click on the G button-> Open in Mplayer Youtube Video Streamer.

Thunar Thumbnailers is a plugin for Thunar file manager, that can generate thumbnails of files inside the file manager.
Thunar uses external utilities - so called thumbnailers - to generate previews of certain files. Thunar ships with thumbnailers to generate previews of image and font files and can automatically use available GNOME thumbnailers if it was build with support for gconf.
However, even then, there are several file types for which no thumbnailer exists. The thunar-thumbnailers project provides additional thumbnailers for Thunar, that also cover less common file formats.
Supported Formats
Thunar-thumnbnailers generates thumbnails for the following formats:
- EPS
- Postscript
- Fig (.fig)
- LaTeX (requires tetex)
- Raw Digital Camera Images (requires dcraw)
- Grace (requires grace)
And in the near future, hopefully:
- Video files (using ffmpegthumbnailer)
- Icon files (.ico)
Enhancements:
- Added an option --disable-update-mime-database to configure to make life easier for packagers

MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library).
Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too!
Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.
MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.
Main features:
- (S)VCD (Super Video CD)
- CDRwins .bin image file
- DVD, including encrypted DVD
- MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB)
- RIFF AVI file format
- ASF/WMV/WMA format
- QT/MOV/MP4 format
- RealAudio/RealVideo format
- Ogg/OGM files
- VIVO format
- FLI format
- NuppelVideo format
- yuv4mpeg format
- FILM (.cpk) format
- RoQ format
- PVA format
- Matroska
- NSV - Nullsoft Streaming Video
- streaming via http, RTP, RTSP, mms, mmst, mpst, sdp
- TV
Supported Video and Audio Codecs:
- MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
- MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
- Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
- Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
- RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
- RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs
- DV video
- 3ivx
- Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
- Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
- VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
- MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
- FLI/FLC
- HuffYUV
- various old simple RLE-like formats
- MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
- AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
- AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
- WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
- WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
- RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
- RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
- QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries)
- Ogg Vorbis audio
- VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
- alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio format

I like using Amarok for managing my podcasts but I wasnt able to play my video podcasts.

Amarok Video Player adds a PlayVideo/Play menu item to the context menu which runs KMPlayer.

Edit the script to change KMplayer to another video player.

PlayStation Portable Video Converter (PSPVC) is a FFMPEG front-end to convert video files for the PSP. PlayStation Portable Video Converter allow you to queue severals conversions with different parameters for each.

Formats:

* MPEG4/SP (all firmware)
* H264/AVC (firmware 2.0+)

Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed is a widget to embed the MPlayer media player into GTK+ applications.

SYNOPSIS
use Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed;

my $window = Gtk2::Window->new;

my $embed = Gtk2::MPlayerEmbed->new;

$window->add($embed);

$window->show_all;

$embed->play("movie.mpg");

Gtk2->main;

Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed allows you to embed a video player into your applications. It uses the XEMBED system to allow the mplayer program to insert its window into your application.

OBJECT HIERARCHY
Glib::Object
+----Gtk2::Object
+----Gtk2::Widget
+----Gtk2::Container
+----Gtk2::Socket
+----Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed

PROPERTIES
The following properties are accessible through the standard Glib get() and set() methods:

mplayer_path

This is the path to the mplayer program. This is /usr/bin/mplayer by default.
args

This is a string containing the command line arguments passed to mplayer (no default).

loaded

This is a boolean value that indicates whether the mplayer program is currently running.

state

This is an enumeration (described by Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed::PlayingState) that indicates the state of the player. state may be one of: stopped, playing, paused. It is stopped at startup.

METHODS

$embed->play([$content]);

This method has two behaviours: if the the loaded property is true (a video stream has been loaded), and the state property is paused, then it will resume playing the stream. If loaded is true but the stream is not paused, then the method will carp() and return undef.

If load is false, and the $content argument is defined, then the player will attempt to load and play the stream identified by $content, which may be a path to a file, the URL of a network resource, or a "meta-URI" such as dvd:// or dvb://.

$embed->pause;

This method will pause the current video stream. If the stream is not playing, this method will carp() and return undef.

$embed->resume;

This is just a convenience wrapper around pause(). The pause() method is really a toggle, and two subsequent calls to pause() will pause and then resume the stream, so this method exists to disambiguate.

$embed->stop;

This method tells mplayer to quit, and resets the widgets internal state. Before loading another video stream with play(), use this method first.

$embed->tell_slave($something);

This method sends a command to the mplayer slave process. The available commands are documented in the mplayer-slave-spec.txt file in the source distribution.